ICAIL 2015 Full Schedule
(Version of June 4)
All events unless otherwise noted will take place at the University of San Diego Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice.
Monday, June 8
Registration desk open 08:30 – 19:00 (Rotunda)
Boxed lunches will be served at the Garden of the Sea (Back Lawn)
Tutorial T1 (Room C)
Chairs: Kevin Ashley and Matthias Grabmair
09:00 – 12:30 (approx. finish)
Tutorial T2 (Room C)
Learning and Population of Legal Ontologies
Chair: Rosario Girardi
14:00 – 16:15 (approx. finish)
Workshop W1 (Room D)
Sixth Discovery of Electronically Stored Information Workshop (DESI VI): Using Machine Learning and Other Advanced Techniques to Solve Legal Problems in E- Discovery and Information Governance
Chairs: Jason Baron, Jack Conrad, Amanda Jones, David Lewis, Douglas Oard
09:00 – 17:00
Workshop W2 (Room E)
Multilingual Workshop on AI & Law Research
Chairs: Fernando Galindo, Erich Schweighofer and Cesar Serbena
09:00 – 18:00
Doctoral Consortium (Room F)
Chairs: Guido Governatori and Monica Palmirani
14:00 – 18:00
Welcome Reception (Garden of the Sea: Back Lawn)
18:00 – 20:00
Registration desk closes 19:00
Tuesday, June 9
Registration desk open 08:00 – 17:30 (Rotunda)
All plenary sessions will be held in the IPJ Theater
Lunch will be served in Rooms A-C
9:00 – 9:10. Opening remarks: Ted Sichelman and Katie Atkinson
9:10 – 9:20. Tribute to Carole D. Hafner: Edwina Rissland and L. Thorne McCarty
9:20 – 10:40. Paper session: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Evaluation
Session chair: Doug Oard
9:20 – 9:50. Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley, Ran Chen, Preethi Sureshkumar; Chen Wang, Eric Nyberg and Vern R. Walker: Introducing LUIMA: An Experiment in Legal Conceptual Retrieval of Vaccine Injury Decisions using a UIMA Type System and Tools
9:50 – 10:20. Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Scott Sanner and Gabriela Ferraro: A Study of Query Reformulation Methods for Patent Prior Art Search with Partial Patent Applications
10:20 – 10:40. Jack G. Conrad and John Zeleznikow: The Role of Evaluation in AI and Law: An Examination of its Diverse Forms in the AI and Law Journal
10:40 – 11:10. Coffee break
11:10 – 12:50. Paper session: Machine Learning
Session chair: Karl Branting
11:10 – 11:40. Erik Hemberg, Jacob Rosen, Geoff Warner, Sanith Wijesinghe and Una-May O’Reilly: Tax Non-Compliance Detection Using Co-Evolution of Tax Evasion Risk and Audit Likelihood
11:40 – 12:10. Michael Curtotti, Eric McCreath, Tom Bruce, Sara Frug, Wayne Weibel and Nicolas Ceynowa: Machine Learning for Readability of Legislative Sentences
12:10 – 12:30. Guido Boella, Luigi Di Caro, Michele Graziadei, Loredana Cupi, Carlo Emilio Salaroglio, Llio Humphreys, Hristo Konstantinov, Kornel Marko, Livio Robaldo, Claudio Ruffini, Kiril Simov, Andrea Violato and Veli Stroetmann: Linking Legal Open Data: Breaking the Accessibility and Language Barrier in European Legislation and Case Law
12:30 – 12:50. Jaromir Savelka and Kevin D. Ashley: Transfer of Predictive Models for Classification of Statutory Texts in Multi-jurisdictional Settings
12.50 – 14.15. Lunch (Rooms A-C)
4:15 – 15:15. Keynote talk: Michael Luck, King’s College London, Contract-based Systems and Norm Emergence
15:15 – 15:45. Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15. Paper session: E-Discovery and Big Data
Session chair: David Lewis
15:45 – 16:15. Jyothi Vinjumur: Evaluating Expertise and Sample Bias Effects for Privilege Classification in E-Discovery
16:15 – 16:35. John O. McGinnis and Branden Stein: Originalism, Hypothesis Testing, and Big Data
16:35 – 16:55. Daniel M. Chada, Felipe A. Silva and Patricia Borges: Visualizing Brazilian Justice: The Supreme Court 2.0 Project
16:55 – 17:15. Alana Michelle Maurushat, Lyria Bennet-Moses and David Vaile: Using ‘Big’ Metadata for Criminal Intelligence: Understanding Limitations and Appropriate Safeguards
17:15 – 17:45: Doctoral consortium contributions
17:45: Close
Wednesday, June 10
Registration desk open 08:30 – 17:30
All plenary sessions will be held in the IPJ Theater
Lunch will be served in Rooms A-C
9:15 – 10:55. Paper session: Argumentation
Session chair: Kevin Ashley
9:15 – 9:45. Bin Wei and JinHua Huang: Modelling dialogues in court using a gradual argumentation model: a case study
9:45 – 10:05. Latifa Al-Abdulkarim, Katie Atkinson and Trevor Bench-Capon: Evaluating an Approach to Reasoning with Cases Using Abstract Dialectical Frameworks
10:05 – 10:35. Trevor Bench-Capon, Latifa Al-Abdulkarim and Katie Atkinson: Factors, Issues and Values: Revisiting Reasoning with Cases
10:35 – 10:55. Joonsuk Park, Cheryl Blake and Claire Cardie: Automated Feedback for Constructing Evaluable Arguments in eRulemaking
10:55 – 11.30. Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30. Keynote talk: Jack G. Conrad (IAAIL President), Thomson Reuters, Artificial Intelligence and Law through the Lens of IAAIL: Past, Present and Future
12.30 – 13.15. Lunch (Rooms A-C)
13:15 – 14:15. IAAIL membership meeting (IPJ Theater)
14:15 – 15:45. Paper session: Reasoning with Evidence I
Session chair: Jeroen Keppens
14:15 – 14:45. Joris Hulstijn, Rob Christiaanse and Paul Griffioen: Reliability of Electronic Evidence: an application for model-based auditing
14:45 – 15:15. Floris Bex: An Integrated Theory of Causal Stories and Evidential Arguments
15:15 – 15:45. Sjoerd T. Timmer, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij: A Structure-guided Approach to Capturing Bayesian Reasoning about Legal Evidence in Argumentation
15:45 – 16:15. Coffee break
16:15 – 16:55. Paper session: Intelligent Support Systems
Session chair: Anna Ronkainen
16:15 – 16:35. Tom van Engers and Robert van Doesburg: At Your Service, On the Definition of Services from Sources of Law
16:35 – 16:55. Michal Araszkiewicz, Agata Łopatkiewicz, Adam Zienkiewicz and Tomasz Zurek: Representation of an Actual Divorce Dispute in the Parenting Plan Support System
16:55 – 17.30. Demonstration session (Room D)
- Daniel M. Chada, Felipe A. Silva and Patricia Borges: Visualizing Brazilian Justice: The Supreme Court 2.0 Project
- Anna Ronkainen: AI Analysis of Trademark Law: TrademarkNow NameCheck and NameWatch
- Jana Sukkarieh: Writing and Reviewing Contracts: don’t you wish to save time, effort, and money?
