Hoekstra: Dataset: A Network Analysis of Dutch Regulations

Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the Leibniz Center for Law has posted a dataset entitled A Network Analysis of Dutch Regulations.

Here is the description:

This fileset contains two networks (CSV files) of citations between Dutch regulations stored on the MetaLex Document Server, at the document level, and at the article level. We ran several network analysis measures over these networks (stored again in two CSV files) and provide two visualisations of the networks (size is PageRank, color is given by Module).

This is an accompaniment to a submission to the Network Analysis in Law workshop of ICAIL 2013.

Calls for papers still open: ICAIL 2013 Workshops

Calls for papers remain open for the following workshops being held 10/14 June 2013 at ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law in Rome, Italy:

W2 — Argumentation in AI and Law: what do we know and where should we go?

• Chair: Trevor Bench-Capon
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: 29 April 2013
• Workshop Date: 10 June 2013

W3 — Legal Open Data: from Institutions to Crowd-sourcing

• Chair: Monica Palmirani
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: 4 May 2013
• Workshop Date: 10 June 2013

W4 — 13th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA XIII)

• Chairs: Floriana Grasso, Chris Reed
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: Short papers: 30 April 2013
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W7 — Discovery of Electronically Stored Information Workshop (DESI V)

• Chairs: Jason Baron
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: Research papers: 1 May 2013; Position papers: 8 May 2013
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W9 — Network analysis in legal sources

• Chair: Radboud Winkels
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: 10 May 2013
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

Click here for a complete list of ICAIL 2013 workshops and tutorials.

Accepted papers: ICAIL 2013

The list of accepted papers, research abstracts, and demos has been posted for ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 10-14 June 2013 in Rome.

Here is the list:

Papers

• Trevor Bench-Capon, Henry Prakken, Zachary Wyner Ada , Katie Atkinson: Argument schemes for Reasoning with Legal Cases Using Values
• Guido Boella, Marijn Janssen, Joris Hulstijn, Llio Humphreys, Leendert van der Torre: Managing Legal Interpretation in Regulatory Compliance
• Isabella Distinto, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo: A well-founded ontological framework for modeling personal income tax
• Davide Gianfelice, Leonardo Lesmo, Monica Palmirani, Daniele Perlo, Daniele P. Radicioni: Modificatory Provisions Detection: a Hybrid NLP Approach
• Laura Giordano, Alberto Martelli, Daniele Theseider Dupré: Temporal Deontic Action Logic for the Verification of Compliance to Norms in ASP
• Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri, Antonino Rotolo, Simone Scannapieco: Legal Contractions: A Logical Analysis
• Guido Governatori, Monica Palmirani, Tara Athan, Harold Boley, Adrian Paschke, Adam Wyner: LegalRuleML
• Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley: Using Event Progression to Enhance Purposive Argumentation in the Value Judgment Formalism
• Marc Lauritsen: On Balance
• Antonio Mastropaolo, Francesco Pallante, Daniele P. Radicioni: Legal Documents Categorization by Compression
• Antonino Rotolo, Serena Villata, Fabien Gandon: A Deontic Logic Semantics for Licenses Composition in the Web of Data
• Zaher Salah, Frans Coenen, Davide Grossi: Extracting Debate Graphs from Parliamentary Transcripts: A Study Directed at UK House of Commons Debates
• Mihai Surdeanu, Sara Jeruss: Identifying Patent Monetization Entities
• Tran Thi Oanh, Nguyen Le Minh,Akira Shimazu: Reference Resolution in Legal Texts
• Marc van Opijnen: A Model for Automated Rating of Case Law
• Charlotte S. Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij, Bart Verheij: Modeling Crime Scenarios in a Bayesian Network
• Tomasz Zurek, Michał Araszkiewicz: Modeling teleological interpretation

