JURIX

Call for Papers of the 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020)

— JURIX 2020 has moved entirely to an online format —

http://jurix2020.law.muni.cz/

— Topics —
For more than 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems, under the auspices of The JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge systems, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications. We welcome submissions on a wide variety of topics including, but not limited to, the following:

I – Theory and foundations
Contributions to the theory and interdisciplinary foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal and forensic domain. Papers should demonstrate (formal) validity, novelty and significance of the work.

– Representation languages and formalisms for legal knowledge;
– Models of legal and ethical knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values, procedures and society models;
– Models of legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions, including normative systems, and norm-governed societies;
– Methods and algorithms for performing legal inference, including argumentation;
– Methods and algorithms for designing legal data analytics and predictive models.

II – Technology
Contributions to the technological advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems in the legal and forensic domain. Papers should demonstrate quality, novelty and significance of the work, and evaluate results.

– Technology for expressing the structure and connections of legal texts and rules, including legislative, judicial, parliamentary, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
– Technology for expressing the semantics of legal information and knowledge, including Legal Open Data, Legal Big Data, Knowledge Graph Database;
– Technology for the large scale analysis of legal knowledge and information;
– Technology for the verification and validation of legal knowledge systems, including checking compliance systems;
– Technology for digital-rights management, licensing, access policies and authorisation, including issues in social networks;
– Technology for managing privacy, cybersecurity and digital identity issues, including blockchain methods;
– Technology for managing eCommerce, fraud detection and new market platforms issues;
– Technology for natural language processing and annotation of legal texts;
– Technology for social simulations in the legal domain and for democratic innovation;
– Technology for information retrieval over large bodies of legal texts and legal data;
– Support and methodologies for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge in information systems.

III – Applications
Implementations of AI & Law technology in real world systems. Papers should demonstrate added value, novelty and significance of the work, and if possible, validate the described system and evaluate (potential) impact.

– Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, publishing and implementation;
– Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
– Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
– Support for police and law enforcement activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
– Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
– Support for business, economic transactions, and other private parties in managing regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
– Support for private parties in using alternative forms of dispute resolution, particularly online;
– Support for governance and citizens in enhancing participation, for a better communication (e.g fake news) and democracy (e.g. political data in social media);
– Support for education by using legal information systems in a teaching environment.

— Long, Short, and Demo Paper submission —
The deadline for paper submission is Sunday, September 13, 2020.

The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press in their series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA). Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System in PDF format:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2020

All submissions should be formatted using the styles and guidelines in the IOS Press Instructions for Authors.

There are three categories of papers. Please indicate the category of your paper when you submit the paper to Easychair.

** Long papers **
These are reports of well-developed and original research. An accepted long paper scores well in terms of relevance, originality, technical quality, significance, literature review, presentation, reviewer’s confidence, and overall evaluation. These should not exceed 10 pages. A paper which is not accepted as a long paper may be recommended by reviewers as a short paper.

** Short papers **
Authors can submit short descriptions of preliminary results or an innovative idea. These papers should not exceed 4 pages.

** Demo papers **
Authors can submit short descriptions of a system. These papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors of demo papers should be willing to share (a screencast of) the demo privately with the reviewers, if so requested.

— Double Submission —
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except to JURISIN 2020. Papers being submitted both to JURIX 2020 and JURISIN 2020 must note this on the title page, and a paper to be presented at JURIX 2020 must be withdrawn from JURISIN 2020 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors. Failure to follow this policy will result in the paper not being included in the proceedings of JURIX 2020.

— Important dates —
Abstract submission deadline: 6 September 2020 (recommended)
Paper (short and long) submission deadline: 13 September 2020
Demo submission deadline: 13 September 2020
Notification of acceptance: 12 October 2020
Camera-ready deadline: 23 October 2020
Conference: 9 – 11 December 2020

— Organization —

Programme Chair:
– Serena Villata, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S, France

Organising co-chairs:
– Jakub Harasta, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
– Petr Kremen, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

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Serena Villata
CNRS researcher, HDR
http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~villata

Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S, France

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Call for Participation

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ICAIL 2019 – The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

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Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Montreal, Canada, June 17 to June 21, 2019

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ICAIL 2019, the foremost international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law, will take place in Montreal, Canada, at the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the University of Montreal from June 17 to June 21, 2019. The conference is organized biennially by the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, in cooperation with AAAI and ACM SIGAI.

