CFP: MIREL workshop, MIning and REasoning with Legal texts

[Leon VAN DER TORRE]

Call for Papers
MIREL workshop
MIning and REasoning with Legal texts
in conjunction with LuxLogAI
September 17th - Luxembourg

Deadline: July 2, 2018

The aim of MIREL-2018 workshop is to bridge the gap between the 
community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community 
working on reasoning methods and formal logic, in line with the 
objectives of the MIREL (MIning and REasoning with Legal texts) project. 
The workshop aims at fostering the scientific discussion between 
approaches based on language technologies applied to the legal domain 
(representing legal knowledge) and those based on legal reasoning(using 
the legal knowledge to build specialized services and applications).

Background

Legal scholars and practitioners are feeling increasingly overwhelmed 
with the expanding set of legislation and case law available these days, 
which is assuming more and more of an international character. For 
example, European legislation is estimated to be 170,000 pages long, of 
which over 100,000 pages have been produced in the last ten years. 
Furthermore, legislation is available in unstructured formats, which 
makes it difficult for users to cut through the information overload. As 
the law gets more complex, conflicting, and ever changing, more advanced 
methodologies are required for analyzing, representing and reasoning on 
legal knowledge.

The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access 
and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics, 
which is experiencing growth in activity, also at the industrial level. 
Specifically, it is necessary to address both conceptual challenges, 
such as the role of legal interpretation in mining and reasoning, and 
computational challenges, such as the handling of big legal data, and 
the complexity of regulatory compliance.

Legal domain has always been attractive to language and semantic 
technology because of its importance for the society with respect to 
globalization and common markets as well as for its challenges for 
formalization and specific language use. For this reason, a series of 
workshops centered in legal informatics and related topics have been 
organized recently; examples are ICAIL, JURIX, and JURISIN. Furthermore, 
several research projects in the legal domain have been recently funded 
by the EU and similar institutions, among which ``MIREL: MIning and 
REasoning with Legal texts''.

Objective

The development of NLP techniques and semantic technologies for 
automatic analysis and indexing of big data freely available on the web 
has created opportunities for building new approaches to improve the 
efficiency, comprehensibility, and consistency of legal systems. 
Semantic analysis aims at relating syntactic elements – which could be 
phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and whole documents - to their 
meanings in a given domain, including meanings specific to legal 
information. On the one hand, in recent years the EU has delivered huge 
amounts of resources on EU law in many languages (such as, EuroParl, 
JRC, etc.). On the other hand, the matured NLP and Semantic Web 
technology provides a good inventory: for formalizing the law data in 
the form of domain ontologies; for automating the process of relevant 
knowledge extraction from legal documents; and for representing it in 
form of Linked Data in RDF. This will support legal reasoning tasks such 
as better search possibilities, compliance checking and decision 
support, as well as a better presentation of the legal information to 
professional and non-professional stakeholders.

The aim of MIREL-2018 workshop is to bridge the gap between the 
community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community 
working on reasoning methods and formal logic, towards these objectives 
described above.

Topics

Language technologies for processing of legal texts
Legal reasoning (searching, compliance checking, decision support)
Ontology design patterns for the legal domain
Ontological modeling of legal data
Core and domain ontologies for the legal domain
Legal knowledge on the Web
Legal Linked Open Data
Machine learning and data mining for legal applications
Adaptation of language processing modules to legal domain
Large-scale normative reasoning
Computational methods for legal reasoning
Extraction of legal Named entities - legal citations, etc.
Legal search engines - requirements, implementations, etc.
Semantic annotations for legal texts
Formal analysis of normative concepts and normative systems
Formal analysis of the semantics/pragmatics of deontic and normative 
expressions in natural language
Expressive vs. lightweight representations of legal knowledge
Legislation and case law corpora in Linked Open Data
Applications in the legal domain

Submission

We invite submissions up to 12 pages plus 3 additional pages for 
bibliography and appendix, in LNCS format.

Papers will be published at the IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their 
Applications.

Authors shall submit their papers electronically via EasyChair before 
the due date in PDF format.

https://sites.google.com/view/mirelworkshop2018/

Organizers

Laura Alonso Alemany, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina)
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
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