Apparatus and method for automated evaluation of technical standards relevant to a product

1 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium with instructions executed by a processor to:

utilize natural language processing operations to produce technology standard document segments from a technology standard document;

convert the technology standard document segments to a knowledge graph characterizing relationships between the technology standard document segments;

utilize structure of the knowledge graph, regulatory compliance rules and product information to derive large language model prompts for technology standard document segments;

use output from the large language model to form probability ratings of requirements to test the product.

2 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the natural language processing operations include utilization of regular expressions, use of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) models, tokenization techniques and string manipulation.

3 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the natural language processing operations process a table of contents to link table of contents parameters with textual clauses within the technology standard document.

4 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 3 further comprising instructions executed by the processor to form a data frame, where each row in the data frame includes a table of contents parameter and associated textual clause.

5 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 4 further comprising instructions executed by the processor to add a column to a row in the data frame to specify an external source identified in the associated textual clause and thereby form an augmented data frame.

6 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5 further comprising instructions executed by the processor to form the knowledge graph from the augmented data frame.