Archived Tweets and Resources from LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

Click here for archived Twitter tweets, in .csv format, from LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference, held 7-9 October 2012 at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Click here for the conference Website.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lvi2012, and the Twitter account for the conference is @LVI2012.

Click here for the conference program and abstracts of presentations.

Some conference sessions will be livestreamed here.

For blog posts and other resources related to the conference, please see the comments to this post.

October 7-9: LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

LVI 2012: The 25th Law via the Internet Conference, is being held 7-9 October 2012, at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School, in Ithaca, New York, USA.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lvi2012, and the Twitter account for the conference is @LVI2012.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets, in .csv format, from the conference.

Click here for the conference program and abstracts of presentations.

Some conference sessions will be livestreamed here.

Accepted Presentations for LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

The accepted presentations and their abstracts have been posted for LVI 2012: The 25th Law via the Internet Conference, to be held 7-9 October 2012, at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA.

April 2 Extended Call Deadline: LVI 2012: Law via the Internet Conference

A call for papers and presentations — with extended submission deadline of 2 April 2012 — has been issued for LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference — the international conference of the legal information institutes and the free-access-to-law community — to be held October 7-9, 2012 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Papers and presentations are invited respecting the following tracks:

• Track 1: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation
• Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing
• Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
• Track 4: Application Development for Open Access and Engagement
• Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics

For more information, please see the complete call.

HT @LIICornell.

March 15 deadline: Call for Papers and Presentations: LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference

A call for papers and presentations — with submission deadline of 15 March 2012 — has been issued for LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference — the international conference of the legal information institutes and the free-access-to-law community — to be held October 7-9, 2012 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Papers and presentations are invited respecting the following tracks:

• Track 1: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation
• Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing
• Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
• Track 4: Application Development for Open Access and Engagement
• Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics

For more information, please see the complete call.

HT @LIICornell.

New on VoxPopuLII: Vibert and Anderson on JurisPedia

Dr. Hughes-Jean Vibert of Institut für Rechtsinformatik, Universität des Saarlandes, and Kerry Anderson of the African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII), have posted JurisPedia: Perspectives, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

In this post, the authors describe JurisPedia, the free, international, multilingual, crowdsourced legal encyclopedia, and how it applies principles of crowdsourcing to legal information in many countries. The post describes the development of the English-language version of JurisPedia and its hosting by the Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) and then the African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII).

The authors describe the motivating principles of JurisPedia — particularly the principle of shared law — the potential tension between inclusiveness and quality control, and the service’s Creative Commons license. The post tells of the recent addition to JurisPedia of Google Custom Search functionality enabling searching of the laws of 80 countries. Finally, the authors discuss how JurisPedia provides legal information in multiple languages to individuals in particular nations, and how JurisPedia can ease ordinary citizens’ access to the laws of most countries of the world.

For more information, please see the complete post.

Call for Papers and Presentations: LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference

A call for papers and presentations — with submission deadline of 15 March 2012 — has been issued for LVI 2012: The Law via the Internet Conference — the international conference of the legal information institutes and the free-access-to-law community — to be held October 7-9, 2012 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Papers and presentations are invited respecting the following tracks:

• Track 1: The Promise and Reality of e-Participation
• Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing
• Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
• Track 4: Application Development for Open Access and Engagement
• Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Informatics

For more information, please see the complete call.

HT @LIICornell.

Call for Papers: SPLeT 2012: Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts

[NOTE: This post has been updated to reflect the extended deadline of 19 February 2012. HT Simonetta Montemagni.]

A call for papers — with extended submission deadline of 19 February 2012 — has been issued for SPLeT 2012: Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held 27 May 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.

SPLeT 2012 is being held in conjunction with LREC 2012: The Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.

Papers for SPLeT 2012 are invited on the following topics:

• Construction, extension, merging, customization of legal language resources, e.g. terminologies, ontologies
• Information retrieval and extraction from legal texts
• Semantic annotation of legal textual corpora
• Legal text processing
• Machine learning of legal texts
• Multilingual aspects of legal text semantic processing
• Legal thesauri mapping
• Automatic Classification of legal documents
• Logical analysis of legal language
• Automated parsing and translation of natural language arguments into a logical formalism
• Linguistically-oriented XML mark up of legal arguments
• Dialogue protocols for argumentation
• Legal argument ontology
• Computational theories of argumentation that are suitable to natural language
• Controlled language systems for law

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT Dr. Adam Wyner.

Call for Papers: CIKM 2011

A call for papers has been issued for CIKM 2011: The 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, to be held 24-28 October 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Dr. Peter Jackson of Thomson Reuters is scheduled to speak at the conference’s Industry Event.

