Program

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WEDNESDAY, December 9th, 2020

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THURSDAY, December 10th, 2020

WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 9:30 CET AND 10:15 CET!

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09:30 — 09:45

Opening by Serena Villata and Jakub Harašta

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09:45 — 10:10

Demo Session (Chair: Jakub Harašta)

Masha Medvedeva, Xiao Xu, Martijn Wieling and Michel Vols

JURI SAYS: an Automatic Judgement Prediction System for the European Court of Human Rights

Ken Satoh, Matteo Baldoni and Laura Giordano

Reasoning about Applicable Law in Private International Law in Logic Programming

Mirna El Ghosh and Habib Abdulrab

Ontology-Based Liability Decision Support in the International Maritime Law

Roberta Calegari, Giuseppe Contissa, Giuseppe Pisano, Galileo Sartor and Giovanni Sartor

Arg-tuProlog: a modular logic argumentation tool for private international law

Ioannis Chrysakis, Giorgos Flouris, George Ioannidis, Maria Makridaki, Theodore Patkos, Yannis Roussakis, Georgios Samaritakis, Alexandru Stan, Nikoleta Tsabanaki, Elias Tzortzakakis and Elisjana Ymeralli

CAP-A: a Suite of Tools for Data Privacy Evaluation of Mobile Applications

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 10:15 and 11:15

10:15 — 11:15

Invited talk by Katie Atkinson (Chair: Serena Villata)

Explainability for AI and Law in the Wild

Explainability has recently come to the fore of concerns about deployment of AI in real world domains. The recent advances seen in data-driven techniques have brought AI research into mainstream applications, yet specific domains have different user needs and acceptance criteria for the deployment of various AI techniques. A key concern for AI and Law applications is the ability of predictive tools to provide a suitable explanation for the conclusions they draw, as is expected from humans who currently execute tasks involving legal judgment. This talk will begin by providing a survey of some of the key issues relevant to the topic of explainability in AI and law research today. An overview will then be given of a body of work produced recently that is aimed at providing explainable decision support for legal case-based reasoning. A particular focus will be placed on the deployment of these methods on real world cases to demonstrate the accuracy of their conclusions and their explanation features, both of which are needed to ensure that trust is engendered in the AI-based tools that are being built to provide assistance to legal professionals.

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11:15 — 11:30

Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 11:30 and 13:00

11:30 — 13:00

Session 1 — Legal Reasoning and Argumentation (Chair: Petr Křemen) 

Roberta Calegari and Giovanni Sartor

A model for the burden of persuasion in argumentation (Long paper)

Liuwen Yu, Réka Markovich and Leon van der Torre

Interpretations of Support among Arguments (Long paper)

Guido Governatori and Antonino Rotolo

Free Choice Permissions in Defeasible Deontic Logic (Long paper)

Heng Zheng, Davide Grossi and Bart Verheij

Precedent Comparison in the Precedent Model Formalism: A Technical Note (Short paper)

Giovanni Sileno, Alexander Boer and Tom Van Engers

Monitoring and enforcement as a second-order guidance problem (Short paper)

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13:00 — 14:00

Lunch Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 14:00 and 15:30

14:00 — 15:30

Session 2 — Legal Knowledge Extraction I (Chair: Jakub Harašta)

Huihui Xu, Jaromir Savelka and Kevin Ashley

Using Argument Mining for Legal Text Summarization (Long paper)

Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo and Teofilo De Campos

Topic Modelling Brazilian Supreme Court Lawsuits (Long paper)

Erwin Filtz, María Navas-Loro, Cristiana Santos, Axel Polleres and Sabrina Kirrane

Events Matter: Extraction of Events from Court Decisions (Long paper)

Oliver Ray, Amy Conroy and Rozano Imansyah

Summarisation with Majority Opinion (Short paper)

Karl Branting, Carlos Balhana, Craig Pfeifer, John Aberdeen and Bradford Brown

Judges are from Mars, Pro Se Litigants are from Venus: Predicting Decisions from Lay Text (Short paper)

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 15:30 — 15:45

Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 15:40 and 17:25

15:45 — 17:25

Session 3 — Privacy (Chair: Giovanni Sileno)

Kartik Chawla and Joris Hulstijn

A Taxonomy For the Representation of Privacy and Data Control Signals in Smartphone-based Fitness Trackers (Long paper)

Valentina Leone and Luigi Di Caro

The Role of Vocabulary Mediation to Discover and Represent Relevant Information in Privacy Policies (Long paper)

Paul Ryan, Harshvardhan Pandit and Rob Brennan

A Common Semantic Model of the GDPR Register of Processing Activities (Short paper)

Paulo H. C. Alves, Isabella Z. Frajhof, Fernando A. Correia, Clarisse de Souza and Helio Lopes

Permissioned blockchains: Towards privacy management and data regulation compliance (Short paper)

Ellen Poplavska, Thomas B. Norton, Shomir Wilson and Norman Sadeh

From Prescription to Description: Mapping the GDPR to a Privacy Policy Corpus Annotation Scheme (Short paper)

Ioannis Chrysakis, Giorgos Flouris, George Ioannidis, Maria Makridaki, Theodore Patkos, Yannis Roussakis, Georgios Samaritakis, Alexandru Stan, Nikoleta Tsabanaki, Elias Tzortzakakis and Elisjana Ymeralli

Evaluating the data privacy of mobile applications through crowdsourcing (Short paper)

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17:25 — 17:40

Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 17:40 and 18:30

17:40 — 18:30

Session 4 — Legal Reasoning and Models (Chair: Petr Křemen)

Gordon Pace

A General Theory of Contract Conflicts with Environmental Constraints (Long paper)

Wachara Fungwacharakorn and Ken Satoh

Generalizing Culprit Resolution in Legal Debugging with Background Knowledge (Long paper)

Lu-Chi Liu, Giovanni Sileno and Tom van Engers

Digital Enforceable Contracts (DEC): Making Smart Contracts Smarter (Short paper)

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FRIDAY, December 11th, 2020

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 10:00 and 11:00

10:00 — 11:00

Invited talk by Raja Chatila (Chair: Serena Villata)

​Can AI Systems be Trustworthy?  ​

Modern AI systems have become of widespread use in almost all sectors with a strong impact on our society. However, the very methods on which they rely, based on Machine Learning techniques for processing data to predict outcomes and to make decisions, are opaque, prone to bias and may produce wrong answers. This raises several ethical, legal and societal issues, especially when they are used in critical applications such as healthcare, warfare or justice.

Properties such as transparency, explainability, technical robustness and safety, are key to build governance frameworks and to make them operational, so that to align the development and use of AI systems with fundamental values and human rights.

The talk will overview applications of AI systems and introduce the basics of machine learning methods. Then requirements for making these systems trustworthy, according to the EU High-level expert group on AI will be detailed.​

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11:00 — 11:15

Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 11:15 and 12:45

11:15 — 12:45

Session 1 — Machine Learning for the Legal Domain (Chair: Pompeu Casanovas)

Evan Gretok, David Langerman and Wesley Oliver

Transformers for Classifying Fourth Amendment Elements and Factors Tests (Long paper)

Kripabandhu Ghosh, Sachin Pawar, Girish Palshikar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Vasudeva Varma

Retrieval of Prior Court Cases using Witness Testimonies (Long paper)

Hanif Bhuiyan, Guido Governatori, Andy Bond, Sebastien Demmel, Mohammad Badiul Islam and Andry Rakotonirainy

Traffic Rules Encoding using Defeasible Deontic Logic (Long paper)

Lucie Gianola, Eriks Ajausks, Victoria Arranz, Chomicha Bendahman, Laurent Bié, Claudia Borg, Aleix Cerdà, Khalid Choukri, Montse Cuadros, Ona De Gibert, Hans Degroote, Elena Edelman, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Ángela Franco Torres, Mercedes García Hernandez, Aitor García Pablos, Albert Gatt, Cyril Grouin, Manuel Herranz, Alejandro Adolfo Kohan, Thomas Lavergne, Maite Melero, Patrick Paroubek, Mickaël Rigault, Mike Rosner, Roberts Rozis, Lonneke Van Der Plas, Rinalds Vīksna and Pierre Zweigenbaum

Automatic removal of identifying information in official EU languages for public administrations: the MAPA project (Short paper)

Rohan Nanda, Llio Humphreys, Lorenzo Grossio and Adebayo Kolawole John

Multilingual Legal Information Retrieval System for Mapping Recitals and Normative Provisions (Long paper)

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12:45 — 13:45

Lunch Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 13:45 and 16:00

13:45 — 16:00

Session 2 — Legal Knowledge Extraction II (Chair: Floris Bex)

Francesco Sovrano, Monica Palmirani and Fabio Vitali

Legal Knowledge Extraction for Knowledge Graph Based Question-Answering (Long paper)

Francesco Tarasconi, Milad Botros, Matteo Caserio, Gianpiero Sportelli, Giuseppe Giacalone, Fabrizio Zanetta, Luca Vignati and Carlotta Uttini

Natural Language Processing Applications in Case-law Text Publishing (Long paper)

Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Šavelka, Vern Walker, Kevin Ashley and Karim Benyekhlef

Sentence Embeddings and High-speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer-Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents (Long paper)

Alina Petrova, Thomas Lukasiewicz and John Armour

Extracting Outcomes from Appellate Decisions in US State Courts (Long paper)

Wolfgang Alschner, Daniel D'Alimonte, Sophie Gadbois and Giovanni Guiga

Plain Language: Automatic Readability Assessment of Statutes (Short paper)

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16:00 — 16:15

Break

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WATCH/LISTEN BETWEEN 16:15 and 18:00

16:15 — 17:45

Session 3 — Applications of AI & Law Technology (Chair: Matthias Grabmair)

Giovanni Iacca, Francesca Lagioia, Andrea Loreggia and Giovanni Sartor

A Genetic Approach to the Ethical Knob (Long paper)

 Tien-Hsuan Wu, Ben Kao, Anne Sy Cheung, Michael Mk Cheung, Chen Wang, Yongxi Chen, Guowen Yuan and Reynold Cheng

Integrating Domain Knowledge in AI-assisted Criminal Sentencing of Drug Trafficking Cases (Long paper)

 Daphne Odekerken and Floris Bex

Towards transparent human-in-the-loop classification of fraudulent web shops (Short paper)

Morgan Gray, Wesley Oliver and Arthur Crivella

Identifying the Factors of Suspicion (Short paper)

Pedro V Hernández Serrano, Kody Moodley, Gijs van Dijck and Michel Dumontier

Sleeping Beauties in Case Law (Short paper)

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17:45 — 18:00

Closing remarks