1st Call for Papers JURISIN 2022 - JURIX

1st Call for Papers: Sixteenth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2022) June 12 – 14, 2022 https://www.niit.ac.jp/jurisin2022/ Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan and/or ONLINE with a support of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in association with the 14th JSAI International Symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI 2022) * Submission Deadline: April 1, 2022 * * 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 for juris-informatics 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  We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics.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: 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 – 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 – Online dispute resolution – AI and intellectual property – Computer aided legal education – Legal data mining – Legal document analysis – Legal information retrieval – Legal information extraction – Evidential reasoning – AI application to forensics – AI application to smart contracts and blockchain – Legislation support by AI/IT techniques – Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris- informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain * Bar Exam Competition (COLIEE2022) * This year, JURISIN will co-located with the Seventh Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE-2022). 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 COLIEE2022 ( http://www.ualberta.ca/~rabelo/COLIEE2022/ ) to see the detail of the competition. * Submissions * Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from http://www.springeronline.com and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page. If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the workshop and present it. We strongly encourage an online registration. You can submit your paper at “ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurisin2022 “. If you cannot submit a paper by EasyChair System by some trouble, please send email to: mnakamur [at] niit dot ac dot jp * Invited Speakers * TBA * Post Proceedings* Selected papers will be published as a post-proceedings via Springer Verlag LNAI after the second round of review after the workshop. The selected papers of the previous workshops were published as volumes of LNAI4914(JURISIN 2007), LNAI5447(JURISIN 2008), LNAI6284(JURISIN 2009), LNAI6797(JURISIN2010), LNAI7258(JURISIN2011), LNAI7856(JURISIN2012), LNAI8417(JURISIN2013), LNAI9067(JURISIN2014), and LNAI10091 (JURISIN2015), LNAI10247(JURISIN2016), LNAI10838(JURISIN2017), and LNAI11717(JURISIN2018), LNAI12331(JURISIN2019), LNAI12758(JURISIN2020), and LNAIXXXXX(JURISIN2021). * Important Dates * Submission Deadline: April 1, 2022 Notification: May 1, 2022 Camera Ready Copy due: May 15, 2022 JURISIN 2022: June 12-14, 2022 * Workshop Chair * Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan * Steering Committee Members * Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Takehiko Kasahara, Toin University of Yokohama, Japan Nguyen Le Minh, JAIST, Japan Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan Yoshiaki Nishigai, Chiba University, Japan Katsumi Nitta, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya University, Japan Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University, Japan Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan * Advisory Committee Members * Trevor Bench-Capon, The University of Liverpool, UK 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 * Programme Committee Members (TBA) * * Home page of JURISIN 2022 * https://www.niit.ac.jp/jurisin2022/