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December 10th, 2008 (Faculty of Law, University of Florence)

December 13th, 2008 (Faculty of Law, University of Florence)


WORKSHOP ON LEGISLATIVE XML 2008 (LXML-2008)
the Law in the Semantic Web and beyond

 

Organizers:

  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam
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  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam
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Audience: Academics, public administrations, publishers, companies in the field of IT and Law

Format: Paper presentations followed by discussion

Background:
Increasingly, legal documents are available electronically, but in a great variety of formats, published by different organizations, in different countries, jurisdictions, legal traditions and languages. They use different ways to refer internally and externally to other (legal) documents, their versioning information and other metadata differ, if present at all, etc. This makes it very hard to design and build generic software that enables access and provides services based on these sources. Semantic Web technology seems the obvious vehicle to tackle these problems.

This workshop wants to bring together people working on applying Semantic Web technology to solve practical and theoretical problems in the (para)legal field.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Specific representation formalisms or standards for the legal field based on Semantic Web standards and technology (XML, URI’s, RDF, OWL, etc.)
  • Legal Ontologies and applications using them
  • Metadata for sources of law
  • Conceptualizations of the domain of legal drafting and its products
  • Web 2.0 applications in the legal domain
  • Models of processes inside sources of law
  • Mashup in the legal field, content aggregation, integrating legacy databases, etc.
  • eGovernment as Web services (e.g. based on WSML, OWL-S, WSDL)

Time Schedule:

Deadline submission position papers: 16th November 2008
Notification of acceptance: 23rd November 2008
Papers should be submitted in pdf format (maximum of 5000 words) through the Easychair Conference Management System, at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lxml2008

Proceedings of the workshop will be available at the conference. We intend to arrange for further publication after the workshop.

 


WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORY, AGENTS AND THE LAW
New models for legal informatics

Within the framework of its yearly international conference which 2008 edition will be held in Florence, Italy, on December 10- 13, JURIX organizes a special one day session devoted to Game Theory and the Law.

Aim and purpose

Game theory has become one of the main approaches to the study of human interaction, in different social disciplines: economics, politics, sociology, and law. Its application to the legal domain provides new models for modelling the emergence, and the impacts of legal norms, as well as the behaviour of legal actors. Game theory is also increasingly important in computing, being applied in particular in the context of multiagents systems.

The aim of the session is to explore the development of game theoretic tools in the treatment of regulatory and legal issues, and in the development of computer-based simulations and applications for the legal domain, at all different levels.

Scope and Areas:

Papers describing new techniques and/ original applications related, but not limited to the following topics are invited

Application areas

  • Legal argumentation
  • Legal advices and strategies
  • Negotiations
  • Mediation and arbitration
  • Law making
  • Litigation
  • Compliance pervasion
  • Self regulation and standards
  • Enforcement

Techniques

  • Game theoretic models of logic
  • Bayesian games
  • Games of deterrence
  • Dynamic games
  • Evolutionary games
  • Multi-agent systems and software tools
  • Computer-based simulation

Each proposal should be sent under a form an abstract of at least two pages indicating clearly:

  • The regulatory or legal fields of application
  • The game theoretic tools used
  • The originality of the proposal with respect to the state-of the-art
  • Core references

Abstract Submission and Review:

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 30, 2008
Abstract Acceptance Notification: November 15, 2008
Transmission of final papers: December 1, 2008
Workshop: December 10, 2008


The papers sent within the transmission date will be published after being reviewed by the Program Committee.

Program committee:

  • Hélène BESTOUGEFF, Université de Marne - La -Vallée, Paris
  • Giuseppe CONTISSA, University of Bologna
  • Eunate MAYOR, European University Institute, Florence
  • Jeremy PITT, Imperial College, London
  • Régis RIVERET, University of Aberdeen
  • Nino ROTOLO, University of Bologna
  • Michel RUDNIANSKI, CNAM, Paris
  • Giovanni SARTOR, European University Institute, Florence
  • Rosaria CONTE, CNR, Italy
  • Henry PRAKKEN, Universiteit Groningen & Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Organization and contact:

  • Eunate MAYOR, European University Institute, Florence
  • Michel RUDNIANSKI, CNAM, Paris
  • Giovanni SARTOR, European University Institute, Florence

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Workshop on the Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation:
Language, Logic, and Computation

The aim of this workshop is to draw together researchers around the issues of the empirical analysis, formalisation, and implementation of legal argumentation in natural language. Such a system would be a decision-support tool which translates natural language arguments into and out of an argumentation framework or logic which supports reasoning and inference. As the interface is in natural language, the tool would be accessible to a wide range of end-users. The workshop builds on recent advances in natural language engineering and argumentation including: controlled languages, predictive editors, text mining and corpus analysis, natural language parsing, ontology construction, translation of natural language sentences into first order logic, logical inference, linguistic analysis of argumentation, and computational theories of argumentation. It draws on an interdisciplinary community in Computer Science, Linguistics, and the Law.

While argumentation can be addressed in a broad range of areas, the workshop focusses particularly on the language, logic, and computation of legal argumentation such as that found between lawyers arguing a case before a court or found in legal briefs and decisions where justifications are given for and against a decision.

