ICAIL 2015 - 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015)

The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2015) will be held at the University of San Diego School of Law from Monday, June 8 to Friday, June 12, 2015.
Artificial Intelligence and Law is a vibrant research field that focuses on:
Legal reasoning and development of computational methods of such reasoning
Applications of AI and other advanced information technologies that are intended to support the legal domain
Discovery of electronically stored information for legal applications (eDiscovery)
Machine learning and data mining for legal applications
Formal models of norms, normative systems, and norm-governed societies
Since it began in 1987, the ICAIL conference has been established as the primary international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and Law. It is organized biennially under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). The conference proceedings are published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL papers.
The field serves as an excellent setting for AI researchers to demonstrate the application of their work in a rich, real-world domain. The conference also serves as a venue for researchers to showcase their work on the theoretical foundations of computational models of law. Accordingly, authors are invited to submit papers on a broad spectrum of research topics that include, but are not restricted to:
Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
Computational models of argumentation and decision making
Computational models of evidential reasoning
Legal reasoning in multi-agent systems
Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
Automatic legal text classification and summarization
Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
Data mining applied to the legal domain
Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
E-government, e-democracy and e-justice
Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
Modeling negotiation and contract formation
Online dispute resolution
Intelligent legal tutoring systems
Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems
ICAIL is keen to broaden its scope to include topics of growing importance in artificial intelligence research. Therefore, papers are invited on the following featured categories:
eDiscovery and eDisclosure
Open data, linked data, and big data
Machine learning
Argument mining
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 applications should describe clearly the underlying motivations, 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 submitted paper, a two-page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review, via the conference support system and following the conference style, by the demo submission deadline of January 23, 2015. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are connected to a paper in the main track, no separate statement about the demonstration need be submitted, but the author(s) should send an email to the Program Chair by the demo submission deadline to register their interest in demonstrating their work at this session.
ICAIL Workshops and Tutorials
ICAIL 2015 will include workshops and tutorials on Monday, June 8 and Friday, June 12. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are invited, and should be sent by email 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 2015
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’ background in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including web pages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable)