AI4Legs - third edition - 2024: AI for Legislation

Co-located with the 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2024)

Objectives

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing various sectors, including governments, public administrations, institutions and parliaments. The emerging use of LLM and generative AI stimulate different scenarios of applications in Parliaments, even if in an experimental manner. However, despite its potential, AI's use in parliaments remains under-analyzed by the research community. AI’s integration into parliaments must align with legal theory and constitutional frameworks to preserve democratic values.

Parliaments are starting to explore AI through proofs-of-concept in three main key areas:

• Administrative tasks: AI helps automate repetitive jobs, streamline tasks like summarizing amendments, and preprocess intellectual tasks such as consolidating draft laws.
• Legislative tasks: AI supports lawmakers by retrieving legal sources, simulating the impact of new bills, and ensuring compliance with policy goals and norms.
• Participation tasks: AI enhances public access to laws via chatbots or portals, assisting with legal queries.

Parliaments with strong digital transformation strategies are better positioned to implement AI effectively, requiring digitized document systems and advanced legal standards like LegalXML, semantic web, NLP tools.

This workshop would like to discuss these challenging questions with interdisciplinary instruments coming from the philosophy of law, Constitutional law, legal informatics including AI&Law, computational linguistics, computer science, HCI and Legal design. We intend also to provide the state of the art of the most advanced applications of AI in support of better regulation, law-making system, aims to find answers to these questions using.

Organizer: Monica Palmirani (Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, ALMA-AI, University of Bologna)
This workshop is organized inside of the ERC HyperModeLex funded by the European Commission Grant ID 101055185.

Topics

• Fundamental legal concepts and principles concerning the eLegislation

• Theory of law and ICT in the legislative process

• Legal XML and XML Rules for the legislative process

• Generative AI in the legislative process

• AI/ML for Legislative Process

• Government Linked Open Data (GLOD)

• Legal ontologies and legal knowledge graphs for better regulation

• Smart Data and the Semantic Web in legislative domain

• Governance and deliberative models of democracy using AI

• Blockchain distributed ledger technology for law-making process

• Visualization of legal knowledge for transparency in legislative domain

• NLP tools for capturing legal knowledge in legislative domain

• Legal language and NLP representation

• Legal design and visualization of the legislative knowledge

• Modelling the rule of law in the law-making process

• Interpretation modelling of legislation

• Data analytics for legislation

• Large Language models

• Neuro-symbolic, Knowledge Graph, RAG

Programme

AI4Legs – III - Artificial Intelligence for Legislation

Programme

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Important dates

Draft paper Springer LNAI format 10 pages: Nov. 17th 2024 AoE

Workshop presentation: tbd

Notification of acceptance:  Nov. 30^th 2024

Camera ready (Springer LNAI): December  11^th 2024

Publication (selected papers) LNAI: AICOL volume, Springer 2026

Submission guidelines

Papers should be in English and must be submitted at AI4Legs Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4legsiii.

• Position Papers (8 pages)
• Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
• Min. 6000 words and max. 15000 words.
• Please upload all submissions in LNCS-LNAI format

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least by 3 PC members before being accepted for presentation at the Workshop.
A second peer review-round will be carried out before submission to the next AICOL volume at LNAI.

Programme Committee

Paulo H. C. Alves, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

María Luisa Alvite Díez, Universidad de León

Pompeu Casanovas, UAB

Giuseppe Contissa, University of Bologna

Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Nicoletta Fornara, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

Guido Governatori, Independent researcher

Mustafa Hashmi, Data 61 , CSIRO

Silvia Llorente, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Marco Manna, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria

Mercedes Martinez-Gonzalez, University of Valladolid

Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Jagiellonian University

Jose Palma, University of Murcia

Marta Poblet, RMIT University

Radim Polčák, Masaryk University

Shashishekar Ramakrishna, EY - AI Labs / Free University of Berlin

Livio Robaldo, Legal Innovation Lab Wales, University of Swansea

Salvatore Sapienza, University of Bologna

Giovanni Sartor, EUI/CIRSFID

Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University

Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University

John Zeleznikow, La Trobe University