MCCARTY@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (01/08/87)
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
First International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW
May 27-29, 1987
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
In recent years there has been an increased interest in the applications of
artificial intelligence to law. Some of this interest is due to the potential
practical applications: A number of researchers are developing legal expert
systems, intended as an aid to lawyers and judges; other researchers are
developing conceptual legal retrieval systems, intended as a complement to the
existing full-text legal retrieval systems. But the problems in this field are
very difficult. The natural language of the law is exceedingly complex, and it
is grounded in the fundamental patterns of human common sense reasoning. Thus,
many researchers have also adopted the law as an ideal problem domain in which
to tackle some of the basic theoretical issues in AI: the representation of
common sense concepts; the process of reasoning with concrete examples; the
construction and use of analogies; etc. There is reason to believe that a
thorough interdisciplinary approach to these problems will have significance
for both fields, with both practical and theoretical benefits.
The purpose of this First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Law is to stimulate further collaboration between AI researchers and
lawyers, and to provide a forum for the latest research results in the field.
The conference is sponsored by the Center for Law and Computer Science at
Northeastern University. The General Chair is: Carole D. Hafner, College of
Computer Science, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA
02115, USA; (617) 437-5116 or (617) 437-2462; hafner.northeastern@csnet-relay.
Authors are invited to contribute papers on the following topics:
- Legal Expert Systems
- Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems
- Automatic Processing of Natural Legal Texts
- Computational Models of Legal Reasoning
In addition, papers on the relevant theoretical issues in AI are also invited,
if the relationship to the law can be clearly demonstrated. It is important
that authors identify the original contributions presented in their papers, and
that they include a comparison with previous work. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee (listed below), and
judged as to its originality, quality and significance.
Authors should submit six (6) copies of an Extended Abstract (6 to 8 pages) by
January 15, 1987, to the Program Chair: L. Thorne McCarty, Department of
Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 08903, USA; (201)
932-2657; mccarty@rutgers.arpa. Notification of acceptance or rejection will
be sent out by March 1, 1987. Final camera-ready copy of the complete paper
(up to 15 pages) will be due by April 15, 1987.
Conference Chair: Carole D. Hafner Northeastern University
Program Chair: L. Thorne McCarty Rutgers University
Program Committee: Donald H. Berman Northeastern University
Michael G. Dyer UCLA
Edwina L. Rissland University of Massachusetts
Marek J. Sergot Imperial College, London
Donald A. Waterman The RAND Corporationhafner@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (03/14/87)
The First
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
May 27-29, 1987
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsored by: The Center for Law and Computer Science
Northeastern University
In Co-operation with ACM SIGART
Schedule of Activities:
Wednesday, May 27
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Tutorials
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Research Presentations (see list below)
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Welcoming Reception - NU Faculty Center
Thursday and Friday, May 28-29
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Research Presentations (continued)
Thursday evening, May 28 - 7:00 p.m. - Gala Banquet at the Colonnade Hotel
Tutorials:
A. "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (For Lawyers)." Edwina L.
Rissland,
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, will
present the fundamentals of AI from the perspective of a legal expert.
B. "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opportunities and Challenges."
Donald H. Berman, Richardson Professor of Law, and Carole D. Hafner,
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University, will
survey the past accomplishments and current goals of research in AI and Law.
Panels:
"The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Legal System."
Moderated by Cary
G. deBessonet, Director of the Law and Artificial Intelligence Project,
Louisiana State Law Institute.
"Modeling the Legal Reasoning Process: Formal and Computational Approaches."
Moderated by L. Thorne McCarty, Professor of Computer Science and Law, Rutgers
University.
