Next summer, two conferences will be held in Australia that may
be of interest to some on this list. On June 26-27, the Australian
Legal Information Institute (AustLII) will host a conference on
Law and the Internet. The mission of AustLII is to create a public
freely-available law library on the Internet, and to convince governments,
courts, etc. in other countries to do the same. To learn more about
AustLII, consult their World Wide Web site: http://www.austlii.edu.au/.
I do not yet have a formal announcement or a program for this meeting,
since it is still being planned. However, I believe at least one
session will be concerned with the development of an international
standard for marking up legal text. This effort is currently being
initiated by the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) at the
University of Montreal. I believe AustLII are still open to offers and
suggestions from other groups to participate in the program.
I will post a formal announcement of the AustLII meeting on this list some
time in January, but meanwhile it is possible to contact the organizer,
Prof. Graham Greenleaf, Faculty of Law, University of New South
Wales: graham@austlii.edu.au.
Following the AustLII conference, the 6th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Law will be held Jun 30 -July 3 at the University
of Melbourne. The first day of the conference will be devoted to tutorials:
1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Law, by Donald Berman
of Northeastern Law School and Kevin Ashley of the University of Pittsburgh.
2. Automated Legal Practice Systems, by Larry Farmer of BYU Law School.
3. Legal Research on the Internet by Graham Greenleaf, Director of AustLII.
4. Applications of Machine Learning to Legal Information Systems by
John Zeleznikow, Professor of Computer Science at LaTrobe University.
The next 3 days are devoted to research presentations and panels on
a variety of topics including legal expert systems, case-based reasoning,
formal and computer models of legal argument, intelligent text retrieval,
computer-based legal ontologies (i.e. thesaurii).
Below I have attached the formal Call for Papers. If you would like to
receive a registration packet, please let me know. (The registration
packet will include suggestions for travel arrangements.)
Thanks,
Carole Hafner
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* College of Computer Science Phone: (617) 373-5116 *
* Northeastern University FAX: (617) 373-5121 *
* Boston, MA 02115 USA http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/hafner/ *
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Call for Papers
Sixth International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW
June 30 -July 3, 1997
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Sponsored by:
The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)
The University of Melbourne
In Cooperation with:
ACM SIGART
The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
The field of AI and law covers:
* the investigation of legal reasoning using computational methods
* applications that use AI techniques to support tasks in the legal domain
* the investigation of AI techniques using law as the example domain
This International Conference will again be held under the auspices of the
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an
organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of
AI and Law with members throughout the world. ICAIL-97 will provide a forum
for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and
practical applications and will stimulate interdisciplinary and international
collaboration in the AI and Law community. Previous meetings of the
International Conference have taken place in Boston (1987), Vancouver (1989),
Oxford (1991), Amsterdam (1993) and College Park, Maryland (1995).
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not limited to:
* Representation of Legal Knowledge
* Applications of Machine Learning to Law
* Case-Based Legal Reasoning
* Intelligent Information Retrieval
* Legal Tutoring systems
* Legal Expert Systems
We invite papers on theoretical issues in AI and in jurisprudence or legal
philosophy provided that the relevance to AI and Law is demonstrated. Papers
on applications should include a description of the nature and purpose of
the application, the techniques employed, and the current state of
implementation. Submissions must be received by February 15, 1997. Papers
should not exceed 5000 words. Short papers not exceeding 2500 words are also
invited, particularly in the area of applications experience. Accepted
papers will appear in the Proceedings of the Conference, which will be
published by ACM. There will also be poster sessions for presentation of
ongoing research, as well as submitted papers that could not be accommodated
in the regular conference program. To submit a poster, send a 1-3 page
abstract to the Program Chair by the deadline for submitted papers.
Some financial assistance will be available for full time students and
recent post-doctoral scholars who are authors of accepted papers to travel
to Australia. A letter requesting such assistance should be included with
paper submissions.
All papers will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. To assist
the reviewing process, we request that authors send an e-mail abstract to the
programme chair by January 15, 1997. This abstract should include the title
of the paper, up to four keywords and a contact address for the main author.
Papers must be submitted by sending six (6) copies of the complete paper to
the Program Chair. Only hard copy submissions of full papers will be accepted.
General Chair: John Zeleznikow
Applied Computing Research Institute
La Trobe University
Bundoora Victoria Australia 3083
johnz@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au
Phone: 61.3.9479 1003 Fax: 61.3.9479 3060
Co-Chair: Dan Hunter:
Law and Artificial Intelligence Research Project
Law School - University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
dah@rumpole.law.unimelb.edu.au
dah29@cam.ac.uk
Programme Chair: Donald H. Berman
Northeastern University School of Law
400 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 USA
berman@ccs.neu.edu
Phone: (617) 373-4551 Fax: (617) 373-5056
Secretary/Treasurer: Carole Hafner
College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115 USA
hafner@ccs.neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-5116 Fax: 617-373-5121
Program Committee
Layman Allen, University of Michigan, USA
Kevin Ashley, Univ. Pittsburgh, USA
Trevor Bench-Capon, Univ. Liverpool, UK
Karl Branting, University of Wyoming, USA
Thomas Gordon, GMD, Bonn, Germany
Graham Greenleaf, Sydney, Australia
Andrew Jones, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA
Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Instit. Technology, Japan
Henry Prakken, Free Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Edwina Rissland, Univ. of Mass., USA
Giovanni Sartor, IDG, Florence, Italy
Marek Sergot, Imperial College, UK
== Key Dates==
* Submission of electronic abstract (optional): January 15, 1997
* Submission of hard copy of full paper: February 15, 1997
* Notification of acceptance: April 10, 1997.
* Camera-ready copies due: May 23, 1997
IAAIL World Wide Web site (includes Tables of Contents of prior ICAIL's):
http://nathan.gmd.de/iaail/iaail.html
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