20.804, Calls: Computational Ling,Forensic Ling/Spain

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Date: 10-Mar-2009
From: Adam Wyner < adam at wyner.info >
Subject: Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation
 

	
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:13:22
From: Adam Wyner [adam at wyner.info]
Subject: Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation

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Full Title: Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation 
Short Title: NaLELA'09 

Date: 12-Jun-2009 - 12-Jun-2009
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Adam Wyner
Meeting Email: adam at wyner.info
Web Site: http://nalea.org/nalela/nalela09.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic
Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation 

Call for Papers

The topic of this workshop is the language, logic, and computation of legal
argumentation:  linguistic analyses of legal argumentation show the lexical
items, syntactic patterns, and discourse structures; logics of argumentation
represent the argument abstractly and enable one to infer justified claims;
computational models support implementations of the logic allowing for automated
inference.  The workshop not only promotes research towards understanding legal
argumentation, but more importantly promotes the development of interactive
prototype systems; such a system allows automated parsing and semantic
translation of arguments; comparison of statements input in natural language
relative to an existing complex argument; calculation of relationships between
statements; inference to justified conclusions in large networks of arguments;
and generation of natural language output or argument graphs.

See the website for further submission information:
http://nalea.org/nalela/nalela09.html

Author Guidelines
- Paper length: max. 10 pages
- Paper format: Springer style format
- Paper Submission: NaLELA 09 at:
 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nalela09

Important Dates
- April 3, 2009: Paper submission
- April 27, 2009: Notification of acceptance
- May 4, 2009: Camera-ready paper
- May 11, 2009: Early registration closes
- June 1, 2009: Regular registration closes
- June 8-12, 2009: ICAIL Conference Dates
- June 12, 2009: Workshop






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