Andrea Tagarelli is an associate professor of computer engineering at the DIMES Dept., University of Calabria, Italy. He earned his Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering in 2006, focusing on information and knowledge extraction from text data. With interests spanning data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence, he has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics.

He has held leadership roles in conferences, serves as associate editor for premier journals in the fields of knowledge and data engineering, social media, and network science, and is a member of professional organizations like ACM. He is also a cofounder of three startups in the ICT context, including JurisAI s.r.l., which builds its mission on the opportunity of improving relations between the legal domain, the financial and banking services domain, and the area of new information technologies. More on his research and professional activities can be found at https://mlnteam-unical.github.io/.

The keynote will explore the role that LLMs and generative AI can have as legal advisory for assisting legal professionals to solve tasks such as search and retrieval, question answering, entailment and reasoning, summarization.

It will shed light on the ethical considerations and best practices associated with the integration of AI in the legal domain, e.g., for the development of conversational agents customized on a particular legal domain, paving the way for a symbiotic relationship between human expertise and AI assistance.