[agents] CfP: ICAIL 2019 - The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law - Montreal - June 2019

[Floris Bex]

*Call for Papers, Demonstrations, Workshops & Tutorials*

*ICAIL 2019 - The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Law*

*Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Montreal, Canada*

*June 17 to June 21, 2019*

*www.icail2019-cyberjustice.com <http://www.icail2019-cyberjustice.com/>*


For more than 30 years, the ICAIL conference has been the foremost
international conference addressing research in Artificial Intelligence and
Law. It is organized biennially under the auspices of the International
Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), and in cooperation
with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
The conference proceedings are published by ACM



ICAIL 2019 will take place in Montreal, Canada, at the Cyberjustice
Laboratory of the University of Montreal from June 17 to June 21, 2019.



We invite submissions of papers, technology demonstrations and proposals
for workshops and tutorials



As the conference approaches, more information will be published on the
conference website: www.icail2019-cyberjustice.com.



*ORGANIZATION*



Program Chair - Floris Bex (Utrecht University & Tilburg University) -
f.j.bex at uu.nl

General Chair - Karim Benyekhlef (University of Montreal) -
karim.benyekhlef at umontreal.ca

Doctoral Consortium & Mentoring Program Chair - Michał Araszkiewicz
(Jagiellonian University) - michal.araszkiewicz at uj.edu.pl

Industry Chair - Katie Atkinson (University of Liverpool) -
K.M.Atkinson at liverpool.ac.uk

Local Organizer - Karima Smouk (University of Montreal) -
karima.smouk at umontreal.ca

Secretary/Treasurer – Anne Gardner (Palo Alto, CA, USA) –
gardner at cs.stanford.edu <gardner at cs.stanfordedu>





*TOPICS*



We invite submission of original papers on Artificial Intelligence & Law,
covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications. We welcome
submissions on a wide variety of topics including, but not limited to, the
following:

·         Argument mining from legal texts

·         Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts

·         Automatic legal text classification and summarization

·         Computational methods for negotiation and contract formation

·         Computer-assisted dispute resolution

·         Machine learning and data analytics applied to the legal domain

·         Deontic logics for legal reasoning

·         e-discovery and e-disclosure

·         e-government, e-democracy and e-justice

·         Ethical and legal issues of AI technology and its applications

·         Formal and computational models of evidential reasoning

·         Formal and computational models of legal reasoning (e.g.
argumentation, case-based reasoning)

·         Intelligent legal tutoring systems

·         Intelligent support systems for law and forensics

·         Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and
systems

·         Modelling norms and norm-governed systems

·         Ontologies and legal knowledge representation

·         Open and linked data in the legal domain

·         Smart contracts and application of blockchain in the legal domain

ICAIL is keen to broaden its scope to include topics of growing importance
in artificial intelligence research. Therefore, we want to draw particular
attention to two tracks:



·         *Innovative applications in AI and Law* - presenting innovative,
realistic applications that fall within any of the core AI & Law topics.
Innovative applications papers will be subject to the same rigorous
reviewing process as standard papers, but the emphasis is less on novel
scientific contributions and more on the innovative and novel application
of techniques from AI & Law to real problems.



·         *Ethical and legal issues of AI technology and its applications* -
presenting research on legal and ethical norms for AI technology and its
applications. Papers in this track will be subject to the same rigorous
reviewing process as standard papers, but the emphasis is less on formal
frameworks and results and more on legal, philosophical and social
perspectives on AI.





*PAPER SUBMISSION*



The deadline for paper submission is **Sunday, January 20, 2019**



Papers (up to 10 pages) should present worked-out ideas on relevant topics.
Papers on machine learning or data mining should include clear results and
a discussion of those results. Papers proposing formal or computational
models should provide examples and/or simulations that show the models’
applicability to a realistic legal problem or domain. Papers on
applications should describe clearly the underlying motivations, the
techniques employed, and the current state of both implementation and
evaluation. All papers should make clear their relation to prior work.



Papers should not exceed the page limit in the approved style (
http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). All papers should be
converted to PDF prior to electronic submission. Papers that do not adhere
to these conditions will be summarily rejected.



Submissions should be uploaded in the conference support system (
https://www.conftool.net/icail2019/, to be opened shortly) by the paper
submission deadline. For each submission, it should be indicated whether it
belongs in the standard track or one of the special tracks (Innovative
Applications or Ethical and Legal Issues) using the facility provided by
the submission system.



Reviewing will be double blind. The first page of each submitted paper
should include the title of the paper and the ID number of the paper as
allocated when the paper is registered on the conference support system.
Papers submitted for review should not include names and affiliations of
the authors, nor an acknowledgements section. These aspects can be added at
the camera-ready stage. The references should include published literature
relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, though care
should be taken in the style of writing in order to preserve anonymity.





