LDA2018

CEILI Workshop on LEGAL DATA ANALYSIS
http://ceili.eu/LDA2018

held in conjunction with
JURIX2018
University of Groeningen
http://jurix2018.ai.rug.nl/

Workshop Organizers:
Michal Araszkiewicz, Erich Schweighofer, Bernhard Waltl

Programme 

Wednesday,  12 December 2018  
14.00 Erich Schweighofer, Michal Araszkiewicz, Bernhard Waltl  Introduction to the workshop
14.10-14.30 (short papers) Tianyu Yuan Structured relation – Increasing decision efficency through collaborative decision creation
 14:30-15 Alexander Boer and Jelle Van Noord Quick Topic Modeling in Case Law using a Compression Algorithm
15-15.30 Coffee break
15:30-16 Janis Beckedorf Applying software metrics to measure legal complexity
16-16:30 Wojciech Cyrul and Tomasz Pełech Pilichowski Legislating in Hypertext
16:30-17 INVITED TALK Bernhard Waltl Legal norm classification and usage of explainable AI

 

Draft Programme

Programme Sessions
Room
Wednesday,  12 December 2018
14-14:30 Invited Talk Bernhard Waltl Legal norm classification and usage of explainable AI
14.30-15 (short papers) Tianyu Yuan STRUCTURED RELATION – INCREASING DECISION EFFICENCY THROUGH COLLABORATIVE DECISION CREATION
Jakub Harašta  Building Low-Level Legal Applications on EUR-Lex Data
15-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17 Alexander Boer and Jelle Van Noord Quick Topic Modeling in Case Law using a Compression Algorithm
Janis Beckedorf Applying software metrics to measure legal complexity
Wojciech Cyrul and Tomasz Pełech Pilichowski Legislating in Hypertext

 

 

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Abstract. The Workshop on Legal Data Analysis intends to focus on representation, analysis and reasoning with legal data. Workshop organisers are: Michal Araszkiewicz, Erich Schweighofer and Bernhard Waltl. The workshop at JURIX2018 would be already the 4th.

Deadline extended until 23 November 2018!

Motivation

The Workshop on Legal Data Analysis of the Central European Institute of Legal Informatics (CEILI) intends to focus on representation, analysis and reasoning with legal data in information systems from a lawyer’s and citizen’s perspective; trying to get support in mastering big data in law but also respecting privacy issues.

The pervasive use of information systems has led to tremendous success in enterprises and businesses. With a user-centric design, information systems (IS) have proven their value in today’s companies on several occasions. Most recent developments have unveiled unexpected possibilities in overcoming the retrieval constraints of access to legal knowledge. In law, the need arises for both legal databases as well as huge data volumes of cases. Market solutions are already available.

However, theoretical work and practical reflection for time-, data-, and knowledge-intensive tasks, which most of the tasks in legal science and legal practice are still highly relevant. Pre-defined formal models of legal knowledge and semantic documents allow semantics of textual and structural information with tools of Natural Language Processing, Named Entity Recognition, Network Analysis, Information Retrieval and additional analysis and measurements. This workshop particularly encourages submissions describing concrete user problems, needs and concerns in the context of legal data and legal analysis and theoretical reflection.

This workshop is intended to be a forum for discussion of research ideas, questions and developments addressing all kind of concrete user support in processes related to the representation, analysis and reasoning on legal information and data analysis.

Participation is most welcome on all topics relevant to these research domains, including:

  • Reasoning with legal information and legislative texts (including contracts and patents)
  • Modeling and design of legal information, legislative texts, electronic contracts and SLAs
  • Usage of ontologies in information systems to support representation, analysis and reasoning on legal information
  • Analysis of the network like structure of legal systems and legislations
  • Forecast and prediction models on legal data
  • Big Data analysis of textual information In large legal text corpora
  • Access to Data and Open Data Initiatives
  • User stories and use cases of legal analysis in combination with IS
  • Predictive Coding
  • Natural Language Processing in IS
  • Multi-lingual aspects of NLP in the legal domain
  • Interoperability of logic frameworks and natural language processing
  • Drawbacks and limitations of logic frameworks, natural language processing, usage of ontologies in IS, etc.
  • Measurements, such as quantitative linguistics, and correlations on legal data
  • Information retrieval in IS, including optimization, reformulation, refinement and expansion of queries and facets
  • Semantic relations in electronic files
  • Societal impact of emerging IS technology in the legal domain
  • Argumentation mining
  • Legal interpretation modelling (including judicial interpretation and doctrinal interpretation)
  • Privacy and big data issues

We invite researchers to submit their original papers (drafts 4-10 pages, final papers: 8 pages, 2400 words) on these themes. In case of acceptance, the paper will be included in the workshop materials and later extended versions published in Jusletter IT (http://www.jusletter-it.eu).