Research Abstracts

• Michał Araszkiewicz, Agata Łopatkiewicz, Adam Zienkiewicz: Factor-Based Parent Plan Support System
• Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker: Automated Monitoring of Legal-Rule Compliance Using DeepQA NLP Tools: Screening Legal Documents for Argumentation Evidence
• Michal Chalamish, Moshe Hazoom, Uri J. Schild: Semi-Automatic Creation of Wigmore Diagrams
• Jack G. Conrad, John Zeleznikow: The Significance of Evaluation in AI and Law: A Case Study Re-examining ICAIL Proceedings
• Michael Curtotti, Eric McCreath, Srinivas Sridharan: Software Tools for the Visualization of Definition Networks in Legal Contracts
• Tingting Li, Tina Balke, Marina De Vos, Julian Padget, Ken Satoh: A Model-based Approach to the Automatic Revision of Secondary Legislation
• Doris Liebwald: Vagueness in Law. A Stimulus for ‘Artificial Intelligence & Law’
• Nada Mimouni, Meritxell Fernandez-Barrera, Adeline Nazarenko, Daniele Bourcier, Sylvie Salotti: A Relational Approach for Information Retrieval on XML Legal Sources
• Katsumi Nitta, Shumpei Kubosawa, Kei Nishina, Masaki Sugimoto, Shogo Okada: A Discussion Training Support System and Its Evaluation
• Gordon J. Pace, Fernando Schapachnik: Synthesising Implicit Contracts
• Anna Ronkainen: Intelligent Trademark Analysis: Experiments in Large-Scale Evaluation of Real-World Legal AI
• Antonino Rotolo, Regis Riveret, Didac Busquets, Giuseppe Contissa, Giovanni Sartor: Vicarious Reinforcement and Ex Ante Law Enforcement: A Study in Norm-Governed Learning Agents
• Ted Sichelman: The Mathematical Structure of Legal Rights
• Radboud Winkels, Jochem Douw, Sara Veldhoen: Experiments in Automated Support for Argument Reconstruction

Demo Abstracts

Guido Boella, Luigi Di Caro, Daniele Rispoli, Livio Robaldo: A System for Classifying Multi-label Text into EuroVoc

Thomas Gordon: Introducing the Carneades Web Application

Guido Governatori, Sidney Shek: Business Process Compliance Checker

Luc Ferrand, Isabelle Pesquié-Geday: Hammurabi, the legal expert assistant platform for the French Judge: How to deliver up to date knowledge of national and European laws and regulations in front of rapid expansion of legal information and decisions, with an automated software assistant

Jop Hofste, Hans Henseler, Maurice van Keulen: Computer assisted extraction, merging and correlation of identities

Adam Zachary Wyner, Maya Wardeh, Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon: Argumentation Based Tools for Policy-Making

In addition, registration for ICAIL 2013 is now open.

HT Anne Gardner and @francesconi_e

Calls for Papers: ICAIL 2013 Workshops

Calls for papers have been posted for most of the workshops being held at ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.

The workshops will be held on 10/14 June 2013 in Rome, Italy.

Here are submission deadlines and links to workshop calls and Websites:

W1 — Coherence 2013 – Artificial Intelligence, Coherence and Legal Reasoning

• Chair: Michal Araszkiewicz
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: 20 April 2013
• Workshop Date: 10 June 2013

W2 — Argumentation in AI and Law: what do we know and where should we go?

• Chair: Trevor Bench-Capon
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: 29 April 2013
• Workshop Date: 10 June 2013

W3 — Legal Open Data: from Institutions to Crowd-sourcing

• Chair: Monica Palmirani
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: TBA
• Workshop Date: 10 June 2013

W4 — 13th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA XIII)

• Chairs: Floriana Grasso, Chris Reed
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: Long papers: 15 April 2013; Short papers: 30 April 2013
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W5 — SmartData: the New Face of AI, and the Law

• Chairs: Ann Cavoukian, Stefano Nolfi
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: N/A.
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W6 — Workshop on Formal Argument and Evidential Inference

• Chairs: Giovanni Sartor, Scott Brewer, Gustavo Ribeiro
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: Passed
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W7 — Discovery of Electronically Stored Information Workshop (DESI V)

• Chairs: Jason Baron
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: Research papers: 1 May 2013; Position papers: 8 May 2013
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W8 — Cross-border e-justice and e-Codex

• Chair: Marco Fabri
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: N/A.
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

W9 — Network analysis in legal sources

• Chair: Radboud Winkels
• Call-for-Papers Submission Deadline: 1 May 2013
• Workshop Date: 14 June 2013

Call for Papers: Workshop on Network Analysis and Law @ ICAIL 2013

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 1 May 2013 — has been posted for the workshop, Network Analysis and Law, to be held 14 June 2013 in Rome at ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Here is an excerpt from the call:

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from computational social science, computational legal theory, network science and related disciplines in order to discuss the use and usefulness of network analysis in the legal domain. We are thinking of both *social* networks (of e.g. legal scholars or criminals) and the network of *sources of law* (sources referring to other sources form a network). Topics include the (re)construction, analysis and visualisation of these networks and their interactions.

