Connectionists: AI4LEGAL2020 - CFP

[Eleni Tsalapati]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Legal
Documents (AI4LEGAL2020)
In the context of the International Semantic Web Conference 2020 (ISWC 2020)
Virtual Event
November 2 or 3, 2020
http://ai.di.uoa.gr/#iswc20-workshop

Legislation applies to every aspect of people’s living and evolves
continuously building a huge network of
interlinked legal documents. Therefore, it is important for a government to
offer services that make legislation
easily accessible to the citizens aiming at informing them, enabling them
to defend their rights, or to use
legislation as part of their job. It is equally important to have law
professionals (lawyers, judges, etc.)
access legislation in ways that allow them to do their job easily (e.g.,
they might need to be able to see
the evolution of a law over time). Finally, in the age of the Web, it is
important to enable software developers
to develop applications for citizens and law professionals easily, by
connecting the available laws with other
kinds of government or private sector information. Towards this direction,
there are already many countries in
Europe and elsewhere that have computerized the legislative process by
developing platforms for archiving legislation
documents and offering on-line access to them using standards such as Akoma
Ntoso (aka LegalDocML) which is an OASIS
standard, the European standard CEN-MetaLex, the European Legislation
Identifier, the European Case Law Identifier etc.
There also private companies (e.g., ROSS Intelligence, LexisNexis, RAVEL,
LexMachina etc.) that specialize on providing
digital services for law, case law, compliance, contracts, etc. The vision
of the AI4LEGAL international workshop is
to bring together Artificial Intelligence researchers and practitioners to
work on the problem of digitization of
legislation and legal documents in today’s interconnected world.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Natural language processing techniques for legal documents
-Legal knowledge graphs
-Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques for legal documents
-Explainable AI for legal documents
-Linked data for legal documents
-Machine learning techniques for legal documents
-Scalable deep learning techniques for legal text analytics
-Question answering for legal documents
-Chatbots for legal documents
-Language resources for digital legal document research and development
-National or international initiatives and digital platforms for legislation
-Multilingualism
-Specific application areas (legislation, judicial decisions, case law,
compliance, contracts)

Submissions
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Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of long or short papers.
Long papers should be at most 16 pages
including references. Short papers should be of at most 8 pages including
references. All contributions should be
prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop
submission site.

-All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4legal2020
-All submissions must be in English.
-Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture
 Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see
Springer’s Author Instructions.
-Accepted papers will be published as AI4LEGAL workshop proceedings. At
least one author of each accepted paper must register
 for the workshop to present the paper.
-The proceedings of the workshop will be made publicly available before the
workshop on the
 platform http://ceur-ws.org/


Important Dates
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Activities                                                |Due Date
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Papers due                                           |August 17, 2020
Notification of acceptance or rejection |September 11, 2020
Camera ready paper due                     |September 25, 2020

All deadlines are midnight Athens time (GMT+2).

Workshop Format
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The workshop will follow the traditional format (invited talks,
presentations by paper authors, questions from the audience)
but will encourage discussion and identification of open issues by giving
enough time for questions after presentations.

Venue
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There is no physical venue. The workshop will be held on-line like the rest
of ISWC 2020.

Program Chairs
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Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (
G.Antoniou at hud.ac.uk, https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/grigoris-antoniou)
Guido Governatori, Data 61 CSIRO, Australia (
Guido.Governatori at data61.csiro.au,
http://www.governatori.net/research/index.html)
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and
Leader of Nomothesia project, Greece (koubarak at di.uoa.gr,
http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~koubarak/)
Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (
emontiel at fi.upm.es,
http://mayor2.dia.fi.upm.es/oeg-upm/index.php/en/teachers/52-emontiel/)
Eleni Tsalapati, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (
etsalapati at lboro.ac.uk)

Program Committee
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Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Karim Benyekhlef, Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Montreal, Canada
Ilias Chalkidis, Athens University of Economics and Business and NCSR
Demokritos, Greece
Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, United States of America
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta and ROSS Intelligence, Canada
Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company, Austria
George Karvelis, Ministry of Digital Governance and European Public Law
Organization, Greece
John P. McCrae, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
Marc van Opijnen, Publications Office of the Netherlands and European Case
Law Identifier expert group, The Netherlands
Jeff Z. Pan, The University of Aberdeen, UK
Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Pompeu Casanovas Romeu, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and La
Trobe University, Australia
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Clara Smith, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Martin Theobald, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Leon van de Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
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