Eighth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2014)

[Suzuki Hiroaki]

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!!Deadline Extention!!
Due to many requests, we will extend the deadline for Eighth International Workshop on Juris-informatics
(JURISIN 2014). New Submission Deadline: September 17, 2014

Conference date: November 23 - 24, 2014
venue: Raiosha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan

Aims and Scope

Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.

Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Model of legal reasoning
    Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent
    Legal term ontology
    Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
    Translation of legal documents
    Information retrieval of legal texts
    Computer-aided law education
    Use of Informatics and AI in law
    Legal issues on ubiquitous computing / multi-agent system / the Internet
    Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
    Natural language processing for legal knowledge
    Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
    Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

Bar Exam Competition

This year, JURISIN invites participation in a legal information extraction and entailment competition. Previous conferences/workshops have not conducted such a shared task on a large legal data collection, so we hope that the 2014 workshop will help establish a major experimental effort in the legal information extraction/retrieval field. The motivation for the competition is to help create a research community of practice for the capture and use of legal information.
Please visit the homepage of the bar exam competition.
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~miyoung2/jurisin_task/index.html

Invited Speakers

Bart Verheij (Stanford University/ University of Groningen)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 

Submissions: the submission site via EasyChair is now open.

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except as a submission to JURIX 2014 (The 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2014 is as follows:

    Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2014 and JURIX2014 must note this on the title page.
    A paper to be presented at JURISIN2014 must be withdrawn from JURIX2014 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors.
    If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURISIN 2014. 

Post Proceedings: Selected papers will be published via Springer Verlag LNAI. In addition, the authors have an opportunity to submit their full versions to the special issue of Journal of New Generation Computing. The detail will be announced soon.

Workshop Chair

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Organizing Committee Members

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Sano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Advisory Committee Members

Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK
Tomas Gordon, Fraunfoher FOKUS, Germany
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Program Committee Members

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan
Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI), Korea
Minghui Xiong, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Minghui Ma, Southwest University, China
Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan
Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK
Katsuhiko Sano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan
Katumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Philip T H Chung, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Australia
Masahiro Kozuka, Okayama University, Japan
Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Baosheng Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law, China
Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Home page of JURISIN 2014
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/org/jurisin2014/
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Satoshi Tojo
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)