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From: Jos Lehmann (jos.lehmann@istc.cnr.it)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 15:21:19 MET

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    LOAIT Workshop
    Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
    http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top

    June 6, 2005
    Bologna, Italy

    held in conjunction with ICAIL-05
    http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/

    == LOAIT Description

    In the last few years Legal Informatics (the study of methods for automating
    the treatment of legal information) has been significantly influenced by
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches. For instance, Machine Learning
    techniques have successfully been applied to problems of legal documents
    classification, legal information retrieval, legal knowledge discovery and
    extraction.
    As the use of these techniques becomes more widespread it also becomes
    clearer how to enhance their performances. One way of doing this is to
    employ structured (domain) knowledge in order to reduce complexity and
    support correct reasoning. Legal Ontologies are playing a crucial role in
    providing such knowledge at various levels of specificity and formality.

    The LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and well-founded
    applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. Similarly to
    past events organized in conjunction with ICAIL-97, Jurix 2001 and ICAIL-03
    the LOAIT workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers
    and practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related fields to
    discuss problems, exchange information and compare perspectives.
    Authors are invited to submit papers describing original completed work,
    work in progress, interesting problems, case studies or research trends
    related to one or more of the topics of interest listed below. Submitted
    papers will be refereed by two experts based on originality, significance
    and technical soundness.
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    == LOAIT Topics of Interest

    Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

    Legal Ontologies and Natural Language Processing

    Legal Ontologies and Machine Learning for classification tasks

    Legal Ontologies for text categorization

    Legal Ontologies and the Semantic Web

    Legal knowledge discovery and organization by AI approaches

    Ontologies and legal standard modelling languages

    Ontologies of property rights, persons and organizations, legal
    procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc.

    Ontological views on models of legal reasoning (e.g. regulatory
    compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc.)

    Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies

    Engineering of regulatory ontologies (e.g. conceptual analysis,
    representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and
    dynamics, etc.)

    Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory
    ontologies (e.g. legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval
    systems, e-government or e-commerce applications)

    Modeling legal norms, concepts, rules, cases, principles, values
    and procedures, methods for managing organizational change when introducing
    legal knowledge systems
    ====

    == LOAIT Important Dates

    March 25, 2005: Paper submission

    April 25, 2005: Notification of acceptance

    May 10, 2005: Camera-ready paper

    June 6, 2005: Workshop
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    == LOAIT Submission & Registration Details

    Paper length: max. 14 pages

    Paper electronic submission: manuscript must be submitted in PS or
    PDF format at http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/ (create your account, select
    "Submit Paper" and choose "LOAIT Workshop")

    Paper camera ready format: instructions for camera ready papers to
    be announced on http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top

    Registration details on http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/?page_name=reg
    ====

    == LOAIT Organizers

    Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Rome, Italy
    Jos Lehmann jos.lehmann@istc.cnr.it

    Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR) Florence,
    Italy
    Maria Angela Biasiotti biasiotti@ittig.cnr.it
    Enrico Francesconi francesconi@ittig.cnr.it
    Maria Teresa Sagri sagri@ittig.cnr.it
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    == LOAIT Program Committee

    Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain

    Guido Boella, Universita' di Torino, Italy

    Daniele Bourcier, University of Paris, France

    Joost Breuker, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands

    Pompeu Casanovas, Department of Political Science, Autonomous University of
    Barcelona, Spain

    Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy

    Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    Guiraude Lame, Responsable des systèmes d'information juridique, Caisse
    Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne & Ecole CERSA, Université Paris 2, France

    Laurens Mommers, Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy

    Daniela Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques
    (ITTIG-CNR), Italy

    André Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, United States of America

    Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands
    ====



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