JURISIN 2021: Fifteenth International Workshop on Juris-informatics Tokyo, Japan, November 13-15, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.kl.itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/jurisin2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2021 |
Submission deadline | August 31, 2021 |
Aims and Scope
Juris-informatics is a new research area that 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 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 We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies, and applications on juris-informatics.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
- Computer-aided legal education
- Use of Informatics and AI in law
- Legal issues on applications of robotics and AI to society
- Social implications of the use of informatics and AI in law
- AI and intellectual property
- Natural language processing for legal knowledge
- Legal data mining
- Legal document analysis
- Legal information retrievalLegal information extraction
- Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
- Online dispute resolutionEvidential reasoning
- Application of Bayesian Network to law
- AI application to forensics
- AI application to smart contracts and blockchain
- Legislation support by AI/IT techniques
- Any theories and technologies which is not directly related to juris-informatics but has the potential to contribute to this domain
Submissions
Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2021.
Post Proceedings
We are now negotiating with Springer Verlag about publishing selected papers of the workshop as a volume of LNAI. If it is the case, the authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings after another round of refereeing.