The Legal Information Retrieval meets Artificial Intelligence (LIRAI) workshop series aims to provide a venue hosting discussion of novel ideas, evaluations, and success stories concerning the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Retrieval (IR) to the legal domain. All around the world, lawmakers, legal professionals, and citizens must cope with the sheer amount of legal knowledge present in legal documents. 

These documents can be norms, regulations, directives, legal cases, and other relevant material for legal practitioners, such as legal commentary. The continuous evolution of legal documents is a challenging setting, with implicit relationships playing an important role beyond explicit references. Recently, the adoption of shared machine-readable formats and FAIR principles, as well as methods and practices from the Semantic Web, have certainly improved the accessibility of legal knowledge and its interoperability. Still, retrieving legal knowledge and making sense of it are not solved problems. 

The legal community often has special requirements for retrieval systems (e.g., high recall, explainability). Artificial Intelligence (AI) is positioned as a lever to enhance our ability to find, understand, and correlate legal information, and to comprehend its relationship to reality, in terms of compliance evaluation and risk/benefit analysis. We call contributions on these topics in the form of papers, which will be collected in an open-access proceedings published on CEUR-WS.org and thus indexed by Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, and other citation databases. 

The First Workshop on Legal Information Retrieval meets Artificial Intelligence (LIRAI 2023) aims to foster a cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussion between experts from different fields (e.g., computer science, psychology, sociology, law, medicine, business, etc.) in order to discuss the interdependencies between Legal AI and Legal IR.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We accept short and regular papers, as well as position papers, demos, industrial papers and late breaking papers. The submission guidelines can be found on the Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/lirai-2023/call-for-papers. 

List of Topics

• Hypertext-based legal systems 

• Legal information retrieval

• Legal information extraction 

• Legal knowledge graphs  

• Relation extraction from legal documents 

• Explainability in legal document retrieval 

• High-recall settings in legal document retrieval 

• Legal ontologies 

• Legal document formats 

• FAIR publication of legal documents

Committees

Organizing committee

• Ernesto William De Luca
• Manuel Fiorelli
• Davide Picca
• Armando Stellato
• Sabine Wehnert

Publication

LIRAI'23 proceedings will be published in CEUR-WS proceedings.

Venue

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext 2023 conference in Rome, Italy.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to lirai@ovgu.de