List of Research Presentations: (final schedule is not yet determined)
"Expert Systems in Law: The Datalex Project"
Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray, Alan L. Tyree
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
"The Application of Expert Systems Technology to Case-Based Law"
J.C. Smith, Cal Deedman
Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, CANADA
"Legal Reasoning in 3-D"
Marvin Belzer
Advanced Computational Methods Center
University of Georgia, USA
"Explanation for an Expert System that Performs Estate Planning"
Dean A. Schlobohm, Donald A. Waterman
Moraga, California, USA
"Expert Systems in Law: Out of the Research Laboratory and into the
Marketplace"
Richard E. Susskind
Ernst & Whinney
London, ENGLAND
"An Expert System for Screening Employee Pension Plans for the
Internal Revenue Service"
Gary Grady, Ramesh S. Patil
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. USA
"Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System"
Richard M. Tong, Clifford A. Reid, Peter R. Douglas, Gregory J. Crowe
Advanced Decision Systems
Mountain View, California USA
"Conceptual Retrieval and Case Law"
Judith P. Dick
Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
"A Process Specification of Expert Lawyer Reasoning"
D. Peter O'Neill
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
"Conceptual Organization of Case Law Knowledge Bases"
Carole D. Hafner
The Center for Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts USA
"A Case-Based System for Trade Secrets Law"
Edwina L. Rissland Kevin D. Ashley
Department of Computer and Information Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts USA
"But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO"
Kevin D. Ashley, Edwina L. Rissland
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts USA
"A Connectionist Approach to Conceptual Information Retrieval"
Richard K. Belew
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Univ. of California
San Diego, California USA
"System = Program + Programmers + Law"
Naftaly H. Minsky, David Rozenshtein
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey USA
"A Natural Language Based Legal Expert System Project for Consultation
and Tutoring -- The LEX Project"
F. Haft, R.P. Jones, Th. Wetter
IBM Heidelberg Scientific Centre
Heidelberg, WEST GERMANY
"Handling of Significant Deviations from Boilerplate Text in the SPADES
System"
Gary Morris, Keith Taylor, Maury Harwood
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. USA
"Legal Data Modeling: The Prohibited Transaction Exemption Analyst"
Keith Bellairs
Management Science Department, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
"Reasoning about `Hard' Cases in Talmudic Law
Steven Weiner
Somerville, Massachusetts USA
"Designing Text Retrieval Systems for `Conceptual Searching'"
Jon Bing
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law
Oslo, NORWAY
"Support for Policy Makers: Formulating Legislation with the Aid of
Logical Models"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London, ENGLAND
"Further Comments on McCarty's Semantics for Deontic Logic"
Andrew J.I. Jones
University of Oslo
Oslo, NORWAY
"Experiments Using Expert Systems Technology for Teaching Law: Special
Knowledge Representation Approaches in DEFAULT and EVAN"
Roger D. Purdy
School of Law, The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio USA
"OBLOG-2: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System for Defeasible Reasoning"
Thomas F. Gordon
FS-INFRE, GMD
Sankt Augustin, WEST GERMANY
"ESPLEX: A Rule and Conceptual Model for Representing Statutes"
Carlo Biogioli, Paola Mariana, Daniela Tiscornia
Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica
Florence, ITALY
"A PROLOG Model of the Income Tax Act of Canada"
David M. Sherman
Maintnix Services
Thornhill, Ontario CANADA
"Some Problems in Designing Expert Systems to Aid Legal Reasoning"
Layman E. Allen, Charles S. Saxon
Law School, The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
"Precedent-Based Legal Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition in Contract Law:
A Process Model"
Seth R. Goldman, Michael G. Dyer, Margot Flowers
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California USA
"Logic Programming for Large Scale Applications in Law: A Formalism of
Supplementary Benefit Legislation"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. Routen, M.J. Sergot
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London, ENGLAND
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Program Committee Conference Information
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L.Thorne McCarty, Chair Prof. Carole D. Hafner, Conference Chair
Donald H. Berman (617) 437-5116
Michael G. Dyer Ms. Rita Laffey, Registration
Anne v.d. L. Gardner (617) 437-3346
Edwina L. Rissland
Marek J. Sergot
Housing Information
Special Conference Rates are available at the following hotels:
(Mention "Northeastern University Computers and Law Conference")
1. The Colonnade Hotel - $75 single/$95 double + tax ($8 parking)
120 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA (617) 424-7000
2. The Midtown Hotel - $58 single/$63 double + tax (includes free parking)
220 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA (617) 262-1000 or 1-800-343-1177
Both of these hotels are less than a 10-minute walk from the Conference.
Rooms have also been arranged at Boston University dormitories, a
20-minute walk from the conference, or a 10-minute bus ride and a 5-minute
walk. The rates are $29 single/$24 (per person) double. To reserve a
room in the dormitory, use the attached registration form.
SPACE IS LIMITED - RESERVE EARLY!!
Conference Registration Fee (does not include tutorial or banquet)
Regular Full-time Student
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Received by April 20 $95 $55
Received after April 20 $135 $85
Gala Banquest - May 28 ($40/person)
Tutorial Fee: ($50 with conference registration $100 otherwise)
Dormitory Fee ($29/night single, $24/night double)