ICAIL 2013 call for papers, workshop proposals and demonstrations

[Bart Verheij]

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 topic and goals, their significance, and
their appropriateness for ICAIL 2013
* The intended audience, including the research areas from which
participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of
their names, if known), and plans for publicizing the workshop
* Organization of the workshop or tutorial, including the intended
format (such as invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, or
other methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere) and the expected
length (full day or half day)
* Organizers’ details: a description of the main organizers’
backgrounds in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including
web pages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable).


Mentoring Program for ICAIL 2013

The International Association for AI and Law (IAAIL) will offer a
mentoring program for papers being submitted to ICAIL.  The program is
intended primarily for junior authors who have not previously
published an Artificial Intelligence and Law paper at a conference or
in a journal. If you would like help with your submission, you may ask
for a mentor: a person who will help you with your submission to the
IAAIL audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. To
request a mentor, please send email to Jack Conrad at
Jack.G.Conrad at ThomsonReuters.com by the Mentoring program request
deadline. Please include your name and the names of your co-authors;
the name of your school/department and institution; a plain-text
description of your work (a title and abstract is a minimum
requirement); and any specific questions or areas in which you would
like help.  For further details about the mentoring program, see
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it.


Important Dates

These dates are tentative and subject to change

* Mentoring program request deadline: November 12, 2012 (revised)
* Mentoring program paper deadline: November 19, 2012 (revised)
* Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 7, 2012
* Submission of abstracts (optional): January 11, 2013
* Submission of papers deadline: January 18, 2013
* Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2013
* Final revised and formatted papers due: April 19, 2013
* Conference: June 10 - June 14, 2013


Submission Details

Papers should not exceed 5000 words. If an approved style file is
used, the maximum length is 10 pages. Style format template files can
be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers
should be submitted electronically to the conference support system,
https://www.conftool.net/icail2013/, in PDF or MS Word format, by the
paper submission deadline.

To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to submit
abstracts of their papers by the above abstract submission deadline.
Abstract submissions should also include the paper title, up to four
keywords, and a contact address for the principal author.

Both papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically to the
conference support system.

Authors will be notified of the referees’ decision in March 2013.
Papers not accepted for full publication and presentation may be
accepted as short research abstracts. Papers (including research
abstracts) must be presented at the conference in order to appear in
the proceedings. Final versions of papers for publication in the
proceedings will be due in April 2013.


Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper

To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald
H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student or
students. The award consists of a cash gift and free attendance at
ICAIL 2013. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student
author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is
submitted, and any nonstudent co-authors should provide a statement
that the paper is primarily student work. Notification will be made
through the ICAIL website, and the award will be presented at the
conference banquet.


Conference Officials

Program Chair
Bart Verheij
Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen
b.verheij at ai.rug.nl

Conference Chair
Enrico Francesconi
ITTIG - CNR, Florence
francesconi at ittig.cnr.it

Secretary/Treasurer
Anne Gardner
Atherton, California, USA
gardner.anne at sbcglobal.net