Deadline Extension (3rd May): Final CFP ASAIL 2023

[Jack Mumford]

- Call for Papers (extended) -

Paper submission deadline: 23:59, 26th April 3rd May, 2023 (AoE)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/asail/asail-2023-call-for-papers

Held in conjunction with ICAIL 2023

Covered Topics

• Application of NLP to analyse arguments in legal texts: identification, annotation, and extraction of argument elements; relating arguments; and classifying arguments

• Automated or semi-automated approaches to extracting legal norms from legal texts

• Creation/evaluation of high quality annotated natural language legal corpora

• Automated semantic analysis of legal texts

• Development of computer-supported annotation environments for automated semantic analysis of legal texts

• Applications of machine learning to train automatic systems on tasks related to semantic analysis of legal texts, identifying legal norms, or extracting legal argumentation

• Summarization, visualization, and information retrieval for legal texts

• Argument mining of court cases, legislative records, legal policy debates and other legal documents

• Automated translations of legal text to formal or abstract representations that can be used for reasoning

• Applications of computational models of legal argumentation to guide interpretation of legal texts

• Application of linguistic theories of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse to legal texts

• Adaptation of NLP tools to the particularities of legal texts

• Implications of the above developments for law students and legal education

Papers Solicited

We invite papers written in English on, and demonstrations of, original work on the above listed and other aspects of automated detection, extraction and analysis of semantic information in legal texts. Three types of papers are solicited:

• full research papers (10 pages in the approved style plus bibliography); 

• short papers (6 pages in the approved style plus bibliography); and

• position papers (2 pages in the approved style plus bibliography).

The main aim of the workshop is to elicit thoughtful discussion of novel ideas, to that end we particularly encourage submission of relevant short and position papers to the workshop. Position papers will be expected to outline novel research that is in its early stages without substantive results, whereas full and short papers will express a tangible contribution and will be evaluated accordingly.

Single-blind Review

ASAIL uses a single-blind peer-review process; authors are not required to anonymise any aspect of their submission, but reviewers will be kept anonymous to the authors. We adopt this process as an expedient balance between any concerns of bias and facilitating submission.

Workshop Format

Both the morning and afternoon session will include full, short, and position paper presentations with subsequent Q&A. In order to maximise inclusiveness, the organising committee will determine the workshop schedule after all submissions have been received. We also expect to host a moderated panel session to encourage thoughtful debate and exchange of ideas.

Important Dates

Submissions due: 23:59, 26th April, 2023 (AoE)

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit an early abstract of their submission.

Accept/Reject notification: 26th May, 2023

Camera-Ready Papers due: 5th June, 2023

Venue

The workshop will be held for a full-day on Friday 23rd June in conjunction with ICAIL 2023, at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Organising Committee

• Francesca Lagioia, European University Institute and University of Bologna

• Jack Mumford, University of Liverpool (chair)

• Daphne Odekerken, Utrecht University

• Hannes Westermann, University of Montreal

Advisory Board

• Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh

• Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool

• Karl Branting, MITRE Corporation

• Enrico Francesconi, Italian National Research Council (IGSG-CNR) and European Parliament

• Matthias Grabmair, Technical University of Munich

• Jaromír Šavelka, Carnegie Mellon University

• Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

• Bernhard Waltl, BMW Group AG

• Adam Wyner, Swansea University

Programme Committee

• Tommaso Agnoloni, Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR)

• Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich

• Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta

• Georg Rehm, DFKI

• David Restrepo Amariles, HEC Paris

• Marijn Schraagen, Utrecht University

• Giulia Venturi, Italian National Research Council (ILC-CNR)

• Raboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam