<div dir="ltr">[apologies for cross-posting
]<br> <br>CALL FOR PAPERS:
<font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Workshop</span> on <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Legal</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Analytics</span> and <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Mining</span> (<span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">LeDAM</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span>) </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In conjunction with ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (<span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">CIKM</span>) <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Turin, Italy | <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aQJ">22nd October <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Website : <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/legaldam2018/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr>legaldam2018/</a></span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Legal</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> is the subarea of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> applied to <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> texts, such as legislation, case law, patents, and scholarly works. The broad goals of the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">LeDAM</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">workshop</span> are: </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- to promote research in <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">analytics</span> by fostering collaboration between the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> practitioners and the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> research community at large, </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- to improve awareness among the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> community about the state of the art models, techniques and algorithms developed by the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> community that can potentially benefit the problems, and </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- to identify new research opportunities in <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> that arise from <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> applications.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite academic and industrial/governmental researchers and <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> professionals to come together, present and discuss research results, use cases, innovative ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from applications of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> in the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> domain.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Topics of interest ===</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are interested to receive paper submissions on all aspects of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span>. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. Applications of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span>, machine learning and natural language processing techniques for the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> domain, for tasks such as summarization of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> document, precedence retrieval, argument <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span>, <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> text classification, and so on</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. Answering natural language queries (primarily in layman language) with <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> information</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. Discovery of electronically stored information for <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> applications (eDiscovery)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Data</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">mining</span> and Information retrieval from patents, contracts, and other types of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> documents</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5. <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Legal</span> knowledge representation, including <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> ontologies, knowledge graphs and common sense knowledge</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6. Automated information extraction from <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> databases and texts</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7. Conceptual and model-based <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> information retrieval</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8. Applications of neural networks and deep learning techniques on <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">data</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">9. Modelling norms and <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> reasoning for multi-agent systems</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10. Modelling negotiation and contract formation</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">11. Online dispute resolution</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">12. Intelligent support systems for the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> domain</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">13. Formal and computational models of <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> reasoning, including argumentation, evidential reasoning, <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">legal</span> interpretation, and decision making</span></font></p><font size="2"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Paper submissions ===</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All papers must be submitted in PDF in ACM sigconf format (<a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" target="_blank">https://www.acm.org/publicati<wbr>ons/proceedings-template</a>). All papers must be written in English. We will consider three types of papers:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Full papers, describing completed works relevant to the theme (8-10 pages)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Short papers, describing preliminary ideas or work (4-6 pages)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Position/Vision papers, describing novel and practically important problems (2 pages)</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and the accepted papers will be included in the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">workshop</span> proceedings that will be published online on CEUR (<a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" target="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/</a>).</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">workshop</span> (as per rules of the conference) and present the paper at the <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">workshop</span>.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Important dates ===</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission deadline: <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aQJ">*July 17, <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018* (EXTENDED)</span></span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notifications of acceptance: <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aQJ">August 15, <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span></span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera ready deadline: <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aQJ">August 27, <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span></span></span> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Workshop</span>: <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aQJ">October 22, <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All times are <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-m_7129228528327573397gmail-aQJ">23:59</span></span> in Anywhere-on-Earth timezone. <br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*The authors who have already submitted may consider resubmission if necessary.*</span></font></p><font size="2"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">===Invited Talks===</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Giovanni Sartor,  European University Institute, Italy</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin, Italy</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(253,252,250);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Adam Zachary Wyner, Swansea University, United Kingdom</span></font></span></p><font size="2"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Technical Program Committee ===</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Adam Wyner, Swansea University, Swansea, UK</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Charles K. Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">David Lewis, Dave Lewis, Brainspace (A Cyxtera Business), USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Girish Keshav Palshikar, Tata Consultancy Services, India</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeroen Keppens, King’s College London, UK</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Karl Branting, MITRE Corporation, USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Matthias Grabmair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maura Grossman, University of Waterloo, Canada</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mossab Bagdouri, Walmart Labs, USA</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora, Portugal</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prasenjit Majumder, DAIICT, India</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">William Webber, William Webber Consulting, Australia</span></font></p><font size="2"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Organizing Committee ===</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arindam Pal, TCS Research and Innovation, India (<a href="http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~arindamp/" target="_blank">http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/<wbr>~arindamp/</a>)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arnab Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (<a href="https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/arnabb/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/us<wbr>ers/arnabb/</a>) </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indrajit Bhattacharya, TCS Research and Innovation, India (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/indrajitb/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site<wbr>/indrajitb/</a>)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kripabandhu Ghosh,  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (<a href="https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/kripa/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/us<wbr>ers/kripa/</a>)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lipika Dey, TCS Research and Innovation, India (<a href="http://sites.tcs.com/blogs/research-and-innovation/author/dr-lipika-dey" target="_blank">http://sites.tcs.com/blogs/re<wbr>search-and-innovation/author/d<wbr>r-lipika-dey</a>)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium (<a href="https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~sien.moens/" target="_blank">https://people.cs.kuleuven.be<wbr>/~sien.moens/</a>)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saptarshi Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (<a href="http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~saptarshi/" target="_blank">http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~sapt<wbr>arshi/</a>) </span></font></p><font size="2"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For details, see <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/legaldam2018/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr>legaldam2018/</a></span></font></p><font size="2"><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Kind Regards,</span></span></span><br><br><div style="text-align:left"><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span><p><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-variant:small-caps;color:black">Kripabandhu Ghosh</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span>Co-organizer</p><p><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">LeDAM</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">Workshop</span></p><p><span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">CIKM</span> <span class="m_-1948957789993030649gmail-il">2018</span></p></div></font></div>