Proceedings

The ASAIL proceedings have been published and are openly available as CEUR-WS Volume 3441.

Schedule & Registration

All times are provided in the WEST (UTC+0) timezone. The conference link will be distributed to workshop registrants. For information about registration for workshop as well as information concerning the main conference please see the ICAIL website.

The workshop will consist of four paper sessions. Each session will close with a twenty minute panel discussion of key questions and open problems relevant to the paper session's theme.

For those joining us in person, we will be in room 0.11.

For those joining us online, the zoom link should be emailed to you. Anyone who has registered and not received the link should contact Jack Mumford (details at bottom of page). 

09:00 - Workshop Opening (preface)

09:05-10:35 - Session 1: Language Models in the Legal Domain

Chair: Hannes Westermann

• (Long paper) Can GPT-4 Support Analysis of Textual Data in Tasks Requiring Highly Specialized Domain Expertise? Jaromir Savelka, Kevin Ashley, Morgan Gray, Hannes Westermann and Huihui Xu.

• (Short paper) Towards Meaningful Paragraph Embeddings for Data-Scarce Domains: A Case Study in the Legal Domain. Elize Herrewijnen and Dennis Craandijk.

• (Short paper) Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models with Sentence Position Embeddings for Rhetorical Roles recognition in Legal Opinions. Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez and Laura Monceaux.

• (Long paper) Automatic Rhetorical Roles Classification for Legal Documents using LEGAL-TransformerOverBERT. Gabriele Marino, Daniele Licari, Praveen Bushipaka, Giovanni Comandé and Tommaso Cucinotta.

• Panel discussion on key questions and open problems for Language Models in the Legal Domain.

10:35-11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 - Session 2: Automatic Legal Knowledge Extraction

Chair: Jack Mumford

• (Long paper) Bridging the Gap: Mapping Layperson Narratives to Legal Issues with Language Models. Hannes Westermann, Sébastien Meeùs, Mia Godet, Aurore Troussel, Jinzhe Tan, Jaromir Savelka and Karim Benyekhlef.

• (Long paper) Taking the Law More Seriously by Investigating Design Choices in Machine Learning Prediction Research. Cor Steging, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij.

• (Long paper) Semantic Extraction of Key Figures and Their Properties from Tax Legal Texts Using Neural Models. Daniel Steinigen, Marcin Namysl, Markus Hepperle, Jan Krekeler and Susanne Landgraf.

• (Long paper) Contrast is All You Need. Burak Kilic, Floris Bex and Albert Gatt.

• (Long paper) Organizing the Unorganized: A Novel Approach for Transferring a Taxonomy of Labels into Flat-Labeled Document Collections. Michele Colombino, Laurentiu Jr Marius Zaharia, Giorgia Iacobellis, Rachele Mignone, Ivan Spada, Chiara Bonfanti, Emilio Sulis, Luigi Di Caro and Guido Boella.

• Panel discussion on key questions and open problems for Automatic Legal Knowledge Extraction.

13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 - Session 3: Applied Legal Case Analysis

Chair: Daphne Odekerken

• (Long paper) Chasing the invisible in the grammar of repetitions: a network analysis approach to fiscal State aids. Galileo Sartor, Piera Santin and Luigi Di Caro.

• (Short paper) Applying NLP to support legal decision-making in administrative appeal boards in the EU. Henrik Palmer Olsen, Malte Højmark-Bertelsen and Sebastian Schwemer.

• (Long paper) LexKey: A Keyword Generator for Legal Documents. Benjamin Cérat, Olivier Salaün, Noreddine Ben Jillali, Marc-André Morissette, Isabela Pocovnicu, Emma Elliott and François Harvey.

• (Short paper) CaseScope: An enhanced search tool for European Court cases. Alexandre Correia, Pedro Evangelista, Nádia Soares, Eugénio Rocha and Cláudio Teixeira.

• Panel discussion on key questions and open problems for Applied Legal Case Analysis.

15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break

16:00-17:35 - Session 4: Structured Reasoning in the Legal Context

Chair: Francesca Lagioia

• (Long paper) Toward Implementation Science: A Case Study Using LA-MPS to Research Argument Elements at Scale. Vern Walker and Stephen Strong.

• (Long paper) Argumentative Segmentation Enhancement for Legal Summarization. Huihui Xu and Kevin Ashley.

• (Short paper) Extracting ODRL Digital Right Representations from License Texts using AMR. Malo Revel, Aurélien Lamercerie, Annie Foret and Zoltan Miklos.

• (Long paper) Induction of Narrative Models for Legal Case Elicitation. Karl Branting, Sarah McLeod, Bryant Park, Karine Megerdoomian and Charles Horowitz 

• Panel discussion on key questions and open problems for Structured Reasoning in the Legal Context.

17:35 - Workshop Close