01 // Project Thesis
The Problem of Jurisdictional Volatility
International maritime and transport regulations are updated continuously across hundreds of overlapping jurisdictions. For logistics firms and autonomous vessel operators, manual interpretation of these shifts creates significant lag in operational compliance, leading to legal friction and increased insurance risk.
Hypothesis
"Zero-shot LLM extraction can transform unstructured regulatory updates into machine-readable operational directives without the need for jurisdiction-specific fine-tuning."
{
"authority": "IMO",
"directive": "Cyber_Risk_Mgt",
"compliance_target": "SMS",
"effective_date": "2021-01-01"
}02 // Research Methodology
Our laboratory processed a diverse corpus of 14,000 regulatory nodes to test the limits of cross-jurisdictional zero-shot interpretation.
Dataset Collection
Regulatory feeds from IMO (International Maritime Org), EU Transport Law bulletins, and bilateral maritime treaties.
Cross-Language Parsing
Evaluation of extraction accuracy across EN (English), FR (French), DE (German), and ES (Spanish) texts.
Schema Enforcement
Validation of extraction outputs against strict Operational Directive schemas to ensure machine-readability.
Benchmark Comparison
Accuracy and latency comparison vs. legacy rule-based NLP and human legal analyst teams.
03 // Findings
| Test Category | Zero-Shot Accuracy | Human Bench |
|---|---|---|
| Directive Extraction | 98.2% | 99.1% |
| Jurisdictional Mapping | 94.7% | 96.4% |
| Date/Compliance Deadlines | 99.4% | 98.8% |
While structural extraction accuracy reached 98%, primary failure modes occurred in jurisdictional override clauses where a regional law (e.g., individual EU member state) contradicted an international treaty within the same document snippet.
The models demonstrated exceptional performance in amendment detection—accurately identifying specific line shifts in regulatory updates from previous versions without requiring historical context in the prompt.
04 // Strategic Impact
Shipping Logistics
Real-time routing adjustments based on localized maritime compliance shifts.
Autonomous Vessels
Dynamic boundary-law integration for machine-led navigation units.
Aviation Compliance
Accelerated airspace access through automated flight-path regulatory review.
Risk Dashboards
Global regulatory heatmaps showing volatility patterns in trade corridors.
// Lab Investigation Status: Active // Technical Partnership Invited
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