LINGUIST List 22.694 Thu Feb 10 2011 Calls: Comp Ling, Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Adam Wyner , Applying Human Language Technology to the Law Message 1: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law Date: 08-Feb-2011 From: Adam Wyner <adamwyner.info> Subject: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Applying Human Language Technology to the Law Short Title: AHLTL 2011 Date: 10-Jun-2011 - 10-Jun-2011 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Contact Person: Adam Wyner Meeting Email: adamwyner.info Web Site: http://wyner.info/LanguageLogicLawSoftware/index.php/2011/01/29/icail- workshop-applying-human-language-technology-to-the-law/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: Over the last decade there have been dramatic improvements in the effectiveness and accuracy of Human Language Technology (HLT), accompanied by a significant expansion of the HLT community itself. Over the same period, there have been widespread developments in web-based distribution and processing of legal textual information, e.g. cases, legislation, citizen information sources, etc. More recently, a growing body of research and practice has addressed a range of topics common to both the HLT and Artificial Intelligence and Law communities, including automated legal reasoning and argumentation, semantic information retrieval, cross and multi-lingual information retrieval, document classification, logical representations of legal language, dialogue systems, legal drafting, legal knowledge discovery and extraction, linguistically based legal ontologies, among others. Central to these shared topics is use of HLT techniques and tools for automating knowledge extraction from legal texts and for processing legal language. The workshop has several objectives. The first objective is to broaden the research base by introducing HLT researchers to the materials and problems of processing legal language. The second objective is to introduce AI and Law researchers to up-to-date theories, techniques, and tools from HLT, which can be applied to legal language. And the third objective is to deepen the existing research streams. Altogether, the interactions among the researchers are expected to advance research and applications and foster interdisciplinary collaboration within the legal domain. Call for Papers: The workshop will focus on extraction of information from legal text, presentations of legal language (ontologies and semantic translations), and dialogic aspects. While information extraction and retrieval are crucial areas, the workshop emphasizes syntactic, semantic, and dialogic aspects of legal information processing: - Building legal resources: terminologies, ontologies, corpora - Ontologies of legal texts, including subareas such as ontology acquisition, ontology customization, ontology merging, ontology extension, ontology evolution, lexical information, etc. - Information retrieval and extraction from legal texts - Semantic annotation of legal texts - Multilingual aspects of legal text semantic processing - Legal thesauri mapping - Automatic classification of legal documents - Automated parsing and translation of natural language arguments into a logical formalism - Linguistically-oriented XML mark up of legal arguments - Computational theories of argumentation that is suitable to natural language - Controlled language systems for law - Name matching and alias detection - Dialogue protocols and systems for legal discussion Author Guidelines: The workshop solicits full papers and position papers. Authors are welcome to submit tentative, incremental, and exploratory studies which examine HLT issues distinctive to the law and legal applications. Papers not accepted as full papers may be accepted as short research abstracts. Submissions will be evaluated by the program committee. For information on submission details (length, format, notion of position paper, etc.) see the ICAIL 2011 conference information: http://www.law.pitt.edu/icail2011/call-for-papers Submissions should be submitted electronically in PDF to the EasyChair site by the deadline (see important dates below): https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahltl2011 Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 31 March 2011 by 00:00 EST Acceptance notification sent: 15 April 2011 Final version deadline: 15 May 2011 Workshop date: 10 June 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.