Elsevir SIGR 2011 Application Challenge (CFS)

 

http://developer.sciverse.com/SIGIR2011

When?

The Elsevier SIGIR 2011 Application Challenge opens at June 6. The submission deadline is July 23, 2011, preceding the 34th ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference in Beijing, China.

Twitter: follow us @sciversedev or #els-sigir11

How to register?

Registration will soon officially open when our registration tool goes live. Until then, you can pre-register by sending an email to challenge-register@elsevier.com with SIGIR 2011 in the subject line. Include your firstname, lastname and your affiliation. You will receive an email with instructions to complete registration once the registration officially opens.

IP rights

The IP rights of the application remain fully the property of the developers.

Prizes

1. First prize: 1,500 USD (VISA gift card)

2. Second prize: 1,000 USD (VISA gift card)

3. Third prize: 500 USD (VISA gift card)

Official Rules

To read the full Terms and Conditions, go to http://developer.sciverse.com/sigir2011/rules.

Important Dates

Startdate: June 6, 2011
Enddate: July 23, 2011
Judging starts: July 24, 2011
Judging ends: July 26, 2011
Announcement of the Winners: July 26, 2011

Who can participate?

Individual entrants must have registered for the 34^th ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference and must be present at the conference in Beijing, China from July 24-28, 2011, to be eligible.   At least one member of a team must have registered at the 34^th ACM SIGIR 2011 Conference, and at least one member of the team must be present at the conference in Beijing, China to be eligible.

Login

Go to http://developers.sciverse.com/home/my-projects . Click on the "Login" link in the top right of the page. Enter the username and password for your Sciverse profile. You should be redirected to the SciVerse Application Platform and your name should appear on the top right of the page indicating you are logged in.

Get an API Key

You'll need an API key to build your app. To get one, click the "Start a new project" button. Give it a unique Application Name, read through and agree to the developer agreement, then click "Create Project". You should now be on the edit screen. Here you can find your API key and upload and save your application or gadget xml file.

Build Your Application

To create an application you can use Eclipse and the SciVerse SDK containing the plug-in for Eclipse. Download the SDK and read detailed installation instructions on http://developer.sciverse.com/sdk .

Run your Application Online

To run your app online in the live SciVerse environment upload your application’s xml file to your project in ‘my projects’http://developers.sciverse.com/home/my-projects.

Documentation and Help

Get familiar with SciVerse applications by downloading the SciVerse Starter Kit, available at http://goo.gl/Yfh5Q. For SciVerse documentation: http://developer.sciverse.com/learn . If you need additional help getting started or have questions about the  SciVerse Content or Framework APIs, send an email to developer@elsevier.com .

How to submit your application?

Participants must register before submitting an application. To submit an application go tohttp://developers.sciverse.com/home/my-projects.

1. Login: Click on the "Login" link in the top right of the page. Enter the username and password for your Sciverse profile.
2. Give the Application a unique Application Name.
3. Agree to the Developer Agreement: Read through and agree to the developer agreement, then click "Create Project".
4. Provide Application Details: You are now be on the edit screen. Here you find the API key for your Application and you can upload and save your application or gadget xml file. Complete the Application details form.
5. Submit: To submit your application after reviewing all changes made to the application, click the submit button to submit your application. After you submit your application your application will be locked and you will not be able to make any further changes to your application. If you need to make changes to a locked application, please send an email tochallenge-support@elsevier.com and include your application’s name and your username.

More Information

For questions email Remko Caprio, Developer Platform Evangelist at developer@elsevier.com or challenge-info@elsevier.com.