Registration is now open at https://icail2019-cyberjustice.com/registration/.

The invited speakers include Prof. Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), co-recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award.

There will be paper presentations on a wide range of topics in AI & Law, including machine learning applied to the legal domain, formal models of legal reasoning, innovative AI applications for the legal domain and ethical issues of AI in the legal domain.

The workshops cover a wide range of related topics, including AI applications for practice (administrative, legal), explainable AI and information extraction from legal texts.

Program Chair – Floris Bex (Utrecht University & Tilburg University) – f.j.bex@uu.nl

Local Chair – Karim Benyekhlef (University of Montreal) – karim.benyekhlef@umontreal.ca

Local Organiser – Karima Smouk (University of Montreal) – karima.smouk@umontreal.ca

Secretary/Treasurer – Anne Gardner (Palo Alto, CA, USA) – gardner@cs.stanford.edu

Call for Participation

31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

(JURIX 2018)

Groningen (The Netherlands), 12-14 december 2018

http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl

 

For more than 30 years, the JURIX conference has provided an international forum for research on the intersection of Law, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems, under the auspices of the JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

This year, out of 73 submissions we accepted seventeen full papers and eleven short papers. We have 6 workshops, a doctoral consortium and a hackathon.

It is encouraging to see that the contributions cover all aspects of this diverse field: theoretical, focused on a better understanding of argumentation, legal reasoning, norms and legal knowledge modelling (e.g. ontologies and rules); empirical, targeted to extracting knowledge form legal texts using machine learning or NLP techniques and to visualise it in the best manner for the end user; and papers describing practical applications.

More information, including a list of accepted papers, can be found at the conference website: http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl/

Invited speakers

Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Jeroen van den Hoven (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Important dates

Early registration deadline: 3 December 2018
Hackathon submission Deadline: 10 November 2018
Deadline for workshop and doctoral consortium submissions: 14 November 2018
Workshops, hackathon and doctoral consortium: 12 December 2018
Main conference: 13 & 14 December 2018

Organisation

Program Chair:
– Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Organising co-chairs:
– Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
– Henry Prakken, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen & Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
– Bart Verheij, Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Contact and administration:
– Sarah van Wouwe (s.k.van.wouwe@rug.nl)

Conference web page: http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ArgDiaP WORKSHOP: MET-ARG 2
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 15 Sept
2018

The 2nd MET-ARG workshop, devoted to Argumentation & Evidence, aims to
provide a space for exchange of methodological ideas concerning the
research on argumentation related to evidence and proof. The workshop is
chaired by Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
and Tomasz Żurek, Marie Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
https://sites.google.com/site/argdiapen/met-arg/met-arg-2018

Invited speaker: Thomas F. Gordon,
MET-ARG will publish post-proceedings in Journal of Applied Logics –
IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications.

Extended abstract submission deadline: 06 July
Early-bird rate by August 10th: 100 PLN (around 24 EUR)

Programme Committee :

Amalia Amaya (Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
Michał Araszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Kevin Ashley (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Katie Atkinson (University of Liverpool, UK)
Floris Bex (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Katarzyna Budzynska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & University of
Dundee, UK)
Marcello Ceci (University College of Cork, Ireland)
Federico Constantini (University of Udine, Italy)
Christian Dahlman (Lund University, Sweden)
Giovanni Damele (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Tom van Engers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Eveline Feteris (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Dov Gabbay (King’s College London, UK)
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
Matthias Grabmair (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Jaap Hage (University of Maastricht, Netherlands)
Jeroen Keppens (King’s College London, UK)
Marcin Koszowy (University of Bialystok, Poland)
Fabrizio Macagno (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Anne Ruth Mackor (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Krzysztof Płeszka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
Giovanni Sartor (University of Bologna, Italy)
Burkhard Schäfer (University of Edinbourgh, UK)
Jaromír Šavelka (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Giovanni Tuzet (Bocconi University, Italy)
Mariusz Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Bart Verheij (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Vern Walker (Hofstra University, USA)
Douglas Walton (University of Windsor, Canada)
Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Tomasz Żurek (Marie Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)