Topics of Interest:

  • Corpus development
  • Corpus analysis and text mining
  • Logical analysis of legal language
  • Automated parsing and translation of natural language arguments into a logical formalism
  • Legal argument schemes
  • Pilot implementations of tools
  • Defeasible reasoning systems for the law with natural language interfaces
  • Burden of proof in argumentation
  • Consistency, inconsistency, and compatibility of statements in the law
  • Coherence in legal argumentation
  • The identification of enthymemes (missing premises due to presupposition with respect to common knowledge and shared knowledge)
  • Legal argument modification
  • The generation of legal arguments
  • Linguistically-orientied XML mark up of legal arguments
  • Dialogue protocols for argumentation
  • Legal argument ontology
  • Legal Ontologies with associated lexical information
  • Computational theories of argumentation that are suitable to natural language

 

Submission Procedure:

Each position paper (in PDF format) should be no more than one page long with references appearing on a separate page. The position paper should briefly outline the author's interests in the workshop theme, what specific issues are being addressed, some review (with references) of the state-of-the-art, what approach will be taken, the problems foreseen, and how the approach relates to other approaches to natural language engineering of legal argumentation.

The position papers will be reviewed by the program committee.

The position paper should be submitted directly by email to:

Dr. Adam Wyner
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One of the authors of the position paper must register for the JURIX conference.

Presentation:

Each position paper will have 15-20 minutes for presentation. Time will be allocated for open discussion.

Important Dates:

Position Paper Submission Deadline: Friday. November 7, 2008
Position Paper Acceptance Notification: Monday November 17, 2008
JURIX Conference Dates: December 11-12, 2008
Workshop Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008

Publication:

At the workshop, we will discuss issues concerning publication of papers.

Co-Chairs:

  • Dr. Adam Wyner
    King’s College London
    Department of Computer Science
    26-29 Drury Lane
    London, WC2B 5RL, United Kingdom

  • Prof. Tom van Engers
    University of Amsterdam
    Leibniz Center for Law
    Oudemanhuispoort 4
    PO box 1030
    1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Program Committee (Preliminary):

  • Tony Hunter (University College London, United Kingdom)
  • Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
  • Burkhard Schafer (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • Larry Solan (Brooklyn Law School, United States)
  • Katie Atkinson (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
  • Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam, Germany)
  • Stuart Shieber (Harvard University, United States)
  • Johan Bos (University of Rome, Italy)
  • Henry Prakken (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
  • Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Doug Walton (University of Windsor, Canada)
  • Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College London, United Kingdom)
  • Floriana Grasso (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
  • Rob Sanderson (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
  • Graham Katz (Georgetown University, United States)
  • Frans van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Raquel Mochales Palau (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
  • Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • Thorne McCarty (Rutgers University)
5th International Workshop on Online Dispute Resolution

Background

In less than a decade, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is on its way to achieve a stage of maturity. The provision of a vast array of ODR services and the number of disputes resolved through ODR in different domains (i.e. e-commerce, domain name disputes, court-annexed ODR, insurance claims, peace-building processes, etc.) suggest that the taxonomy of disputes suitable for ODR may expand in the next future. Nevertheless, the development and application of ODR also poses a number of issues for researchers, practitioners, service providers, and final users (individuals, organizations, governments, etc.). These issues are related to aspects such as accessibility, usability, efficiency, confidentiality, or enforceability.

As in the previous four editions of the Workshop, the 5th International ODR Workshop aims at offering a forum for the exchange of ideas and projects between people with different backgrounds, such as providers of ODR-services, researchers in the field of ADR/ODR, law, argumentation, negotiation, and AI & Law, practitioners, justice experts, etc.

Topics covered

The Workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following categories:

  • Argumentation and ODR
  • Theories of dispute resolution and ODR
  • Modeling and designing of ODR systems
  • Tools and techniques for assisted negotiation, automated negotiation, online mediation, and online arbitration
  • Empirical research on ODR use cases and projects
  • ODR in e-commerce
  • ODR in e-government
  • ODR and e-justice
  • ODR in peace-building processes
  • ODR in online communities
  • Reputation issues in ODR
  • Psychological and cognitive factors in ODR
  • ODR protocols and standards
  • Legal issues in ODR

Program Committee:

  • Emilia Bellucci, School of Information Systems, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Pompeu Casanovas, Institute of Law and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Benjamin Davis, University of Toledo College of Law, USA
  • Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, Germany
  • Ethan Katsh, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
  • Sanjana Hattotuwa, Centre for Policy Alternatives and Infoshare, Sri Lanka
  • Arno R. Lodder, Centre for Electronic Dispute Resolution, The Netherlands
  • Orna Rabinovich, Haifa Center of Law & Technology
  • Barbara Madonik, Unicom Communication Consultants Inc., Toronto, Canada
  • Laurens Mommers, Law School, University of Leiden
  • Pablo Noriega, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC, Spain
  • Marta Poblet, Institute of Law and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Colin Rule, Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal.
  • Mohammed Wahab, Department of Private International Law, Cairo University, Egypt
  • Douglas N. Walton - Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor.
  • John Zeleznikow, School of Information Systems, Victoria University, Melbourne
  • Berry Zondag, Arbitrator’s and Mediator’s Institute of New Zealand

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit both papers up to a maximum of 5000 words, and position papers of approximately 500 words.

Deadline for submission: September 15th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: October 1st, 2008
Final papers due: October 15th, 2008

Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the Easychair Conference Management System, at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odrworkshop08

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Papers will be refereed and a number of the selected papers will be entered in a post-workshop review process, leading to a journal special issue on current ODR research.