Apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times. -------------------------------------------- !!Deadline Extention!! Due to many requests, we will extend the deadline for Eighth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2014). New Submission Deadline: September 17, 2014

Conference date: November 23 - 24, 2014 venue: Raiosha Building, Keio University Kanagawa, Japan

Aims and Scope

Juris-informatics is a new research area which studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.

Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Model of legal reasoning Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent Legal term ontology Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base Translation of legal documents Information retrieval of legal texts Computer-aided law education Use of Informatics and AI in law Legal issues on ubiquitous computing / multi-agent system / the Internet Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law Natural language processing for legal knowledge Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain

Bar Exam Competition

This year, JURISIN invites participation in a legal information extraction and entailment competition. Previous conferences/workshops have not conducted such a shared task on a large legal data collection, so we hope that the 2014 workshop will help establish a major experimental effort in the legal information extraction/retrieval field. The motivation for the competition is to help create a research community of practice for the capture and use of legal information. Please visit the homepage of the bar exam competition. http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~miyoung2/jurisin_task/index.html

Invited Speakers

Bart Verheij (Stanford University/ University of Groningen) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Submissions: the submission site via EasyChair is now open.

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere except as a submission to JURIX 2014 (The 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems). The double submission policy with JURIX 2014 is as follows:

Papers being submitted both to JURISIN2014 and JURIX2014 must note this on the title page. A paper to be presented at JURISIN2014 must be withdrawn from JURIX2014 and vice versa according to the choice by the authors. If the authors do not follow this double submission policy, the paper by the authors will not be included in the proceedings of JURISIN 2014.

Post Proceedings: Selected papers will be published via Springer Verlag LNAI. In addition, the authors have an opportunity to submit their full versions to the special issue of Journal of New Generation Computing. The detail will be announced soon.

Workshop Chair

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Organizing Committee Members

Katsumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan Katsuhiko Sano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Advisory Committee Members

Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK Tomas Gordon, Fraunfoher FOKUS, Germany Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & Groningen, The Netherlands John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Program Committee Members

Satoshi Tojo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan Tokuyasu Kakuta, Nagoya University, Japan Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI), Korea Minghui Xiong, Sun Yat-sen University, China Minghui Ma, Southwest University, China Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan Makoto Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, UK Katsuhiko Sano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan Katumi Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK Philip T H Chung, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), Australia Masahiro Kozuka, Okayama University, Japan Fumihiko Takahashi, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Baosheng Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law, China Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST), Japan

Home page of JURISIN 2014 http://www.jaist.ac.jp/org/jurisin2014/ ------------------------------------------------------ Satoshi Tojo Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)