Workshop Program

Program

*All times are in PST (+3 EST, +8 UK, +9 CET)

08:00 - 08:10 Workshop opening [slides]

08:10 - 09:00 Invited Talk: AI for language, democracy and fundamental rights - Paul Nemitz

09:00 - 10:00 Session 1: Legal Text Analysis

09:00 - 09:15 Return of the AI: An Analysis of Legal Research on Artificial Intelligence Using Topic Modeling - Constanta Rosca, Bogdan Covrig, Catalina Goanta, Gijs van Dijck, Gerasimos Spanakis [paper] [video] (#1)

09:15 - 09:30 Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law - Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung [non-archival paper] (#2)

09:30 - 09:45 Performance in the Courtroom: Automated Processing and Visualization of Appeal Court Decisions in France - Paul Boniol, George Panagopoulos, Christos Xypolopoulos, Rajaa El Hamdani, David Restrepo Amariles, Michalis Vazirgiannis [paper] [video] (#3)

09:45 - 10:00 Pardon the Interruption: An Analysis of Gender and Turn-Taking in U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments - Haley Lepp, Gina-Anne Levow [non-archival paper - to be published in INTERSPEECH 2020] [data] [video] (#4)

10:00 - 11:00 Session 2: NLP Applications

10:00 - 10:15 Toward Domain-Guided Controllable Summarization of Privacy Policies - Moniba Keymanesh, Micha Elsner, Srinivasan Parthasarathy [paper] [video] (#5)

10:15 - 10:30 Entropy in Legal Language - Roland Friedrich, Mauro Luzzatto, Elliott Ash [paper] [video] (#6)

10:30 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 10:50 Finding Contextually Consistent Information Units in Legal Text - Dominic Seyler, Paul Bruin, Pavan Bayyapu, ChengXiang Zhai [paper] [video] (#7)

10:50 - 11:00 The Gap between Deep Learning and Law: Predicting Employment Notice - Jason T. Lam, David Liang, Samuel Dahan, Farhana Zulkernine [paper] [video] (#8)

11:00 - 11:30 Session 3: Data Sets

11:00 - 11:15 A Dataset for Statutory Reasoning in Tax Law Entailment and Question Answering - Nils Holzenberger, Andrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme [paper] [video] (#9)

11:15 - 11:30 MWCC: A Corpus of Malawi Criminal Cases - Amelia V. Taylor [paper] [video] (#10)

11:30 - 11:40 Break

11:40 - 12:00 Session 4: System Demos

11:40 - 11:50 Quick Check: A Legal Research Recommendation System - Merine Thomas, Thomas Vacek, Xin Shuai, Wenhui Liao, George Sanchez, Paras Sethia, Don Teo, Kanika Madan, Tonya Custis [paper] [video] (#11)

11:50 - 12:00 Explaining Potentially Unfair Clauses to the Consumer with the CLAUDETTE tool - Rūta Liepina, Federico Ruggeri, Francesca Lagioia, Marco Lippi, Kasper Drazewski, Paolo Torroni [paper] [video] (#12)

12:00 - 13:00 Virtual Town Hall (BYOB)