- Sjoerd T. Timmer, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij: Demonstration of a Structure-guided Approach to Capturing Bayesian Reasoning about Legal Evidence in Argumentation
17:30. Close
17:45. Conference Dinner (La Gran Terraza: About a 10 min. walk due east of the Conference Center; see here for Map)
Commencing with a reception, followed by dinner and an awards ceremony for the best paper prizes
After-dinner speaker: Jerry Kaplan, Stanford University, Officer, Arrest that Robot!
Thursday, June 11
Registration desk open 09:00 – 17:00 (Rotunda)
All plenary sessions will be held in the IPJ Theater
Lunch will be served in Rooms A-C
9:30 – 10:30. Paper session: Reasoning with Evidence II
Session chair: Marcello Di Bello
9:30 – 10:00. Hana Chockler, Norman Fenton, Jeroen Keppens and David A. Lagnado: Causal Analysis for Attributing Responsibility in Legal Cases
10:00 – 10:30. Charlotte S. Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij: Constructing and Understanding Bayesian Networks for Legal Evidence with Scenario Schemes
10:30 – 11:10. Paper session: Analysing Legal Texts
10:30 – 10:50. Tommaso Agnoloni and Ugo Pagallo: The Case Law of the Italian Constitutional Court, its Power Laws, and the Web of Scholarly Opinions
10:50 – 11:10. Réka Markovich, Syi and Gábor Hamp: Elliptical Lists in Legislative Texts
11.10 – 11.45. Coffee break
11.45 – 12.45. Keynote talk: Jan Becker, Robert Bosch LLC, Toward Fully Automated Driving
12.45 – 14.00. Lunch
14:00 – 15:10. Paper session: Legal Knowledge Representation
Session chair: Michal Araszkiewicz
14:00 – 14:30. L. Thorne McCarty: How to Ground A Language for Legal Discourse In a Prototypical Perceptual Semantics
14:30 – 14:50. Mohammad Badiul Islam and Guido Governatori: RuleOMS: A Rule-Based Online Management System
14:50 – 15:10. Shashishekar Ramakrishna, Łukasz Górski and Adrian Paschke: Legal Vocabulary and its Transformation Evaluation using Competency Questions
15:10 – 15:45. Coffee break
15:45 – 17:05. Paper session: Deontic Logic and Knowledge Representation
Session chair: Henry Prakken
15:45 – 16:15. Guido Governatori: Thou Shalt is not You Will
16:15 – 16:45. Antonino Rotolo, Guido Governatori and Giovanni Sartor: Deontic Defeasible Reasoning in Legal Interpretation: Two Options for Modelling Interpretive Arguments
16:45 – 17:05. Michal Araszkiewicz: Incorporation of Complex Doctrinal Theories in a Model of Statutory Interpretation: An Example of Adequate Causal Link
17:05 – 17.15: Closing remarks: Katie Atkinson and Ted Sichelman
Friday, June 12
Registration desk open 08:00 – 16:00 (Rotunda)
Boxed lunches will be served at the Garden of the Sea (Back Lawn)
Workshop W3 (Room B)
Law and Big Data: Empirical and Data-Centric Techniques for Legal, Judicial, and Administrative Systems
Chairs: Karl Branting and Radboud Winkels
08:45 – 17:00
Workshop W4 (Room C)
Workshop on Automated Detection, Extraction and Analysis of Semantic Information in Legal Texts
Chairs: Kevin Ashley, Enrico Francesconi, Matthias Grabmair, Marc Lauritsen, Vern Walker, Adam Wyner
09:00 – 17:30
Workshop W5 (Room D)
Studying Evidence in the Law: Formal, Computational and Philosophical Methods
Chairs: Marcello Di Bello and Bart Verheij
09:45 – 16:30
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Session C1 (Room A)
Software Tools, Automation, and Machine Learning for Practicing IP Law
Chair: Ted Sichelman
09:30 – 11:45
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Session C2 (Room A)
Trends in Legal Search & Software
Chair: Ted Sichelman
13:00 – 16:00