Dear Colleagues,
Below please find a call for papers for the conference that will serve
as the umbrella for the forthcoming workshop on AI & Legal Evidence.
The workshop will be a one-day event that will take place sometime
during ca. May
21-25 of 2001. The organizers of the workshop will be Ron Shapira,
Giovanni Sartor, and
yours truly.
Sincerely,
Peter Tillers
P.S. A workshop at its best is an occasion in which participants can
learn from each other without fear of embarrassment, without thinking
that they have to be expert about every topic of discussion. This, in
any event, is the sort of atmosphere that the organizers of _this_
workshop aspire to create. We believe that AI people and scholars in the
law of evidence have many useful & interesting things to tell each
other.
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Subject: 2nd CFP ICAIL-2001 (AI & Law)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:06:16 +0200
From: Henry Prakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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With apologies in case you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
Second Call for Papers
Eighth International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW
(ICAIL-2001)
May 21-25, 2001
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/icail2001/
* Sponsored by:
- - The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
(IAAIL)
- - Washington University in St. Louis
* In cooperation with:
- - the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
The field of AI and law is concerned with:
* the investigation of legal reasoning and argumentation using
computational methods
* applications of AI and advanced information technology to support
tasks in regulated domains, especially for legal practice and
education.
* the investigation of techniques from AI and advanced information
technology using law as the example domain
ICAIL-2001 will be held under the auspices of the International
Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an
organization devoted to promoting research and development in
the field of AI and Law with members throughout the world.
ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the
latest research results and practical applications and stimulates
interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous
ICAIL conferences have taken place in Boston (1987), Vancouver
(1989), Oxford (1991), Amsterdam (1993), College Park, Maryland
(1995), Melbourne (1997), and Oslo (1999). As for these past
conferences, the accepted papers will be published in a conference
proceedings.
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not
restricted to:
* Legal Knowledge-Based Systems
* Advanced Judicial Support Systems
* Conceptual or Model-Based Legal Information Retrieval
* Case-Based Legal Reasoning
* Computational Models of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation
* Representation of Legal and Common Sense Knowledge
* Representation of other Norm-Governed Systems (e.g. business rules,
organisation rules, security regulations, and rules of order)
* Applications of Machine Learning to Law
* Automated Extraction of Information from Legal Texts
* Intelligent Legal Tutoring Systems
* Advanced Legal Document Drafting Systems
* Legal Ontologies
* Reasoning with Uncertainty in Evidential Reasoning
Special encouragement is given to submissions concerning new topics such
as:
* Legal Applications of Knowledge-based Electronic Commerce
* Advanced Internet Legal Research Aids
* Knowledge Discovery in Legal Databases
* Legal XML for Integration with Information Retrieval, Document
Drafting and Knowledge-Based Systems
* Advanced Tools for Legal Knowledge Management
* Models of Multi-Agent Systems with Legal Agents
* Modelling of Norms for Multi-Agent Interaction or Electronic
Institutions
Papers on theoretical issues in AI and in jurisprudence or legal
philosophy are invited provided that the relevance to AI and Law
is clearly demonstrated. Papers on applications should include a
description of the nature and purpose of the application, the
techniques employed, and the current state of implementation.
DONALD H. BERMAN AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER
To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the
Donald H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a
student. The winner(s) of the award, which is presented at the
conference banquet, receive a cash gift and free attendance at
ICAIL-2001.
ICAIL WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
ICAIL-2001 will include a tutorial and workshop program. Proposals
for tutorials and workshops are also invited, and should be sent to
the Program Chair by December 1st, 2000.
* Currently planned workshops: * Currently planned tutorials:
- - Advanced IT in Law Practice - Introduction to AI & Law
- - AI and Legal Evidence - Finding Law on the Internet
See the ICAIL-2001 Web site for more information, including calls
for papers of the workshops.
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Kevin D. Ashley, School of Law / Learning Research and Development
Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Benjamin Grosof, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
* Frederick Schauer, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, USA
IMPORTANT DATES
* Workshop and tutorial proposals: December 1, 2000.
* Submission of paper: January 12, 2001.
* Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2001.
* Camera-ready copies due: April 13, 2001.
* Conference: May 21-25, 2001.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions must be received by the Program Chair by January 12,
2001. Style files for Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX are available
at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Papers should not exceed 5000 words or, if one of the style files
is used, 10 pages. Short papers not exceeding 2500 words (or five
pages if a style file is used) are also invited, particularly in the
area of "applications experience".
Electronic paper submissions are strongly preferred and should be sent
to the Program Chair as an email attachment, using PDF or PostScript
format. To submit by ordinary mail, send six (6) hard copies of the
complete paper to the Program Chair at the address below.
Guidelines for authors, including downloadable style files and
templates, are available at the conference WEB site.
Program Chair
Henry Prakken
Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
Utrecht University
PO Box 80089
3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: (+31 30) 2532313
fax: (+31 30) 2513791
Conference Chair
Ronald P. Loui
Department of Computer Science
Washington University-in-Saint-Louis
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Secretary/Treasurer:
Carole D. Hafner
College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115 USA
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 617-373-5116
fax: 617-373-5121
Program Committee:
Vincent Aleven Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kevin D. Ashley University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon University of Liverpool, UK
L. Karl Branting University of Wyoming, USA
Rosaria Conte CNR Rome, Italy
Anne Gardner Stanford, USA
Thomas F. Gordon GMD Bonn, Germany
Benjamin Grosof MIT, USA
Carole D. Hafner Northeastern University, USA
Jaap Hage Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Peter Jackson West Group, USA
Andrew J.I. Jones University of Oslo, Norway
Steven Kimbrough University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ronald P. Loui Washington University, USA
L. Thorne McCarty Rutgers University, USA
Anja Oskamp Free Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edwina L. Rissland University of Massachusetts, USA
Giovanni Sartor Queen's Un. Belfast, UK / Bologna, Italy
Marek J. Sergot Imperial College London, UK
Andrew Stranieri La Trobe University, Australia
John Zeleznikow La Trobe University, Australia
