Call for Papers

Along with the three main themes for this edition, the core topics of this workshop are:

• Hypertext-based legal systems 

• Legal information extraction / retrieval 

• Legal knowledge graphs / ontologies 

• Relation extraction from legal documents 

• Explainability / Justifiability in legal retrieval 

• High-recall settings in legal document retrieval 

• Legal document formats and organization 

• FAIR publication of legal documents

• Hybrid systems of formal approaches and machine learning or deep learning for legal retrieval 

• Generative artificial intelligence in legal information extraction / retrieval 

Well-motivated submissions related to (but not directly fitting) one of the main themes or core topics are also welcome. 

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

Note: As short papers, we accept different kinds of submissions that can stimulate discussions in the panel. We invite submissions with preliminary findings, industrial and demo papers, position papers, as well as discussions on emerging topics.

The authors are encouraged to follow relevant best practices to ensure reproducibility of their research including the publication of code, data, experimental experimental workflows and any relevant supplementary material in public repositories (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub or Zenodo), whenever legally possible.

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: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip;

• You can alternatively use the Overleaf template: 

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lirai24

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. LIRAI aims to publish proceedings through CEUR-WS.org, but the final decision rests with the publisher. 

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and present at the workshop. Acknowledging the varying circumstances of our global community, we introduced the option to present online. There is a discounted online-only participant registration fee (early/standard/late: 70/90/100 EUR), check the main conference website once they publish the registration information.