[ecoop-info] CfP - 4th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2011)

[Piotr Stolarski]

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT
                                   2011)

                              in conjunction with
      14th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS
                                   2011)


                              Poznań, Poland
               June 15-17, 2011 (exact date to be confirmed)

         http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/14th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=lit2011

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          Deadline for submissions: April 21 (11:59pm CET), 2011

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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 2011 meeting
will take place in Poznan as part of the 14th 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 4th 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 2010 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

* Information extraction & categorization of legal documents
* Computational models for legal reasoning
* Information Technology & Dispute Resolution
* Information Technology & Crime Prevention
* Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law
* Knowledge management in the legal domain
* Legal argumentation
* 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
* Alternative & online Dispute Resolution
* Question answering retrieval for law and governmental services
* Risk management & trust in law
* Semantic Web technologies in law and e-government
* Semantic indexing of legal documents
* Specific legal domains appliances (systems in civil, tax, commercial,
   insurance law)
* Specialized knowledge representation and logics for 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/series/7911.

     Submission system is available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lit2011.

     Papers approved for presentation at LIT 2011 will be published in
BIS 2011 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 2011 Workshops
proceedings will be distributed to BIS 2011 participants in October 2011
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 21 (11:59pm CET), 2011 - submission deadline for papers
* May 20, 2011 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* June 1, 2011 - submission of final papers
* June 15-17, 2011 (exact date to be confirmed) - the workshop
The workshop is a one day event.

ORGANIZERS

* Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems
   (http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/)

CHAIRS

* Erich Schweighofer
* Piotr Stolarski
* John Zeleznikow

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)

* Emilia Bellucci, Victoria University, Australia
* Daniele Bourcier, CNRS-CERSA, Germany
* Handschke Jerzy, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Presidente da Diretoria Executiva
   IJURIS, Brasil
* Arno Lodder, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw, Poland
* Marta Poblet, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
* Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria, Austria
* Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Australia
* John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia

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