Schedule

June 21, Room B-3225, 3rd floor of Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant, Université de Montréal

Proceedings are published and available here.

• 8:50-9:00. Opening

• 9-10:30am: Session 1 - Capturing Legal Discourse

  • Vern R. Walker, Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt, Alexandra M. Davidson, Marysa Linares and Domenick J. Pesce, Automatic Classification of Rhetorical Roles for Sentences: Comparing Rule-Based Scripts with Machine Learning

  • Prakash Poudyal, Teresa Goncalves and Paulo Quaresma, Using clustering techniques to identify arguments in legal documents

  • Gathika Ratnayaka, Thejan Rupasinghe, Nisansa de Silva, Viraj Gamage, Menuka Warushavithana and Shehan Perera, Shift-of-Perspective Identification Within Legal Cases

• 10:30-11am: Coffee Break

• 11am-11:50am: Session 2 - Reformulation & Segmentation

  • Arunprasath Shankar and Venkata Nagaraju Buddarapu, Legal Query Reformulation using Deep Learning

  • Alexander Lyte and Karl Branting, Document Segmentation Labeling Techniques for Court Filings

• 11:50am-12:40pm: Session 3 - Court Document Analysis

  • Saurabh Chakravarty, Raja Venkata Satya Phanindra Chava and Edward Fox, Dialog Acts Classification for Question-Answer Corpora

  • Wai Mok and Jonathan Mok, Classification of Breach of Contract Court Decision Sentences

• 12:40-2pm: Lunch Break

• 2-2:50pm: Session 4 - Analyzing Codification

  • Ilaria Amantea, Llio Humphreys, Emilio Sulis and Luigi Di Caro, Modelling Norm Types and their Inter-relationships in EU Directives

  • Ruta Liepina, Marco Lippi, Paolo Torroni, Giovanni Sartor, Hans-W Micklitz, Francesca Lagioia, Przemysław Pałka and Kasper Drazewski, GDPR Privacy Policies: Three Challenges for the AI and Law Research

• 2:50-3:30: Session 5 - Unsupervised Methods on Legal Data

  • Linyuan Tang and Kyo Kageura, An Examination of the Validity of General Word Embedding Models for Processing Japanese Legal Texts

  • Łukasz Górski, Analysing the legal change. Clustering of Polish Civil Code amendments

• 3:30-4pm - Coffee Break

• 4-4:30pm - Session 5 - Machine Learning Method Challenges on Legal Data

  • Venkata Nagaraju Buddarapu and Arunprasath Shankar, Data Shift in Legal AI Systems

• 4:30-5pm - Discussion

• 5pm - Closing

Workshop Description

The original workshop description and call for papers can be found here.

Organizing Committee

• Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh

• Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool

• Karl Branting, MITRE Corporation

• Enrico Francesconi, Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR), Publications Office of the EU

• Matthias Grabmair, Carnegie Mellon University

• Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

• Bernhard Waltl, BMW Group AG

• Adam Wyner, Swansea University

Program Committee

• Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich

• Floris Bex, Utrecht University

• Chris Giannella, MITRE Corporation

• Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta

• Jörg Landthaler, Technical University of Munich

• Jaromir Savelka, University of Pittsburgh

• Tran Thi Oanh, Vietnam National University

• Giulia Venturi, ItaliaNLP Lab

• Hannes Westermann, University of Montreal

• Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam