CALL FOR PAPERS ================ International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Legal Documents (AI4LEGAL2020) In the context of the International Semantic Web Conference 2020 (ISWC 2020) Virtual Event November 2 or 3, 2020 http://ai.di.uoa.gr/#iswc20-workshop Legislation applies to every aspect of people’s living and evolves continuously building a huge network of interlinked legal documents. Therefore, it is important for a government to offer services that make legislation easily accessible to the citizens aiming at informing them, enabling them to defend their rights, or to use legislation as part of their job. It is equally important to have law professionals (lawyers, judges, etc.) access legislation in ways that allow them to do their job easily (e.g., they might need to be able to see the evolution of a law over time). Finally, in the age of the Web, it is important to enable software developers to develop applications for citizens and law professionals easily, by connecting the available laws with other kinds of government or private sector information. Towards this direction, there are already many countries in Europe and elsewhere that have computerized the legislative process by developing platforms for archiving legislation documents and offering on-line access to them using standards such as Akoma Ntoso (aka LegalDocML) which is an OASIS standard, the European standard CEN-MetaLex, the European Legislation Identifier, the European Case Law Identifier etc. There also private companies (e.g., ROSS Intelligence, LexisNexis, RAVEL, LexMachina etc.) that specialize on providing digital services for law, case law, compliance, contracts, etc. The vision of the AI4LEGAL2020 international workshop is to bring together Artificial Intelligence researchers and practitioners to work on the problem of digitization of legislation and legal documents in today’s interconnected world. Topics of Interest =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Natural language processing techniques for legal documents -Legal knowledge graphs -Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques for legal documents -Explainable AI for legal documents -Linked data for legal documents -Machine learning techniques for legal documents -Scalable deep learning techniques for legal text analytics -Question answering for legal documents -Chatbots for legal documents -Language resources for digital legal document research and development -National or international initiatives and digital platforms for legislation -Multilingualism -Specific application areas (legislation, judicial decisions, case law, compliance, contracts) Submissions =========== Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of long or short papers. Long papers should be at most 16 pages including references. Short papers should be of at most 8 pages including references. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site. -All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4legal2020 -All submissions must be in English. -Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions. -Accepted papers will be published as AI4LEGAL2020 workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop to present the paper. -The proceedings of the workshop will be made publicly available before the workshop on the platform http://ceur-ws.org/ Important Dates ****REVISED***** =============== Activities |Due Date -------------------------------------------- Papers due |September 8, 2020 (extended) Notification of acceptance or rejection |September 30, 2020 (extended) Camera ready paper due |October 7, 2020 (extended) All deadlines are midnight Athens time (GMT+2). Workshop Format =============== The workshop will follow the traditional format (invited talks, presentations by paper authors, questions from the audience) but will encourage discussion and identification of open issues by giving enough time for questions after presentations. Venue ====== There is no physical venue. The workshop will be held on-line like the rest of ISWC 2020. Program Chairs =============== Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom ( G.Antoniou@hud.ac.uk, https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/grigoris-antoniou) Guido Governatori, Data 61 CSIRO, Australia ( Guido.Governatori@data61.csiro.au, http://www.governatori.net/research/index.html) Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Leader of Nomothesia project, Greece (koubarak@di.uoa.gr, http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~koubarak/) Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain ( emontiel@fi.upm.es, http://mayor2.dia.fi.upm.es/oeg-upm/index.php/en/teachers/52-emontiel/) Eleni Tsalapati, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece ( etsalapati@lboro.ac.uk) Program Committee ================== Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Karim Benyekhlef, Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Montreal, Canada Ilias Chalkidis, Athens University of Economics and Business and NCSR Demokritos, Greece Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, United States of America Randy Goebel, University of Alberta and ROSS Intelligence, Canada Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company, Austria George Karvelis, Ministry of Digital Governance and European Public Law Organization, Greece John P. McCrae, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland Marc van Opijnen, Publications Office of the Netherlands and European Case Law Identifier expert group, The Netherlands Jeff Z. Pan, The University of Aberdeen, UK Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Pompeu Casanovas Romeu, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and La Trobe University, Australia Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan Clara Smith, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Martin Theobald, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Leon van de Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia