Call for Papers - the International Workshop on Translating Natural Legal Language into Formal Representation (NLL2FR 2025)

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Call for Papers

the International Workshop on Translating Natural Legal Language into Formal Representation (NLL2FR 2025) 

associated with JURIX 2025 at Turin, Italy

https://jurisinformaticscenter.github.io/NLL2FR2025 

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the International Workshop on Translating Natural Legal Language into Formal Representation (NLL2FR 2025), to be held in conjunction with JURIX 2025 on December 9, 2025, at Palazzo del Rettorato, Torino, Italy.

Workshop Theme
As legal systems increasingly intersect with digital technologies, the formal representation of legal norms has become essential. Structured knowledge representation provides a rigorous foundation for modeling legal reasoning and supports practical applications such as automated compliance checking, legal advisory tools, and normative reasoning in autonomous systems like self-driving cars and AI-driven legal decision-making. While many rigorous frameworks for legal knowledge representation and reasoning have shown great potential, they often assume that legal knowledge can already be expressed in formal languages. In reality, however, most legal rules and case descriptions are written in natural language, creating a significant gap between natural legal language and formal representations. NLL2FR 2025 addresses this challenge by bringing together researchers and practitioners developing methods, tools, and theoretical frameworks that bridge this linguistic–formal divide through approaches from natural language processing, knowledge representation, logic, argumentation, and legal informatics.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Translating natural language legal texts—ranging from statutes and rules to judgments and full case narratives—into logical representations
* Constructing legal ontologies from natural language documents
* Extracting legal factors from case texts
* Extracting and structuring argumentation from natural language sources
* Any theories and technologies which is not directly related to the workshop but have the potential to contribute to the workshop


Important Dates
* Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025
* Notification to Authors: November 17, 2025
* Camera-ready Due: November 24, 2025
* Workshop Date: December 9, 2025

We warmly invite you to consider submitting your recent research and would be grateful if you could share this CFP with your colleagues and networks.
Detailed submission guidelines and updates are available at:
https://jurisinformaticscenter.github.io/NLL2FR2025


We look forward to your valuable contributions and hope to see you at NLL2FR 2025 in Torino this December!

Warm regards,
Ken Satoh, Georg Borges, Hannes Westermann, and May Myo Zin
Organizers, NLL2FR 2025