The JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of JURIX: The Foundation for Legal Knowledge Based Systems (http://www.jurix.nl). JURIX is a forum for research on information technology as applied to the law, and in particular on the development and application of artificial intelligence in the legal domain. Since 1988, JURIX has organized annual international conferences on current research in the field.
The 19th International JURIX conference will be held in Paris (France) from 7-9th December 2006.
The working language of the JURIX conference is English.
Topics
Conference proposal themes will include, but are not limited to, the following topics and categories:
Computational models for legal reasoning and argumentation
Case-based legal reasoning, deontic reasoning and normative reasoning
Automated mediation, negotiation and dispute resolution
Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law
Dealing with dynamic, incomplete, contradictory or fragmented sources of legal knowledge
Semantic Web technologies and knowledge management for e-government
Legal ontology creation and knowledge extraction
Document standards and electronic publishing of legal information
Automated semantic indexing, information extraction and categorization of legal documents
Natural language processing of legal sources
Legal discourse modelling and legal reasoning
Question answering retrieval in law and governmental services
Support systems for citizens and administration in e-government
Legal electronic agents and their coordination
Automated contracting
Mobile support systems of legal services
Visualization and presentation of legal information for efficient consultation
Artificial intelligence in police and intelligence services
Impact of artificial intelligence on law, legal procedures and legal institutions
We welcome full papers and workshop/tutorial/demonstration proposals. We specifically invite contributions on AI and Law in the forensic domain.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission tutorial, workshop and demonstration proposals
August 21st 2006
Deadline for submission of papers
September 4th 2006
Notification of paper acceptance
October 6th 2006
Camera-ready paper due
October 20th 2006
JURIX 2006 Main Conference Update
December 7-8th 2006
JURIX Workshops/Tutorial (saturday) Update
December 9th 2006
Contact
You can contact us by sending an email to
Submissions
Submissions will be judged amongst other things on originality, significance, correctness, scholarship and clarity.
Submit an electronic version of your paper in Postscript or PDF via the conference electronic submission system at: http://jurix.leibnizcenter.org/ The paper is restricted to 10 pages. Source files are preferrably made with LaTeX.
Accepted workshop contributions will be published by IOS Press.
Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site
Failure to commit to present at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceeding.
Program Committee (not definite)
Tom van Engers (program chair), Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam
Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Danièle Bourcier, CNRS, CMB/CERSA, France
Paul Bourgine, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Karl Branting, BAE systems, USA
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra , Spain
Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, USA
Richard Leary, Advanced Forensic Solutions, UK
Ronald Leenes, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Jacky Legrand, University Paris 2
Arno Lodder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
