Call for Papers: ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

A call for papers — with paper submission deadline of 18 January 2013 — has been issued for ICAIL 2013: 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 10-14 June 2013 in Rome, Italy.

The Twitter account for the conference is @ICAIL2013 . The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #ICAIL2013. The conference organizers invite those interested to follow the Twitter account and hashtag and to comment and contribute with the latest news.

The conference features two tracks: one for “regular papers” and one for “innovative applications papers.”

Here is the complete list of deadlines:

• Mentoring program request deadline: November 9, 2012
• Mentoring program paper deadline: November 16, 2012
• Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 7, 2012
• Submission of abstracts (optional): January 11, 2013
• Submission of papers deadline: January 18, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2013
• Final revised and formatted papers due: April 19, 2013
• Conference: June 10 – June 14, 2013

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
• Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
• Computational models of argumentation and decision making
• Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
• Automatic legal text classification and summarization
• Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
• Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases
• Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
• E-discovery and e-disclosure
• E-government and e-justice
• Computational models of evidential reasoning
• Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
• Modeling negotiation and contract formation
• Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
• Online dispute resolution
• Intelligent legal tutoring systems
• Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Anne Gardner

[NOTE: Updated 23 November 2012 to add the Twitter account and hashtag. HT Enrico Francesconi]

ICAIL 2013 to Be Held in Rome, 10-14 June 2013

[NOTE: Workshops and tutorials have been announced for ICAIL 2013. For workshops, submission deadline vary; please see the description of each workshop.]

[NOTE: The ICAIL 2013 call for papers is now available at
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it/index.php/call
. HT Anne Gardner]

ICAIL 2013: The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, will be held 10-14 June 2013 in Rome, Italy, according to an email message sent on 11 May 2013 by the Executive Committee of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) to the IAAIL listserv.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #icail2013 and the Twitter account for the conference is @ICAIL2013

The call for papers submission deadline has not yet been announced.

According to the message, the conference will be hosted by the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the National Research Council of Italy (ITTIG-CNR), and the conference officers will include:

• Conference Chair: Professor Dr. Enrico Francesconi;
• Program Chair: Professor Dr. Bart Verheij;
• Secretary-Treasurer: Dr. Anne Gardner.

HT Dr. Anne Gardner.

[NOTE: Updated on 21 September 2012 to link to the call for papers.]

Bex et al. on A Hybrid Formal Theory of Arguments, Stories, and Criminal Evidence

Dr. Floris J. Bex of The University of Dundee Argumentation Research Group, and colleagues, have published A Hybrid Formal Theory of Arguments, Stories, and Criminal Evidence, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law. Here is the abstract:

This paper presents a theory of reasoning with evidence in order to determine the facts in a criminal case. The focus is on the process of proof, in which the facts of the case are determined, rather than on related legal issues, such as the admissibility of evidence. In the literature, two approaches to reasoning with evidence can be distinguished, one argument-based and one story-based. In an argument-based approach to reasoning with evidence, the reasons for and against the occurrence of an event, e.g., based on witness testimony, are central. In a story-based approach, evidence is evaluated and interpreted from the perspective of the factual stories as they may have occurred in a case, e.g., as they are defended by the prosecution. In this paper, we argue that both arguments and narratives are relevant and useful in the reasoning with and interpretation of evidence. Therefore, a hybrid approach is proposed and formally developed, doing justice to both the argument-based and the narrative-based perspective. By the formalization of the theory and the associated graphical representations, our proposal is the basis for the design of software developed as a tool to make sense of the evidence in complex cases.

Click here for Dr. Bex’s earlier post on this topic at the VoxPopuLII blog.