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LOAIT
Workshop
Legal
Ontologies
and
Artificial Intelligence Techniques
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June
6, 2005, Bologna, Italy
held
in conjunction with ICAIL-05
Paper
submission: Extended Deadline April 4, 2005
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In
the last few years Legal Informatics (the study of methods for
automating the
treatment of
legal information)
has
been
significantly influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches.
For
instance, Machine Learning techniques have successfully been applied to
problems of legal documents classification, legal information
retrieval, legal
knowledge discovery and extraction.
As
the use of these techniques becomes more widespread it also becomes
clearer how
to enhance their performances. One way of doing this is to employ
structured
(domain) knowledge in order to reduce complexity and support correct
reasoning.
Legal Ontologies are playing a crucial role in providing such knowledge
at
various levels of specificity and formality.
The
LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and
well-founded
applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. Similarly
to past
events organized in conjunction with ICAIL-97, Jurix 2001 and ICAIL-03
the LOAIT
workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers and
practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related
fields to discuss
problems, exchange information and compare perspectives.
Authors are invited
to submit papers describing original completed work, work in progress,
interesting problems, case
studies or research trends
related to one or more of the topics of
interest listed below. Submitted papers will be refereed by two experts
based on
originality, significance and technical soundness.
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- Legal Ontologies
and Natural Language Processing
- Legal Ontologies
and Machine Learning for
classification tasks
- Legal Ontologies
for text categorization
- Legal Ontologies
and the Semantic Web
- Legal knowledge
discovery and organization by AI
approaches
- Ontologies and
legal standard modelling languages
- Ontologies of
property rights, persons and
organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality,
etc.
- Ontological
views on models of legal reasoning (e.g.
regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with
uncertainty, etc.)
- Multilingual and
terminological aspects of regulatory
ontologies
- Engineering of
regulatory ontologies (e.g. conceptual
analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability,
evolution
and dynamics, etc.)
- Experiences with
projects and applications
involving
regulatory ontologies (e.g. legal knowledge based
systems, legal information retrieval
systems, e-government or e-commerce
applications)
- Modeling legal
norms, concepts, rules, cases,
principles, values and procedures, methods for
managing organizational change when
introducing legal knowledge systems
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- Paper length:
max. 14 pages
- Paper format:
manuscript must be submitted in Word or RTF format (style for camera
ready papers).
- Paper electronic
submission at http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/
(please create your account, select "Submit Paper"
and choose "LOAIT Workshop")
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- Paper submission due:
March 25, 2005;
Extended deadline April 4, 2005
- Notification of
acceptance: May 11, 2005;
- Camera-ready
manuscript due: May 18, 2005 (hard deadline);
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- Trevor
Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United
Kingdom
- Richard
Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain
- Guido Boella,
Università di Torino, Italy
- Daniele
Bourcier, University of Paris, France
- Joost Breuker,
Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The
Netherlands
- Pompeu
Casanovas, Department of Political Science,
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- Jaime Delgado,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
Spain
- Tom van Engers,
University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands (to be confirmed)
- Aldo
Gangemi,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology
(ISTC-CNR), Italy
- Mustafa Jarrar,
STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium
- Guiraude Lame,
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines
de Paris, France
- Laurens Mommers,
Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Paulo Quaresma,
Departamento de
Informatica,Universidade de Evora, Portugal
- Giovanni Sartor,
University of Bologna, Italy
- Daniela
Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information
Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR), Italy
- Andre
Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures,
United States of America
- Radboud Winkels,
Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The
Netherlands
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Instructions
on ICAIL-05 web site
Regular
Registration (before May
27th, 2005)
- Full-day
Workshop € 70
- Full-day
Workshop with ICAIL registration € 40
Late
/ On-site
Registration
- Full-day
Workshop € 80
- Full-day
Workshop with
ICAIL registration € 50
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