We invite papers on and demonstrations of original work on these and other aspects of network analysis in the legal field. Submissions will be subject to a light review process on appropriateness for this call, originality of the research described and technical quality. [...]

For more details, please see the complete call.

HT @Radboud

Call for Papers: DESI V: Workshop on Standards for Using Predictive Coding and Other Machine Learning Algorithms

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 1 May 2013 — has been issued for DESI V: Workshop on Standards for Using Predictive Coding and Other Machine Learning Algorithms, to be held 14 June 2013 in Rome, Italy, following ICAIL 2013: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Papers addressing the following questions are invited for DESI V:

1) How transparent can and should the process be in sharing seed sets or training sets of documents with opposing parties, including the sharing of privileged documents?

2) What differences if any exist between seed sets developed through random sampling versus other forms of judgmental sampling (including picking seed documents using keywords)?

3) How are non-relevant documents used to optimize machine learning algorithms and should they be subject to similar disclosure?

4) Are there ways in which predictive coding and machine learning methods can be tuned to find highly relevant (“hot”) documents in large collections?

5) To what extent is metadata important in tuning predictive coding software to find similarity in documents?

6) In light of past research at the TREC Legal Track and elsewhere, are there absolute targets for metrics in recall and precision that could serve as standards in every case, or are achieving certain metrics dependent on the relevant data set and legal context?

7) What kinds of best practice standards are needed to help improve mutual understanding of what was actually done, and to improve overall “search quality”?

8) How should predictive coding techniques be audited in connection with an entity submitting itself to an ISO 9001 quality measurement process?

9) To what extent can and should machine learning approaches be used in other phases of the litigation process, to assist in aspects of the process such as identification, preservation, and collection?

10)What are the applications of predictive coding and other forms of machine learning in related “compliance” areas, including regulatory, enforcement, and investigations?

The workshop discussion will be grounded in the results of the recently completed TREC Legal Track, especially where supervised learning methods have shown promising results in terms of being able to more cost-effectively demonstrate rates of recall and precision that approximate the best that could be obtained through other methods, including exhaustive manual review.

For more details, please see the complete call.

HT Jurix.

Bench-Capon et al.: A History of AI and Law in 50 Papers: 25 Years of ICAIL

Professor Dr. Trevor Bench-Capon the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science, and colleagues, have published A history of AI and Law in 50 papers: 25 years of the international conference on AI and Law, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Here is the abstract:

We provide a retrospective of 25 years of the International Conference on AI and Law, which was first held in 1987. Fifty papers have been selected from the thirteen conferences and each of them is described in a short subsection individually written by one of the 24 authors. These subsections attempt to place the paper discussed in the context of the development of AI and Law, while often offering some personal reactions and reflections. As a whole, the subsections build into a history of the last quarter century of the field, and provide some insights into where it has come from, where it is now, and where it might go.

Three of Adam Wyner‘s contributions to this issue are linked from the post: Wyner on Logic Programming, Case Law Knowledge Bases, and Legal Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval.

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]

Wyner on Logic Programming, Case Law Knowledge Bases, and Legal Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval

Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science has posted comments on three papers presented at the first ICAIL conference, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (1987). These comments are to be published in a forthcoming special issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Here are links to the comments:

• Adam Wyner: Comment on Trevor Bench-Capon et al. (1987). Logic programming for large scale applications in law: A formalisation of supplementary benefit legislation.
• Adam Wyner: Comment on Carole Hafner. (1987). Conceptual organization of case law knowledge bases.
• Adam Wyner: Comment on Edwina Rissland and Jody Daniels. (1987). A hybrid CBR-IR approach to legal information retrieval.

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.]