*DEMONSTRATIONS*



The deadline for demonstration submission is **Sunday, January 20, 2019**



A session will be organized for the demonstration of creative, robust, and
practical working applications and tools. Where a demonstration is not
connected to a submitted paper, a two-page extended abstract about the
system should be submitted for review, via the conference support system
and following the conference style. Accepted extended abstracts will be
published in the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are
connected to a paper in the main track, no separate statement about the
demonstration need be submitted, but the author(s) should send an email to
the Program Chair by the demo submission deadline to register their
interest in demonstrating their work at this session.





*PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS*



The deadline for the proposal of workshops and tutorials is **Sunday,
December 9, 2018**



ICAIL 2019 will include workshops and tutorials on Monday, June 17 and
Friday, June 21.  Tutorials should cover a broad topic of relevance to the
AI and Law community, and should have one or more designated
organizers/speakers. A workshop is intended for informal discussion, and
should have one or more designated organizers and a program or organizing
committee.  Proposals should contain enough information to permit
evaluation on the basis of importance, quality, and community
interest.  Proposals should be 2 to 4 pages and include at least the
following information:



·         The workshop or tutorial topic and goals, their significance, and
their appropriateness for ICAIL 2019

·         The intended audience, including the research areas from which
participants may come, the likely number of participants (with some of
their names, if known), and plans for publicizing the workshop

·         Organization of the workshop or tutorial, including the intended
format (such as invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, or other
methods for ensuring an interactive atmosphere) and the expected length
(full day or half day)

·         Organizers’ details: a description of the main organizers’
background in the proposed topic; and complete addresses including web
pages of all organizers and committee members (if applicable)



Proposals for workshops and tutorials can be sent by email to the program
chair, Floris Bex (f.j.bex at uu.nl).



*MENTORING PROGRAM FOR ICAIL 2019*



The deadline for the request of a mentor is **Sunday, Novermber 4, 2018**



IAAIL is offering a mentoring program aimed primarily for junior authors
who have not previously published an Artificial Intelligence and Law paper
at a conference or in a journal. If you would like help with your
submission, you may ask for a mentor who will help you with your submission
to the IAAIL audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail and
Skype. A mentor can also familiarize you with the standards of ICAIL
submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions.



A mentor request should contain at least the following information:

·         Your name and the names of your co-authors;

·         The name of your school (or department) and institution;

·         A plain-text description of your work (a title and abstract is a
minimum requirement);

·         Any specific questions or areas in which you would like help.



To request a mentor, please send email by the Mentoring Program Request
Deadline to the mentoring program chair, Michał Araszkiewicz (
michal.araszkiewicz at uj.edu.pl).





*DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM*



A Doctoral Consortium will be held as part of ICAIL 2019. The event will
provide doctoral students with an opportunity to publish and present papers
on their PhD research and to receive feedback and encouragement from the AI
and Law community. Students who submit papers to the main conference are
also welcome to submit their work to the Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral
Consortium Chair for ICAIL 2019 is Michał Araszkiewicz. A call for papers
specifically for the Doctoral Consortium will be forthcoming; the deadline
for the submission of Doctoral Consortium papers is expected to be April
2019.





*AWARDS*



IAAIL has established three different awards, to be presented at the
conference banquet.



**Donald H. Berman Award for Best Student Paper



The best student paper award is in memory of Donald H. Berman, a professor
of law at Northeastern University, who was a co-founder of the Artificial
Intelligence and Law journal. The award consists of a cash gift and free
attendance at ICAIL 2019. For a paper to be considered for the award, the
student author(s) should be clearly designated as such when the paper is
submitted using the facility provided by the submission system, and any
non-student co-authors should provide a statement by email to the Program
Chair that affirms that the paper is primarily student work.



**Carole Hafner Award for Best Paper



The best paper award is given in memory of Carole Hafner, an associate
professor of computer science at Northeastern University. She was one of
the founders of the ICAIL conference and a founding editor of the journal
Artificial Intelligence and Law.



**Peter Jackson Award for Best Innovative Application Paper



The best innovative application paper award is dedicated to the memory of
Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters’ Chief Research Scientist, who was a strong
supporter of the ICAIL conferences and a significant contributor to the
development of advanced technologies in AI and Law.





*IMPORTANT DATES*



·         Deadline for request to take part in mentoring program: November
4,  2018

·         Deadline for submission of workshop and tutorial proposals:
December 9, 2019

·         Deadline for submission of papers & demonstrations: January 20,
2019

·         Notification of acceptance papers & demonstrations: March 24, 2019

·         Conference: June 17-21, 2019
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