RuleML2011@BRF – Call for Papers

NEW DEADLINE: Paper submission June, 12, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
                              RuleML2011@BRF
                      5th International Symposium on
              Linked Rules: Research-Based, Industry-Focused
            Westin Diplomat, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 3-5 November 2011
http://2011.ruleml.org/america
About RuleML 2011@BRF
---------------------
In 2011, two instalments of the RuleML Symposium will take place. The first
one will be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, in
July.
The second one will be co-located with the Business Rule Forum to be held in
early November in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The second instalment will
include the RuleML Challenge Award which, this year, is dedicated to
Rules and Ontologies.
Objectives
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RuleML-2011@BRF is a research-based, industry-focused symposium: its
main goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry in the field
of rules and semantic technology, and so to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together
rule system providers,participants in rule standardization efforts, open
source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the
symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid
progress in practical rule and event processing technologies.
As a result, RuleML-2011 will feature hands-on demonstrations and
challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks.
It will thus be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and share
experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration,
interoperation, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise intranets
and open environments alike.
Topics
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As in the previous years, the Symposium will be organized in tracks;
specifically, the RuleML-2011@BRF focus will be on the following areas:
*** Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards
*** Rules and Automated Reasoning
*** Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems
*** Rule Transformation and Extraction
*** Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Business rules
*** NIEM and Rules
*** Cloud Computing and Rules
*** Fuzzy Rules and Uncertainty
*** Rules and Norms
*** Rule-Based Policies, Reputation and Trust
*** Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
*** General Topics
Submissions on general rule topics are welcome, such as:
- Progress in rule language specification (in XML Schema, Relax NG, etc.)
- Implemented tools for rule bases (e.g. XML and RDF rule validators)
- Rule interchange and reasoning
- Execution models, rule engines, and development environments
- Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules
- Rules and NLP
- Rule-based applications
- Usability and effectiveness of rule-based systems and languages
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2011 Challenge
---------------------
The RuleML-2011 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2011.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications, one for the
focus theme and one for the other categories.
This year, the Challenge will be focused on the theme:
***Combining Rules, Objects, and Ontologies: Implementations and
Applications***
The call for demos is available on:
http://2011.ruleml.org/america/challenge
Submission Guidelines
---------------------
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies
or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and
may be submitted at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2011brf
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
The selected demo papers will be published in CEUR proceedings.
Important Dates
---------------
Abstract submission: May 22, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Paper submission: June, 12, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Notification to authors: July, 11, 2011
Camera-ready copy due: July 29, 2011
RuleML-2010 Challenge Demos submission: Sept. 2, 2011
RuleML-2011 dates: Nov 3-5, 2011
LA RICERCA C’È E SI VEDE:
5 per mille all'Università di Bologna - C.F.: 80007010376
http://www.unibo.it/Vademecum5permille.htm
Questa informativa è inserita in automatico dal sistema al fine esclusivo della realizzazione dei fini istituzionali dell’ente.

ICAL 2011 – Early Registration

*** Early registration ends Monday, May 9 ***

If you have not yet registered for ICAIL, please remember that early registration ends Monday at midnight (Eastern Standard Time).  The rates will go up after that.  The site for registration is www.conftool.net/icail2011.


*** Revised schedule for workshops and tutorials ***

It has unfortunately become necessary to make some schedule changes.  As is shown below, one Monday workshop has been cancelled; one Friday workshop has been shortened to a half day; and another Friday workshop has been moved from morning to afternoon.

We realize that some of you have already registered for the events affected.  If you would now like to change your selections for Monday or Friday, please send an email to the conference secretary at gardner.anne@sbcglobal.net, or just reply to this message.

MONDAY, JUNE 6

WM1. E-discovery: Standards-Setting Workshop  (DESI IV) (full-day workshop)
WM3. Computational Law: a Bridge towards Business Rules (full-day workshop)
TM1. Textual Information Extraction from Legal Resources Using GATE (morning tutorial)

Cancelled:  WM2. Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

WF1. AI & Evidential Inference (full-day workshop)
WF2. Legal Applications of Human Language Technology (morning workshop, formerly full day)
TF1. LegalRuleML (morning tutorial)
WF3. Artificial Intelligence, Coherence and Judicial Reasoning (afternoon workshop, formerly scheduled for the morning)

SIRE 2011–Information Retrieval for E-discovery

Please send replies or questions to Doug Oard (oard@umd.edu)

 

