Workshop at ICAIL 2007,
the International Conference on AI and
Law
Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, June 8 2007
SW4Law
Workshop on
Semantic Web technology for Law
Description
In recent years, the Semantic Web has moved from an
experimental
playground for computer scientists to a set of standards, techniques
and best practices that can be used to solve intelligent
information-related tasks in a large, distributed environment.
Specifically, it can help with information organization, intelligent
search and selective access. In the legal domain there are numerous
sources of information maintained by different parties, while there
is a shared understanding and meaning of the information. This makes
the legal domain in principle suited as an application area for
Semantic Web technology. It is however an open question how to apply
these techniques fruitfully in the legal domain.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers with an
active
interest in using Semantic Web technology in the legal domain. In
previous workshops and the related LOAIT workshop, the emphasis was on
the structure of legal ontologies, and on methodologies of
ontological engineering. In contrast, this workshop will focus on the
application of Semantic Web technologies and the required building
blocks.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- web-enabling existing legal thesauri and ontologies
- intelligent parsing of legal material, such as court cases
and other legal texts
- creating and exploiting legal metadata
- case law annotation
- information extraction and ontology population
- ontology-based integration of law
- intelligent access to case law
- ontology-based legal information retrieval
- example applications of semantic web technology in the
Legal domain
- tools and libraries for the
development applications
Format
- one-day workshop at Friday June 8, 2007
- presentations + discussion on most important research
issues
Contributions
Authors are invited to submit papers with a length of maximal 6 pages
in
two-column style. Submissions in PDF should be submitted using the workshop management
system at http://www.easychair.org/SW4Law2007/.
Deadline for submission: May 6, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2007
Final papers due: May 28, 2007
Program and proceedings
The proceedings of the workshop are online. You can also look at the preliminary program.
Organization
- Michel Klein, VU University Amsterdam
michel.klein@cs.vu.nl
- Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
- Núria Casellas, Institute of Law and Technology,
UAB, Spain
Program Committee
- Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain
- Danièle Bourcier, CNRS/Université Paris, France
- Núria Casellas, Institute of Law and Technology,
UAB, Spain
- Bob DuCharme, Innodata Isogen, USA
- Roberto García González, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Rinke Hoekstra, Leibniz Center for Law, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Michel Klein, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Arno R. Lodder, Centre for Electronic Dispute Resolution,
the Netherlands
- John McClure, Legal-RDF.org / Hypergrove Engineering, USA
- Henry Prakken, Department of Information and Computing
Sciences,
Utrecht University / Faculty of Law, Groningen University, the
Netherlands
- Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
- Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
- Daniela Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques, Italian National Research Council
- Joshua H. Walker, CodeX, Stanford University
- Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands