Thursday, February 19, 2009

Call for Papers: Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology

Call for Papers: Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology
Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, Poznan, Poland, April 28, 2009.

Submission details: at http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=lit2009
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Submission deadline: Feb. 22, 2009

Here is a description: The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology workshop held as part of the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems. The BIS Conference is held annually and is a leading world conference in the area of Business Information Systems. Submissions are rigorously refereed. Accepted papers are published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series. After a long hiatus, the domain of Law and Information Technology is finally receiving much attention, not only from researchers, but also from practitioners. Hence there is a need for forums that discuss new research and innovative applications in Law and Information Technology.

Call for papers: The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in the interdisciplinary domain of Law and Information Technology.

Topics

Automated semantic indexing, information extraction and categorization of legal documents
Computational models for legal reasoning
Information Technology and Dispute Resolution
Information Technology and Crime Prevention
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Law
Knowledge management in the legal domain
Legal argumentation
Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning
Legal electronic agents
Legal Expert Systems
Legal ontologies and their creation and use
Legal reasoning and its computer representation
Natural language processing in law
Online Dispute Resolution
Question answering retrieval in law and governmental services
Risk management in law
Semantic Web technologies for law and e-government
Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law
Text mining and knowledge extraction in law