ASAIL 2020
4th Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text
December 9, 2020
Held online in conjunction with Jurix 2020
Proceedings
The ASAIL proceedings have been published and are openly available as CEUR-WS Volume 2764.
Schedule
All times are CET. For information about registration and accessing online sessions please see the JURIX program website: https://jurix2020.law.muni.cz/program
10:15 - Workshop Opening
10:30-12:15 - Paper Session 1
Classification of German Court Rulings: Detecting the Area of Law, Ingo Glaser and Florian Matthes
Legal Language Modeling with Transformers, Lazar Peric, Stefan Mijic, Dominik Stammbach and Elliott Ash
Topic Modelling of the Czech Supreme Court Decisions, Tereza Novotná, Jakub Harašta and Jakub Kól (Short Paper)
Predictive Features of Persuasive Legal Texts, Karl Branting, Elizabeth Tippett, Charlotte Alexander, Sam Bayer, Paul Morawski, Carlos Balhana, and Craig Pfeifer
12:15-13:15 - Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 - Paper Session 2
Cross-Domain Generalization and Knowledge Transfer in Transformers Trained on Legal Data, Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann and Karim Benyekhlef
Automating the Classification of Finding Sentences for Linguistic Polarity, Vern R. Walker, Stephen Strong and Vern E. Walker
Learning to Rank Sentences for Explaining Statutory Terms, Jaromir Savelka and Kevin Ashley
14:45-15:00 - Coffee Break
15:00-17:00 - Discussion Session
“How can legal NLP make real-world contributions in the short and long term?”
Panelists:
Keren Weinshall
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Keren Weinshall is the Vice-Dean at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law, holds the Edward S. Silver Chair in Civil Procedure and is a member of The Israeli Young Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bernhard Waltl
BMW Group AG, Liquid Legal Institute
Bernhard is a computer scientist and interested in technology, and how technology changes the business of law. In 2017 he was an invited researcher at Stanford University Law School (CodeX: Center for Legal Informatics) where he conducted research on text mining and artificial intelligence in the legal domain. He is part of an international network of leading researchers from computer science, and legal informatics.
Rūta Liepiņa
Maatricht University
Rūta Liepiņa is an Assistant Professor in Digital Legal Studies at Maastricht University. Her research interests revolve around the topics of legal reasoning, argumentation, and data science. She's part of the EUI Claudette project and an active member of Maastricht Law and Tech Lab.
Karl Branting
MITRE Corporation
Karl Branting is Chief Scientist, Machine Learning for Computational Law, at the MITRE Corporation. Dr. Branting was the 2004-2005 president of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, recipient of NSF Career and Fulbright Senior Scholar grants, and United States Supreme Court Fellow (2000-2001). Dr. Branting received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, a J.D. from Georgetown University, and a B.A., magna cum laude in philosophy, from the University of Colorado.
Katie Atkinson (Moderator)
University of Liverpool
Katie is Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research within the field of AI and Law focuses on computational argumentation for modelling legal reasoning. She works on fundamental aspects of this topic and has experience of applying her research in practice through collaborative projects with law firms who are looking to deploy efficient, explainable decision support tools.