22.694, Calls: Comp Ling, Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 22.694, Calls: Comp Ling, Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: 08-Feb-2011
From: Adam Wyner [adam at wyner.info]
Subject: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:36:17
From: Adam Wyner [adam at wyner.info]
Subject: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law

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Full Title: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law 
Short Title: AHLTL 2011 

Date: 10-Jun-2011 - 10-Jun-2011
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 
Contact Person: Adam Wyner
Meeting Email: adam at wyner.info
Web Site: 
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/01/29/icail-
workshop-applying-human-language-technology-to-the-law/ 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2011 

Meeting Description:

Over the last decade there have been dramatic improvements in the 
effectiveness and accuracy of Human Language Technology (HLT), 
accompanied by a significant expansion of the HLT community itself. Over 
the same period, there have been widespread developments in web-based 
distribution and processing of legal textual information, e.g. cases, 
legislation, citizen information sources, etc. More recently, a growing body 
of research and practice has addressed a range of topics common to both 
the HLT and Artificial Intelligence and Law communities, including 
automated legal reasoning and argumentation, semantic information 
retrieval, cross and multi-lingual information retrieval, document 
classification, logical representations of legal language, dialogue systems, 
legal drafting, legal knowledge discovery and extraction, linguistically based 
legal ontologies, among others. Central to these shared topics is use of HLT 
techniques and tools for automating knowledge extraction from legal texts 
and for processing legal language.

The workshop has several objectives. The first objective is to broaden the 
research base by introducing HLT researchers to the materials and 
problems of processing legal language. The second objective is to introduce 
AI and Law researchers to up-to-date theories, techniques, and tools from 
HLT, which can be applied to legal language. And the third objective is to 
deepen the existing research streams. Altogether, the interactions among 
the researchers are expected to advance research and applications and 
foster interdisciplinary collaboration within the legal domain. 

Call for Papers:

The workshop will focus on extraction of information from legal text, 
presentations of legal language (ontologies and semantic translations), and 
dialogic aspects.  While information extraction and retrieval are crucial 
areas, the workshop emphasizes syntactic, semantic, and dialogic aspects 
of legal information processing:

- Building legal resources: terminologies, ontologies, corpora
- Ontologies of legal texts, including subareas such as ontology acquisition, 
ontology customization, ontology merging, ontology extension, ontology 
evolution, lexical information, etc.
- Information retrieval and extraction from legal texts
- Semantic annotation of legal texts
- Multilingual aspects of legal text semantic processing
- Legal thesauri mapping
- Automatic classification of legal documents
- Automated parsing and translation of natural language arguments into a 
logical formalism
- Linguistically-oriented XML mark up of legal arguments
- Computational theories of argumentation that is suitable to natural 
language
- Controlled language systems for law
- Name matching and alias detection
- Dialogue protocols and systems for legal discussion

Author Guidelines:

The workshop solicits full papers and position papers.  Authors are welcome 
to submit tentative, incremental, and exploratory studies which examine HLT 
issues distinctive to the law and legal applications.  Papers not accepted as 
full papers may be accepted as short research abstracts.  Submissions will 
be evaluated by the program committee.

For information on submission details (length, format, notion of position 
paper, etc.) see the ICAIL 2011 conference information:

http://www.law.pitt.edu/icail2011/call-for-papers

Submissions should be submitted electronically in PDF to the EasyChair site 
by the deadline (see important dates below):

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahltl2011

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline:  31 March 2011 by 00:00 EST
Acceptance notification sent:  15 April 2011
Final version deadline:  15 May 2011
Workshop date:  10 June 2011

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