Updated as of May 2013: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.

Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.

If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Updated as of March 2013: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.

Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.

If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Updated as of January 2013: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics. The calendar also lists legal hackathons and other legal hacking events.

Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.

If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Updated as of November 2012: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, legal communication, legal/forensic linguistics, or egovernment (as applied to legal information), or that are known to welcome papers on those topics.

Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.

If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Call for Proposals: ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: An ‘Un’conference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

A call for presentation proposals — with submission deadline of 15 October 2012 — has been issued for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship” — to be held 10 December 2012 at Media City in Dubai.

The organizers particularly welcome presentations about innovations in legal services or legal education. Presentations can take the form of 6 Minute Ignite Style Presentations or 12 Minute “TED Style” Presentations.

Registration is free.

The event Website describes the event as follows:

ReInvent Law Dubai is an “un”conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Anyone interested in the future of law or technology or entrepreneurship will want to participate. Come hear about the innovative ideas generated by the highly-engaging atmosphere of the event!

The event is being sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and is modeled on the LawTechCamp London 2012 event held last summer.

For more information, please see the ReInventLaw Dubai 2012 Website.

HT @computational.

Updated as of March 2012: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems or legal communication, or that are known to welcome papers on legal information systems or legal communication. Many e-government conferences are listed on the calendar.

Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.

If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Call for Participation: First Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts, SPLeT 2012

A call for participation — with registration deadline of 30 January 2012 — has been issued for the First Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts, part of SPLeT 2012: The “Semantic Processing of Legal Texts” Workshop, to be held 27 May 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. (SPLeT 2012 is being held in conjunction with LREC-2012: The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.)

According to the call:

[T]he goal of the shared task at SPLeT 2012 is to provide common and consistent task definitions and evaluation criteria for dependency parsing of legal texts in order to identify specific challenges posed by the analysis of this type of texts, to obtain a clearer idea of the current state-of-the-art, and to develop and share multilingual domain specific resources.

The languages dealt with will be English and Italian. Participants are expected to submit parsing results for at least one of the two languages involved, but they are strongly encouraged to submit results for both languages.

The task will be organized into two subtasks:

• a basic subtask (mandatory) focusing on dependency parsing of legal texts, aimed at testing the performance of general parsing systems on legal texts;
• a more challenging subtask (optional) focusing on the adaptation of general purpose dependency parsers to the legal domain, aimed at investigating methods and techniques for automatically extracting knowledge from large unlabelled target domain corpora to improve the performance of general parsing systems on legal texts.

For all deadlines, and for other information, please see the call for participation.

HT Dr. Giulia Venturi.

Updated as of June 2011: Legal Informatics Conference Calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has now been updated.

The calendar lists primarily scholarly conferences that focus on legal information systems, or that are known to welcome papers on legal information systems.

Click here for a list of events just added to the calendar.

If you know of events or other information that should be on the calendar but are not; or if you spot errors in the calendar, I’d be grateful if you would please share that information in the comments to this post.

Participation Invited: Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing Respecting Legislative Texts

Participation is invited for Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing, which is “an evaluation campaign for the adaptation of dependency parsers to legislative texts,” according to Giulia Venturi of l’Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR di Pisa (ILC-CNR). According to Ms. Venturi, “the domain adaptation task aims to investigate techniques for adapting state-of-the-art dependency parsing systems to domains outside of the data from which they were trained or developed.”

This campaign is being held as part of EVALITA 2011, the third evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian.

Organizers of the Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing campaign include Dr. Simonetta Montemagni of ILC–CNR and Ms. Venturi.

Registration for the campaign is open through 4 October 2011. Development data for the campaign becomes available as of 20 May 2011.

According to the Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing campaign announcement:

The goal of this task is to learn how to increase the accuracy of a parsing system when dealing with out-of-domain texts. In particular, the task will consist in learning how to derive labelled dependency relations for Italian by means of a parser developed for general language. The following data sets (in CoNLL format) will be distributed:

• for the source domain:
• a training set represented by the ISST-TANL corpus jointly developed by the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC-CNR) and the University of Pisa (UniPi) and already used in the dependency parsing track of EVALITA 2009 (pilot sub-task);
• a development set of about 5,000 tokens;
• for the target domain:
• a target corpus drawn from an Italian legislative corpus, gathering laws enacted by different releasing agencies (European Commission, Italian State and Regions) and regulating a variety of domains, ranging from environment, human rights, disability rights to freedom of expression. The target corpus includes automatically generated sentence splitting, tokenization and PoS tagging;
• a manually annotated development set of about 5,000 tokens, also including labeled dependency relations.

Evaluation will be carried out in terms of standard accuracy dependency parsing measures (labeled attachment score, unlabelled attachment score, label accuracy) with respect to a test set of texts from the target domain of about 5,000 tokens including manually revised PoS-tags.

For more information, please see the campaign announcement.

HT Giulia Venturi.