Format & audience

1/2 day workshop with paper presentations and 1 panel discussion

6 papers, 5 panelists, about 15-20 particpants

Organizers

Dr. Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna

Bernhard Waltl, (formerly) Technische Universität München

Programme Committee (tbc)

Workshop participants will be selected by a peer review of abstracts by the Programme Committee.

 

Prof. Dr. Witold Abramowicz, University of Business Administration, Poznan

Wolfgang Alschner, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva

Dr. Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Prof. Dr. Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh

Prof. Dr. Zsolt Balogh, Corvinus University of Budapest

Prof. Dr. Danièle Bourcier, Université de Paris II & CNRS

Prof. Dr. Vytautas Čyras, University of Vilnius

Dr. Enrico Francesconi ITTIG Florence

Prof. Dr. Fernando Galindo, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Dr. Matthias Grabmair, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Franz Kummer, Weblaw & Universität Bern, Bern

Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München

Yannis Panagis,University of Copenhagen

Prof. Dr. Joost Pauwelyn, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva

Prof. Dr. Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, University of Bologna

Dr. Radim Polčak, Masaryk University, Brno

Giovanni Ratti

Martin Rollinger,SINC, Wiesbaden

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute & University of Bologna

Jaromir Savelka,University of Pittsburgh

Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria

Prof. Dr. Ted Sichelman,University of San Diego, School of Law

Dr. Noam Slonim, IBM Haifa Research Lab

Prof. Dr. Vern Walker, Hofstra University

Bernhard Waltl, Technische Universität München

Dr. Adam Wyner, University of Swansea

Tomasz Zurek, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin

Dates

14 November 2018: Submission of draft paper   !Extended: 24 November 2018

24 November 2018: Notification of acceptance   !Extended: 30 November 2018

30 November 2018: Submission of nearly final version of paper for workshop documentation   !Extended: 7 December 2018

 

12 December 2018: workshop at JURIX2018

2018: final version of paper for on-line publication in Jusletter IT (tbc)

 

Submission of Abstracts and Papers

Via the Easychair conference system

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lda2018

Requests and Information

Erich Schweighofer, erich.schweighofer@univie.ac.at

Short Profiles of the organisation and the organisers

 

The Central European Institute of Legal Informatics intends to provide a platform of scientific exchange on legal informatics in the Central European region and neighbouring countries. Established in 2015, it tries to stimulate and improve long-standing informal networks between researchers in this region.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Erich Schweighofer

University of Vienna, Centre for Computers and Law

Schottenbastei 10-16/2/5, 1010 Wien AT

Tel. +43 1 4277 35305, Fax +43 1 4277 9353

Erich.Schweighofer@univie.ac.at

rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at

Erich Schweighofer is Professor of Legal Informatics, International Law and European Law & Head of the Centre of Legal Informatics at the University of Vienna (http://rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at). He has over twenty years experience of funded research in legal informatics. He holds degrees in law, informatics, economics and international relations.

His technical background includes all aspects of law in the knowledge society, in particular legal retrieval systems, legal ontologies, semiautomatic text analysis and document categorisation, digital forensic, digital signatures etc. He was head or local co-ordinator of many research projects.

He chairs the legal informatics groups in Germany (GI Gesellschaft für Informatik) and Austria (OCG Austrian Computer Society). Every year, he organizes the well-known Legal Informatics Conference IRIS (http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2019).

Dr. Michał Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University

Ul. Bracka 12, 31-005 Kraków, Poland

michal.araszkiewicz@uj.edu.pl

http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/ktp/pracownicy/ma/

Michał Araszkiewicz has published more than 40 peer reviewed papers in the fields of legal philosophy, legal argumentation, logic and AI & Law. Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. He acts as the Vice-President of the ArgDiaP organization, concerned with research on theory and practice of argumentation, and a founding member of Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Jagiellonian University. Michał Araszkiewicz obtained fellowships from the SYLFF foundation, the Foundation for Polish Science and from the Minister of Science and Higher Education. He is also admitted to practice as a legal advisor in Poland. He serves as an expert in the Centre for Research, Study and Legislation of the Polish Chamber of Legal Advisors and in the independent think-tank INPRIS – the Institute for Law and Society.

Bernhard Waltl, (formerly) University of Technology, Munich

bernhard.waltl@outlook.com

Bernhard Waltl is working as a scientist in the private sector. Formerly, he has been a research associate at the chair for Software Engineering of Business Information Systems (sebis) at the Technische Universität München since May 2014. He holds a master’s degree in Informatics from the Technische Universität München. Additionally, he holds a master’s degree in Philosophy of Science and Technology (WTPhil) from the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), with a focus on philosophy of science, complexity and risks.

His research area includes modelling and management of legal obligations and the analysis of legal texts. Within his research he cooperates with leading legal scientists and practitioners. More detailed information about this cooperation can be found on www.lexalyze.de and www.en.lexalyze.de.