ICAIL 2011 - Call for Papers (revised)

13th International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2011)
June 6 - June 10, 2011
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.law.pitt.edu/icail2011
Call for Papers (revised)

The 13th International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL 2011) will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 6-10, 2011, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law 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.  The conference is held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, www.aaai.org.
The field of AI and Law is concerned with the study of legal reasoning using computational methods; computational models of argumentation; knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining; and the formal representation of norms, normative actions, normative systems, norm-governed societies, and multi-agent systems. The field also includes the investigation of techniques from advanced information technology, using law as the illustrative domain; and applications of advanced information technology to support tasks in the legal domain.
ICAIL provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Previous ICAIL conferences have been held biennially since 1987, with proceedings published by ACM. The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law regularly publishes expanded versions of selected ICAIL papers.
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to

• Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
• Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
• Computational models of argumentation and decision making
• Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
• Computational models of evidential reasoning
• Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
• Modeling negotiation and contract formation
• Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
• Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
• Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
• Intelligent legal tutoring systems
• Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
• E-discovery and e-disclosure
• Automatic legal text classification and summarization
• Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases

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 motivations behind the project, the techniques employed, and the current state of both implementation and evaluation. All papers should make clear their relation to prior work.
Position papers [new]
Since the field of AI and Law is typically multi-disciplinary and evolves in a dynamic environment, some researchers may have undertaken challenging research concerning ideas of interest to the AI and Law community but that has not yet been completely evaluated.  We welcome papers describing such ideas, so-called “position papers."  These papers should nevertheless meet academic standards, particularly addressing the problem(s), scientific and societal relevance, relation to prior research and literature, research methods and approaches.  Position papers do not have to report actual results although preliminary results are appreciated.
Important Dates (tentative):

• Submission of abstracts (optional): January 3, 2011
• Submission of papers: January 10, 2011
• Notification of acceptance: tba
• Final revised and formatted papers due: tba
• Conference: June 6 - June 10, 2011

Submission details [updated]
Papers should not exceed 5000 words.  If an approved style file is used, the maximum length is 10 pages.  Style format template files can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers should be submitted by the above paper submission deadline, in PDF or MS Word format.
To aid the reviewing process, authors are requested to submit abstracts of their papers by the above abstract submission deadline.  Abstracts should include at least the title of the paper, up to four keywords, and a contact address for the author.
Both papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically to the conference support system, https://www.conftool.net/icail2011/.
Authors will be notified of the referees’ decision in March 2011.  Papers not accepted for full publication and presentation may be accepted as short research abstracts.  Papers (including research abstracts) must be presented at the conference in order to appear in the proceedings.  Final versions of papers for publication in the proceedings will be due in April 2011.
Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper
To encourage participation by students, IAAIL has created the Donald H. Berman Award for the best paper submitted to ICAIL by a student or students. The award consists of a cash gift and free attendance at ICAIL 2011. For a paper to be considered for the award, the student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is submitted, and any nonstudent co-authors should provide a statement that the paper is primarily student work. Notification will be made through the ICAIL website, and the award will be presented at the conference banquet.
Conference Officials
Program Chair
Tom van Engers
University of Amsterdam/Faculty of Law
Leibniz Center for Law
www.LeibnizCenter.org
vanEngers@uva.nl
Conference Chair
Kevin D. Ashley
Professor of Law and Intelligent Systems
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Ashley@pitt.edu
Secretary/Treasurer
Anne Gardner
Atherton, California, USA
gardner@cs.stanford.edu
Program Committee Topic Chairpersons
  Argumentation: Prof. dr. Giovanni Sartor
  E-government and lawyering applications: dr. Patries Kordelaar
  Information Retrieval: Dr. Jack Conrad
  Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Acquisition: Prof. dr. Nicola Guarini
  Logic and agents: Prof. dr. Leon van der Torre
  Natural Language Processing: Prof. dr. Francine Moens
Program Committee
Thomas Agotnes, Infomedia, Norway
Alex Artikis, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Floris Bex, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Guido Boella, University of Turino, Italy
Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Karl Branting, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Joost Breuker, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK
Jan Broersen, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Pompeu Casanovas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Jack Conrad, Thomson Reuters, USA
Celia da Costa Pereira, University of Milan, Italy
Bojana Dalbelo Basic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Paolo Di Lucia, University of Lugano, Italy
P.M.D. Dung, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Nicoletta Fornara, University of Lugano, Italy
Enrico Francesconi, CNR ITTIG, Italy
Dov Gabbay, King’s College London, UK
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
Davide Grossi, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy
Ben Hachey, Macquarie University, Australia
Carole Hafner, Northeastern University, USA
Jaap Hage, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Bruce Hedin, H5, USA
Rinke Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters, USA
Wojtek Jamroga, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
David Koepsell, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Patries Kordelaar, Leibniz Foundation for Law, Netherlands
Jerome Lang, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France
Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal, Canada
David D. Lewis, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Arno Lodder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Emiliano Lorini, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France
Michael Luck, King’s College London, UK
L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University, USA
Sien Moens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Jan Odelstad, University of Gävle, Sweden
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
Gabriella Pigozzi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Henry Prakken, University of Groningen and University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
Uri Schild, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Frank Schilder, Technical University of Danmark, Denmark
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Marek Sergot, Imperial College London, UK
Daniela Tiscornia, CNR ITTIG, Italy
Viviane Torres da Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminente - UFF , Brazil
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leon van der Torre, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Doug Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK