Call for papers

Contributions to the technological advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems in the legal and forensic domain. Papers should demonstrate a high level of quality, novelty and significance of the work, and evaluate results.

• Technology for expressing the structure and connections of legal texts and rules, including legislative, judicial, parliamentary, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts

• Technology for expressing the semantics of legal information and knowledge, including Legal Open Data, Legal Big Data, Knowledge Graph Database

• Technology for the large scale analysis of legal knowledge and information

• Technology for the verification and validation of legal knowledge systems, including checking compliance systems

• Technology for digital-rights management, licensing, access policies and authorisation, including issues in social networks

• Technology for managing privacy, cybersecurity and digital identity issues, including blockchain methods

• Technology for managing e-Commerce, fraud detection and new market platforms issues

• Technology for natural language processing and annotation of legal texts

• Technology for social simulations in the legal domain and for democratic innovation

• Technology for information retrieval over large bodies of legal texts and legal data

• Support and methodologies for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge in information systems

• Machine and deep learning for classification of legal information and legal knowledge extraction (comparison to existing baselines)

Implementations of AI & law technology in real world systems. Papers should demonstrate added value, novelty and significance of the work and, if possible, validate the described system and evaluate (potential) impact.

• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, publishing and implementation

• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation

• Support for police and law enforcement activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations

• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information

• Support for business, economic transactions, and other private parties in managing regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes

• Support for private parties in using alternative forms of dispute resolution, particularly online

• Support for governance and citizens in enhancing participation, for a better communication (e.g fake news) and democracy (e.g. political data in social media)

• Support for education by using legal information systems in a teaching environment