ICAIL 2013 call for papers

[Bart Verheij]

14th International Conference on

Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2013)

June 10 -- June 14, 2013

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 (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the 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

* Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval

* 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

* Online dispute resolution

* Intelligent legal tutoring systems

* Intelligent support systems for the legal domain

* Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems

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, evaluation, 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 email. 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 9, 2012

* Mentoring program paper deadline: November 16, 2012

* 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 <mailto:b.verheij at ai.rug.nl>

Conference Chair

Enrico Francesconi

ITTIG - CNR, Florence

francesconi at ittig.cnr.it <mailto:francesconi at ittig.cnr.it>

Secretary/Treasurer

Anne Gardner

Atherton, California, USA

gardner at cs.stanford.edu <mailto:gardner at cs.stanford.edu>

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