Call for Submissions
SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval for E-discovery (SIRE)
July 28, 2011, Beijing, China
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/sire11/
 
A workshop held in conjunction with the 2011 
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Electronic discovery ("e-discovery") is the use of Information Retrieval (IR) technology to find evidence requested by a party in a legal matter. This application of IR has grown explosively in recent years.  The SIRE workshop will provide a forum for discussion of IR techniques that have or that could be applied to e-discovery, as well as methods for evaluating the effectiveness and cost of such approaches.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Distributed search of large heterogeneous enterprise information systems, including corporate intranets, archival and backup repositories, cloud-based storage, etc.
• High-recall search of large collections, including those with high densities of relevant documents
• Supervised learning of classifiers for responsiveness, privilege and other factors of interest (sometimes referred to in e-discovery as predictive coding)
• IR techniques that leverage the characteristics of specific types of business records (email, instant messages, voice mail, file systems, etc.)
• Clustering, link analysis, and other methods for discovering structure in large collections, including detection of duplicate documents
• Process design for human-in-the-loop review and exploitation of large data sets, including measurement of inter-reviewer consistency, active learning, etc.
• Evaluation design, including sampling strategies, estimation of confidence intervals, and reusability of large test collections

Submissions: 
 
As we presently conceive the workshop, the first session will lay out the nature of e-discovery, thus making the workshop accessible to SIGIR attendees with no prior e-discovery experience. A keynote talk will be followed by a panel discussion by senior IR and e-discovery experts, with substantial time for audience interaction. The second session will then focus on IR techniques. The third session, after lunch, will focus on evaluation. In both cases, the goal will be to dive deeply into specific issues. For the second and third sessions we envision a "discussant" structure in which the talks will be followed by comments from a discussant who seeks to critique, contrast, and/or provoke.  The fourth session will feature a moderated panel discussion focused on crafting a research agenda. The goal will be to identify key issues, venues for action, communities with which to engage, and support to seek. Two types of written contributions are therefore invited:
 
·         Brief (typically 1-2 page) position papers describing individual interests, for inclusion (without review) on the SIRE Web site and distribution to workshop participants.  Brief descriptions of this type can be particularly valuable for workshop like this one in which we seek to bring together diverse research communities.  Additionally, these papers can help with our selection of discussion leaders, discussants, and panelists.  Position papers are requested by June 3, 2011.  Participation in the workshop is open, so prior submission of position papers is strongly encouraged, but not strictly required.    
 
·         Original research papers (4-10 pages).  After peer review, accepted papers will be posted on the SIRE website and made available in hard-copy to workshop participants.  Authors of accepted research papers will be invited to present their work either as an oral or a poster presentation.  Research papers are due on May 13, 2011; decisions will be returned by June 3, 2011.
 
Submissions should be sent by email to Doug Oard (oard@umd.edu) with the subject line SIRE POSITION PAPER or SIRE RESEARCH PAPER.  All submissions received will be acknowledged within 3 days.    
 
Organizing Committee:
 
Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration, USA
Maura Grossman, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, USA
Dave Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting, USA
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

ICAIL 2011 – Workshops and Tutorials

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
Workshops and Tutorials

The ICAIL 2011 organizers are pleased to report that the conference will include six workshops and two tutorials.  They are listed below, along with the tentative schedule,  the names of the organizers, and the web sites where fuller descriptions and calls for workshop papers can be found.
All workshop and tutorial participants will be expected to register for ICAIL 2011.  For those not wishing to attend the full conference, a one-day registration rate will be available.  Registration for the full conference will include the workshops and tutorials at no extra charge.  We will send another mailing when registration opens, probably in early April.
Monday, June 6, 2011

WM1. E-discovery: Standards-Setting Workshop  (DESI IV) (full day workshop)
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/desi4/
Deadlines:  research papers April 1; position papers April 22
        Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration, USA
        Laura Ellsworth, Jones Day, USA
        Dave Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting, USA
        Debra Logan, Gartner Research, UK
        Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