Here are the submission deadlines:

• Workshop Proposals Due: March 28, 2011;
• Tutorial Proposals Due: April 26, 2011;
• Full Papers: Abstracts Due: May 17, 2011;
• Full Papers: Complete Papers Due: May 24, 2011;
• Posters Due: May 30, 2011;
• Demonstration Papers Due: June 26, 2011;
• Workshop Papers Due: June 29, 2011.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

Databases

• Access methods and indexing
• Authorization, data privacy and security
• Concurrency control and recovery
• Data quality, provenance, adaptability and reusability
• Data exchange, integration, evolution and migration
• Database languages and models (e.g., fuzzy data, probabilistic databases, meta-data management)
• Domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text)
• Dynamic aspects of databases (updates, views, real-time data, sensor data, active databases, data streams)
• Mobile, parallel and distributed data management (including cloud computing)
• Novel/advanced applications
• Query processing, optimization and performance
• Semantic Web and ontologies
• Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing
• String databases, blogs and social search
• Systems, platforms, middleware and experiences
• Workflow, Web services and Web Service Composition

Information Retrieval

• Aggregated search, Enterprise search, Desktop search
• Personalised and collaborative search
• Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
• Distributed IR, Peer to peer IR
• Domain-specific IR: genomic, legal, mobile, patents, …
• Evaluation, Test collections, Crowdsourcing for IR evaluation
• Foundations of IR: Theory, Formal models
• HCIR, User Interfaces, Interactive IR, User models, User studies
• Language technologies for IR (NLP, IE, Summarization, QA, …)
• Machine Learning for IR
• Multimedia IR: audio, speech, image, video, and cross-media
• Semi-structured information retrieval, Semantic search
• System Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
• Web IR and Social media search
• Other topics related to IR (Adverserial IR, Advertising, Privacy, Text Mining, etc.)

Knowledge Management

• Advertising and optimization
• Classification and clustering
• Data pre- and post-processing
• Domain-specific and cross-domain knowledge management
• Evaluation measures, methods and frameworks
• Information Extraction
• Information Filtering and Recommender Systems
• Knowledge and privacy (e.g., privacy-preserving data publishing and mining)
• Knowledge synthesis and visualization
• Large-scale statistical techniques
• Link and graph Mining
• Mining the usage, consumption and production of resources
• Semantic techniques
• Temporal, Spatial and Ubiquitous Data Mining
• Text Mining
• Web and Social Knowledge Management

Industry Research Track

• Industrial Practice and Experience
• Technology for Developing Regions

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Proposals: 2010 EU Criminal Justice Action Grants: Interconnection of Criminal Records, & e-Justice

[NOTE: In addition to the call for proposals described on this post, readers may be interested in the call for proposals for 2010 e-Justice Action Grants, designated JLS/2010/JPEN/AG/EJ.]

A call for proposals — with submission deadline of 15 September 2010 — has been issued for Criminal Justice Action Grants, with the designation JLS/2010/JPEN/AG, by the EU Directorate General for Justice, Freedom, and Security.

Proposals are invited on the following legal informatics topics:

Interconnection of criminal records

“National and transnational projects concerning the interconnection of national criminal record IT systems within the EU presented by national central authorities [...]. Exchange of information about convictions in the EU is to be facilitated through the creation of a computerised system of exchange of information ECRIS-European Criminal Records Information System. Projects should have one or more of the following objectives:”

• “Appropriate modernisation and computerisation of national criminal records IT systems where necessary for European interconnection: this could involve preparatory/feasibility studies, project development, purchase of computer software.
• Dedicated training of personnel working for national criminal record authorities, e.g. training on the functioning of their newly updated national information system, as well as specific training for those in charge of dealing at European level with other criminal record systems/foreign authorities;
• Projects aimed at facilitating the exchange of information extracted from criminal records between Member States’ central authorities for purposes other than criminal proceedings.
• Projects aimed at preparing the future implementation of ECRIS. These may include studies, preparatory meetings, translation of documents, technical and legal support to improve mutual understanding of criminal records information and technical exchanges.”

European e-Justice

“A separate call for European e-Justice with specific conditions is foreseen and has already been published. However, European e-Justice is also one of the priorities of this general call under the Criminal Justice Programme in 2010. In this general call, non-profit organisations are encouraged to participate in the development of European e-Justice. Their projects should help develop the use of electronic tools in the context of justice, taking into consideration national developments on the basis of exchange of best practice.

“All projects should aim to provide practical tools to enable better access to crossborder justice for EU citizens. [...]“

Proposals are invited on the following topics:

• “Support to multilinguism through translation of legal online sources of information
• Development of multilingual tools necessary to find a legal professional in another Member State
• Development of multilingual tools necessary to communication or exchange of data between legal practitioners
• Support to workshops relating to exchange of best practices in the field of e-Justice and dissemination of information on the results of existing national or cross-border projects
• Development of secure paperless procedures, between citizens and legal professions or amongst legal professions
• Creation or interconnection of national or European-level databases with national legislation and/or case law of the Member States relevant for the application of mutual recognition instruments or instruments approximating substantive criminal law.”

For more information, please see the call for proposals.