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CALL FOR PAPERS
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5th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT
2012)
in conjunction with
15th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS
2012)
Vilnius, Lithuania
May 21 or 22 or 23, 2012
/bis2012/wscfp.php?ws=lit2012
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Deadline for submissions: April 13, 2012 (deadline extended)
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The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT) Workshop
is an annual event which gathers people interested in broadly understood
Legal Informatics and its applications. The LIT 2012 meeting will take
place in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of the 15th International Conference
on Business Information Systems. As a continuation of previous editions,
we invite people dealing with different domains closely related to legal
matter and Information Technology.
The 5th Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology Workshop
will be a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together
practitioners and researchers to investigate challenges and opportunities
in the emerging trends on the verge of law and IT. The workshop will
examine vital issues, including law-related business processes, legal
ontologies, description frameworks, discussing new research and
innovative applications in Law, Information Technology as well as
Insurance. The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic
in these interdisciplinary domains.
In the year 2011 all papers accepted to the workshop have been
published in Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing. We are planning to continue the cooperation with the
publisher on this edition of the event.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
* Alternative & online Dispute Resolution
* Computational models for legal reasoning
* Information extraction & categorization of legal documents
* Information Technology & Crime Prevention
* Information Technology & Dispute Resolution
* Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law
* Knowledge management in the legal domain
* Law & Future Internet technologies
* Legal argumentation
* Legal aspects of BIS
* Legal aspects of IT
* Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning
* Legal electronic agents
* Legal Expert Systems
* Legal ontologies - creation, use & lifecycles
* Legal reasoning and its computer representation
* Natural language processing in law
* Question answering retrieval for law and governmental services
* Risk management & trust in law
* Semantic indexing of legal documents
* Semantic Web technologies in law and e-government
* Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law
* Specific legal domains appliances (systems in civil, tax, commercial,
insurance law)
* Text mining and knowledge extraction in law
* Validation of legal knowledge
SUBMISSION
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
* Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP
template available from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0.
The authors should include a 100-word abstract at the beginning of the
paper, which clearly presents the achievement or contribution of the
paper. Furthermore 4-7 keywords should describe the content of the
submission.
Submission system is available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lit2012.
Papers approved for presentation at LIT 2012 will be published in BIS
2012 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. The
volume will be edited by Witold Abramowicz. BIS 2012 Workshops
proceedings will be distributed to BIS 2012 participants in October 2012
by regular mail.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be
asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will
be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS
conference and other BIS workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
* April 13, 2012 (deadline
extended) - submission deadline for papers
* April 22, 2012 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 7, 2012 - submission of final papers
* May 21 or 22 or 23, 2012 - the workshop
ORGANIZERS
* Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems
(http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/)
CHAIRS
* Erich Schweighofer
* Piotr Stolarski
* John Zeleznikow
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Zsolt György Balogh, University of Pécs, Hungary
* Emilia Bellucci, Victoria University, Australia
* Daniele Bourcier, CNRS-CERSA Paris, France
* Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Presidente da Diretoria Executiva
IJURIS, Brasil
* Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law, Netherlands
* Friedrich Lachmayer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw, Poland
* Marta Poblet, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
* Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
* Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
* Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Australia
* John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
* Tomasz Żurek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland
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