Call for Papers: Workshop on Applying Human Language Technology to the Law

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 31 March 2011 — has been issued for AHLTL 2011: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law, a workshop to be held 10 June 2011, at ICAIL 2011: The Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

[If the call for papers or the workshop Website is down, click here for the cached version.]

Papers are invited on the following topics:

The workshop will focus on extraction of information from legal text, representations of legal language (ontologies and semantic translations), and dialogic aspects. While information extraction and retrieval are crucial areas, the workshop emphasises syntactic, semantic, and dialogic aspects of legal information processing.

Building legal resources: terminologies, ontologies, corpora.
Ontologies of legal texts, including subareas such as ontology acquisition, ontology customisation, ontology merging, ontology extension, ontology evolution, lexical information, etc.
Information retrieval and extraction from legal texts.
Semantic annotation of legal texts.
Multilingual aspects of legal text semantic processing.
Legal thesauri mapping.
Automatic Classification of legal documents.
Automated parsing and translation of natural language arguments into a logical formalism.
Linguistically-oriented XML mark up of legal arguments.
Computational theories of argumentation that are suitable to natural language.
Controlled language systems for law.
Name matching and alias detection.
Dialogue protocols and systems for legal discussion.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Dr. Adam Wyner.

Tags: Adam Wyner, Alias detection and legal information, Authority control and law, Automatic classification of legal documents, Controlled language systems for law, Cross-language legal information systems, ICAIL ICAIL 2011, Information extraction, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Legal argument, Legal argumentation, Legal communication systems, Legal controlled language systems, Legal dialogue protocols, Legal dialogue systems, Legal discussion systems, Legal informatics conferences, Legal information extraction, Legal information retrieval, Legal knowledge representation, Legal multilingual information retrieval, Legal natural language processing, Legal ontologies, Legal text mining, Legal thesauri, Legal translation, Legal translation system, Legal XML, Multilingual legal information systems, Name authority control and law, Name matching and legal information, Natural language processing and law, Semantic annotation of legal documents, Semantic annotation of legal texts, Semantic processing of legal texts