14th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2013)
June 10 – June 14, 2013
ITTIG-CNR
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council of Italy)
Rome, Italy
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it
Sponsored by:
The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
ITTIG-CNR
Call for Papers, Workshop Proposals and Demonstrations
The field of AI and Law is concerned with:
* the study of legal reasoning using computational methods
* the study of AI and other advanced information technologies, using
law as an example domain
* formal models of norms, normative systems, norm-governed societies
* legal and quasi-legal applications of AI and other advanced
information technologies
The ICAIL conference is the primary international conference
addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law, and has been
organized biennially since 1987 under the auspices of the
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL).
ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the
latest research results and practical applications; it fosters
interdisciplinary and international collaboration. The conference
proceedings are published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence
and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL
papers.
ICAIL 2013, the fourteenth International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Law, invites the submission of papers on a broad
spectrum of research topics. Authors are invited to submit papers on
topics including but not restricted to
* 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
* 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
* Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
* Online dispute resolution
* Intelligent legal tutoring systems
* Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
* Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems
Invited speakers
* Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR
* Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo
* Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam
Two tracks: regular papers and innovative applications papers
For ICAIL 2013, authors are invited to submit papers in one of two
tracks: regular and innovative applications. In addition to papers
about results and findings from systems, approaches, or theoretical
models (in the conference's regular track), we encourage the
submission of original papers about innovative applications. Both
regular track papers and innovative applications papers will be
assessed in a rigorous reviewing procedure. Standard assessment
criteria for research papers will apply to all submissions (relevance,
originality, significance, technical quality, presentation). Papers
proposing formal or computational models should provide examples
and/or simulations that show the models’ applicability to a realistic
legal problem or domain. Papers on innovative applications should
describe clearly the motivations behind the project, the techniques
employed, and the current state of both implementation and evaluation.
All papers should make clear their relation to prior work.
Demonstrations
A session will be organized for the demonstration of creative, robust
and practical working applications and tools. Where a demonstration is
not connected to a paper in a track, a two page extended abstract
about the system should be submitted for review by the paper
submission deadline via the conference management system and following
the conference style. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in
the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are
connected to a paper in the regular track or innovative applications
track, no separate statement about the demonstration should be
submitted.
ICAIL Workshops and Tutorials
ICAIL 2013 will include workshops and tutorials on the first and last
days. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are invited, and should be
sent to the Program Chair. Tutorials should cover a broad topic of
relevance to the AI and Law community. Proposals should contain enough
information to permit evaluation on the basis of importance, quality,
and community interest. Each workshop should have one or more
designated organizers and a program or organizing committee. Proposals
should be 2 to 4 pages and include at least the following information:
* The workshop or tutorial top
