Workshop on the Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation:
Language, Logic, and Computation



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Overview:

The aim of this workshop is to draw together researchers around the issues of the empirical analysis, formalisation, and implementation of legal argumentation in natural language. Such a system would be a decision-support tool which translates natural language arguments into and out of an argumentation framework or logic which supports reasoning and inference. As the interface is in natural language, the tool would be accessible to a wide range of end-users. The workshop builds on recent advances in natural language engineering and argumentation including: controlled languages, predictive editors, text mining and corpus analysis, natural language parsing, ontology construction, translation of natural language sentences into first order logic, logical inference, linguistic analysis of argumentation, and computational theories of argumentation. It draws on an interdisciplinary community in Computer Science, Linguistics, and the Law. While argumentation can be addressed in a broad range of areas, the workshop focusses particularly on the language, logic, and computation of legal argumentation such as that found between lawyers arguing a case before a court or found in legal briefs and decisions where justifications are given for and against a decision.

Topics of Interest:

Author Guidelines

Important Dates

Note: one of the authors of the position paper must register for the ICAIL conference.

Presentation:

Each position paper will have 20 minutes for presentation.

Contact:

Adam Wyner: adam@wyner.info

Blog

Natural Language Engineering of Argumentation: NaLEA

Program Chairs

Adam Wyner (Department of Computer Science, University College London)
Tom van Engers (Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam)

Program Committee (Preliminary):