ASAIL 2026
8th Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Law
2026 June 12
Held in hybrid format in conjunction with ICAIL 2026
Held in hybrid format in conjunction with ICAIL 2026
The ASAIL 2026 proceedings will be published later in the year in preparation for the workshop event on 2026/06/12.
All times are provided in the SGT (UTC+8) time zone. We will hold the workshop in YPHSL B2-01 on site at the Yong Pung How School of Law. The link for remote participation will be distributed to workshop registrants. For information about registration for the 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 consist of a series of presentations and close with a panel discussion of key questions and open problems relevant to the session's theme.
For those joining us in person, we will be based in Room B2-01 in the Yong Pung How School of Law.
For those joining us online, the join link will be made available upon the commencement of the workshop.
09:00 (Long Paper) Chunking German Legal Code. Max Prior, Natalia Milanova, Andreas Schultz.
09:20 (Long Paper) Extracting Implicit Legal Rules from Judicial Decisions: A Study of Structured LLM Pipelines. May Myo Zin, Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Georg Borges, Ken Satoh.
09:40 (Long Paper) The Italian Citizenship Law as a Hybrid AI Pipeline. Thiago Dal Pont, Giuseppe Pisano, Francesco Rinaldi, Riccardo Rovatti, Giovanni Sartor.
10:00 Panel discussion on key questions and open problems on the topics of legal text structure, chunking, structured pipelines, and rule extraction.
11:00 (Short Paper) Re-Ranking Through an Attribution Lens for Citation Quality in Legal QA. Mohamed Elganayni, Selim Saleh, Matthias Grabmair.
11:15 (Short Paper) Prompting Beats Fine-Tuning: Generative Expected Value Scoring for Statutory Term Retrieval. Alvin Wang, Jaromir Savelka.
11:30 (Short Paper) CaseArc: Benchmarking End-to-End Legal Timeline Generation. Laetitia von Wedel, Niklas Wais.
11:45 (Short Paper) Peeking Inside LLMs: Leveraging Internal Artifacts of LLMs for Enhancing Reliability in Legal Classification. Sudipta Santra, Debtanu Datta, Saptarshi Ghosh.
12:05 Panel discussion on key questions and open problems on the topics of attribution, explanation, case-law retrieval, timelines, and reliability.
13:30 (Short Paper) Retrieval-Based Multi-Label Legal Annotation: Extensible, Data-Efficient and Hallucination-Free. Li Zhang, Jaromir Savelka, Kevin Ashley.
13:45 (Short Paper) DSA Risk Assessment - Social Media Mental Harm Automatic Annotation Case Study. Tadeusz Zbiegień, Tejas Goyal, Jaromir Savelka, Ewa Ilczuk, Małgorzata Kuśmierczyk, Krystyna Mokrzycka, Przemysław Pałka.
14:00 Panel discussion on key questions and open problems on the topics of annotation, classification, reliability, risk assessment, and evaluation.
14:25 (Short Paper) Do Legal Transplants Preserve Meaning? Semantic Alignment of Directors' Duties Across Jurisdictions. Chian-Yu Ye, Yi-Ting Yu, Shao-Man Lee, Chao-Lin Liu, Zong-Ru Yang.
14:40 (Short Paper) ASEAN Free Trade Agreements: Finding the ASEAN Way Through Text-as-Data Analysis. James Low.
14:55 (Long Paper) Judicial Writing in Comparative Perspective: An Empirical Analysis of Readability and Citation Patterns Across Apex Courts in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore. Kenny Lang.
15:15 Panel discussion on key questions and open problems on the topics of comparative legal analysis, cross-jurisdictional interpretation, institutions, and doctrinal settings.