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From: Pepijn Visser <pepijn@csc.liv.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Workshop on Legal Ontologies
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This is a call for papers,
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CALL FOR PAPERS         
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    FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEGAL ONTOLOGIES


    4 July 1997

    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  ---  Organised in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW, 30 June 1997 - 3 July 1997,
University of
Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia  ---

    
Research in Artificial Intelligence and Law necessarily involves
conceptualising the legal domain in terms of its primitive entities
and
relations. This process addresses questions such as, do we distinguish
norms, do we distinguish actors, and is it necessary to separate male
and
female individuals? After the primitive entities and relations are
chosen,
one can express legal knowledge (such as case descriptions, and legal
rules)
and model how legal reasoning is conducted. Usually the
conceptualisations
of the legal domain are not made explicit. Rather than describing the
building blocks of the legal domain, emphasis is put on the
description of
the more complex entities such as rules and case descriptions.

Recently, in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law the creation
of
LEGAL ONTOLOGIES - in which the domain primitives are documented
explicitly
- is recognised as a research effort in its own right. It is
interesting to
see that there are substantial differences in the way researchers
model the
legal domain for similar purposes.


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WORKSHOP AIMS
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The workshop on legal ontologies is aimed at bringing together
researchers
interested in legal ontologies. We hope to be able to compare
different
legal ontologies to get a better understanding of the reasons why
different
researchers conceptualise their domain differently than others. Also,
we
would like to investigate the relation between legal tasks and
ontologies.
We welcome papers addressing one or more of the following topics (or
any
other topic related to legal ontologies):

   - the construction of legal ontologies
   - reusability of legal ontologies
   - formal descriptions of legal theory
   - comparison of legal ontologies
   - descriptions of legal task / domain ontologies
   - the relation of legal ontologies and legal tasks
   - description languages for legal ontologies
   - creating LKBS from ontologies (and vice versa) 


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IMPORTANT DATES
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  Deadline for submissions:  15 April 1997
  Notification of acceptance:  15 May 1997
  Deadline for camera-ready version:  7 June 1997   
  Workshop:  4 July 1997
 

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ORGANISATION and SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Papers (written in English) should not exceed 10 pages or 5000 words
(exclusive of appendices listing complete ontologies). Please submit
your
paper by sending 4 hard copies to one of the organisers listed below.
Alternatively, you can submit your paper by sending us an E-mail
containing
a postscript version of your paper. An acknowledgement of your
submission
will be sent to the first author.

   Dr. Pepijn R.S. Visser
   Department of Computer Science 
   University of Liverpool,  PO Box 147
   Liverpool  L69 7ZF,  United Kingdom
   pepijn@csc.liv.ac.uk
 
   Dr. Radboud Winkels
   Department of Computer Science & Law  
   University of Amsterdam,  PO Box 1030
   1000 BA  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   winkels@lri.jur.uva.nl

More information on the workshop can be obtained by the organisers or
at:
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~pepijn/legont.html


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Dr. Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool, UK)
Prof. dr. Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Dr. Thomas F. Gordon (GMD, Germany)
Dr. Robert W. van Kralingen (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Prof. L. Thorne McCarty (Rutgers University, USA)
Dr. Andre Valente (Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Dr. Pepijn R.S. Visser (University of Liverpool, UK)
Dr. Radboud Winkels (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)