WM2. Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law (Monday afternoon workshop)
http://www.leibnizcenter.org/2011-workshop-on-agent-model-based-reasoning-in-law
Deadline:  March 14 (tentative)
        Alexander Boer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
        Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
        Guido Boella, University of Turino, Italy

WM3. Computational Law: a Bridge towards Business Rules (full day workshop)
http://decibel.cirsfid.unibo.it/icail2011-workshop/
Deadline:  April 20
        Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
        Michael Genesereth, Stanford University, USA
        Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia

TM1. Textual Information Extraction from Legal Resources Using GATE (Monday morning tutorial)
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/02/19/textual-information-extraction-from-legal-resources-using-gate/
        Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK
Friday, June 10, 2011

WF1. AI & Evidential Inference (full day workshop)
http://tillers.net/ai/workshop2011.html
        Henry Prakken, University of Groningen and University of Utrecht, Netherlands
        Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
        Doug Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
        Peter Tillers, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, USA

WF2. Legal Applications of Human Language Technology (full day workshop)
http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/01/29/icail-workshop-applying-human-language-technology-to-the-law/
Deadline: March 31
        Karl Branting, The MITRE Corporation, USA
        Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool, UK

WF3. Artificial Intelligence, Coherence and Judicial Reasoning (Friday morning workshop)
http://coherence2011.wordpress.com/
Deadline:  abstracts April 15; papers tba
        Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University,Poland
        Jaromir Savelka, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

TF1. LegalRuleML (Friday morning tutorial)
http://decibel.cirsfid.unibo.it/icail2011-workshop/
        Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, Canada
        Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
        Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
        Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
        Guido Governatori, NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia

IRIS 2011 – Int. Rechtsinformatik Symposion

Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 2011, 24.-26.2.2011, Salzburg (AT)

Sehr geehrte Teilnehmer und Freunde des Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions!
Das Programm des IRIS2011 ist nun über die Homepage
www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011 ... Programm verfügbar.

Unter dem Generalthema Europäische Projektkultur als Beitrag zur Rationalisierung des Rechts werden über 120 SprecherInnen sich mit den aktuellen Fragen der Rechtsinformatik auseinandersetzen. Am Donnerstagabend lädt die UBIT zum Zukunftsforum „Grenzkontrolle Internet: Eine Diskussion über Sperren und Zensur im World Wide Web“. Für weitere Spannung sorgen die Verleihungen des LexisNexis Best Paper Awards sowie des E-Government Innovationspreises der OCG. Eingeladene Vorträge: Michaela Strasser, Projektkultur im Spiegel der Zeiten, und Thomas Gordon, Perspektiven und Grenzen der künstlichen Intelligenz im Recht.

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos; eine Anmeldung ist erforderlich.

Ich hoffe sehr, Sie beim IRIS2011 in  Salzburg zu sehen!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Erich Schweighofer

Als Programmvorsitzender im Namen des

Programmkomitees und der Organisatoren der IRIS2011

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IRIS2011, 24.-26.2.2011, Call for participation

Dear participants and friends of the International Symposium on Legal Informatics!
The programme of IRIS2011 is available at:
www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011 ... Programm

Under the leading topic European Project Culture as a Contribution to the Rationalisation of Law about 120 speakers will discuss recent topics und questions of legal informatics.

Thursday evening the UBIT will organise the future forum on „Border control Internet: A discussion about blocking and censorship on the web“. Further interest will be generated with the LexisNexis Best Paper Award and the E-Government Award of the OCG. Invited talks: Michaela Strasser, Projektkultur im Spiegel der Zeiten (project culture in the mirror of times), and Thomas Gordon, Perspektiven und Grenzen der künstlichen Intelligenz im Recht (perspectives and limits of artificial intelligence in law). Participation is free but a registration is required.

I hope very much seeing you at IRIS2011 in Salzburg!

With best regards,

Erich Schweighofer

As programme chair on behalf of
Programme Committee and organisers of IRIS2011

Wichtiger Hinweis:

Sollten Sie diese Informationen nicht mehr erhalten wollen, senden Sie bitte diese E-Mail mit dem Vermerk ABMELDUNG anErich.Schweighofer@univie.ac.at zurück. Sie werden umgehend aus dem Verteiler genommen.

ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Erich Schweighofer

Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik

Institut für Europarecht, Internationales Recht und

Rechtsvergleichung, Universität Wien

Schottenbastei 10-16/2/5, 1010 Wien, AT

Tel. +43 1 4277 35305, Fax +43 1 4277 9353

Erich.Schweighofer@univie.ac.at

http://rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at

Bitte um Teilnahme:

IRIS2011, 24.-26.2.2011; Universität Salzburg; www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2011

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AICOL 2011 - AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

AICOL 2011
AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems
http://www.aicol.eu
XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 15-20 AUGUST 2011
Call for papers

OBJECTIVES
Work on Artificial Intelligence and Law has been particularly fruitful in the last decade.
Besides providing advanced computer applications for the legal domain such as knowledge
based systems and intelligent information retrieval, research on AI and law has developed
innovative interdisciplinary models for understanding legal systems and legal reasoning,
which are highly significant for philosophy of law and legal theory. Among such models,
we can mention, for instance, logical frameworks for feasible legal reasoning and dialectical
argumentation, logics of normative positions, theories of case-based reasoning, and
computable models of legal concepts.
Today there is a strong need not only to integrate research in AI and law within legal
theory, but also to encompass the different branches of research in AI and law. When
different branches are developing quickly, the risk is in fact missing the opportunities
to exchange knowledge and methodologies. This is particularly so in the case of 'multiagent
systems'-approach and social network analysis, that share concepts and objects of study,
but often present merely superficial convergences in practice as well as in theory.
Multilingual ontologies provide an important opportunity for integrating different trends
of research in AI and law. The domain of multi-system and multi-lingual ontologies not only
offers the opportunity to integrate artificial intelligence with legal theory, but also with
comparative legal studies. Complexity theory, graph theory, game theory and any other
contributions from the mathematics disciplines could help both to formalize the dynamics of
legal systems and to capture the relationships between norms. Cognitive science could help
the legal ontology modelling by taking into account not only the formal features of the law,
but social behaviour, subjective believes, and cultural factors as well.
The aim of the workshop is thus to offer effective support for the exchange of knowledge and
methodological approaches between scholars from different scientific fields, by highlighting
their similarities and differences.
We are expecting to have contributions that are able to capture this interdisciplinary aspect
and prepare the scientific community to a common ground beyond the state of the art of any
individual discipline.

TOPICS
* Law and Science
* Law and Cognitive Science
* Law and Complexity Theory
* Complex Systems
* Legal Theory
* Legal Culture
* Computer Ethics
* Artificial Societies
* Argumentative Frameworks
* Legal Ontologies
* Legal Concepts
* Legal Thesauri
* Taxonomies
* Natural Language Processing (NLP)
* Legal Knowledge Acquisition
* Legal Knowledge Representation
* Knowledge Management
* Cognitive schemas
* Law and Robotics
* Law and Mathematics
* Legal Graphic Representation
* Game Theory
* Formalization of Legal Systems and Norms
* Rules and Standards
* Agreement technologies
* Electronic Institutions
* Legal Information Retrieval
* Online Dispute Resolution
* Trends in e-Discovery, e-Courts, e-Administration
* Users' studies

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission:                                       May 16th, 2011
Peer Review Communications:             July 6th, 2011
Camera Ready:                                   July 30th, 2011
AICOL Workshop:                                         August 16th, 2011
Publication: November/December 2011 (LNAI volume)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical
rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case demonstrations of effective,
practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments.
Papers must be in English and may be submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicol2011
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
Min.3000 words and max. 15000 words.
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3
PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

PUBLICATIONS
The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer
LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Danièle Bourcier (CERSA-CNRS, Paris, France)
Pompeu Casanovas (UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Barcelona, Spain)
Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID - University of Bologna, Italy)
Ugo Pagallo (University of Turin, Italy)
Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy)