Call for Papers
We encourage the submission of original contributions on both topics (IR and AI) related to legal issues. Treating legal documents as the hypertexts they are by now, this workshop sheds light on this topic as an interesting and challenging use case for the audience of the HT'23 conference which is hosting this workshop. Given the availability of legal documents online, their binding nature and relevance for businesses, institutions, and individuals in their daily lives, it is evident that developing systems that help gather and understand relevant information is crucial.
Topics
The core topics of this workshop are:
Hypertext-based legal systems
Legal information retrieval
Legal information extraction
Legal knowledge graphs
Relation extraction from legal documents
Explainability in legal document retrieval
High-recall settings in legal document retrieval
Legal ontologies
Legal document formats
FAIR publication of legal documents
Well-motivated submissions related to (but not directly fitting) one of the core topics are also welcome.
Use Cases
Some example use cases relevant for this workshop are:
Publication of legislation and other legal documents on official portals (e.g., EUR-Lex, Legislation.gov.uk, govinfo.org) complying with FAIR principles.
Organization of legislation and other legal documents (e.g., Linguistic Legal Linked Open Data (LLLOD), Lynx).
Languages for the publication of legal documents in a machine-readable form (e.g., Akoma Ntoso, Metalex, Crown Legislation Markup Language, NIR, Formex, LegalHTML).
Identification schemes (e.g., Akoma Ntoso naming convention, ELI scheme) for citing documents or portions thereof.
Consolidation of changes brought to a legal document by amending documents and corrigenda, and construction of point-in-time views of documents.
Legal Assistants accessing external knowledge through hyperlinks.
Hypertext use in educational settings in the legal domain.
Legal advisory systems linking commentary to their results, similar use cases in comparative law.
In some use cases, such as patent retrieval and compliance checking, legal practitioners often face challenges in finding all relevant documents. In such challenging settings, legal systems need to fulfill the requirements of high recall and explainability to be of value for legal practitioners.
Paper Submission
We solicit the submission of the following contribution types:
Regular papers have 10-14 "standard" pages excluding references
Short papers should have 5-9 "standard" pages excluding references
Industrial and Demo papers should have 2-4 "standard" pages excluding references
Position papers and Discussions on emerging topics should have 2-4 "standard" pages excluding references
Late breaking papers to share preliminary results that can stimulate discussions should have 5-9 "standard" pages excluding references
Papers should be formatted in one-column format, following the official templates and requirements of CEUR-WS:
You can download the CEUR-ART template for Word (DOCX) and LaTeX here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip;
You can alternatively use the Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lirai23
Submitted papers must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal at the time of submission.
All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee through a single-blind peer-review process, based on their originality, technical quality, clarity and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published as open access joint workshop proceedings via CEUR-WS.org
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the workshop, and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.