Program

• 14:00-14:15 Opening
• 14:15-15:30 Papers presentation
  • A bottom up approach for licences classification and selection
    Enrico Daga, Mathieu D'Aquin, Enrico Motta and Aldo Gangemi
  • The Role of Pragmatics in Legal Norm Representation
    Shashishekar Ramakrishna, Łukasz Gorski and Adrian Paschke
  • Towards a High-level Controlled Language for Legal Sources on the Semantic Web
    François Lévy and Adeline Nazarenko, Adam Wyner
• 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00-16:25 Papers presentation
  • Semantic Annotation of Finance Regulatory Text using Multilabel Classification
    Kartik Asooja, Georgeta Bordea, Gabriela Vulcu, Leona O'Brien, Angelina Espinoza, Elie Abi-Lahoud, Paul Buitelaar and Tom Butler
• 16:25-17:15 Keynote speech
  Antoine Zimmermann
  Title: Self-regulating Semantic Web Agents
  Abstract: The Web must be used according to the rules: laws, institutional norms and regulations, social norms, licenses, ethics. People interacting with the Web are able to understand terms of use, are supposed to know about the laws, are naturally social-aware agents. However, with the evolution of the Web of Data, the Web of Applications, the Web of APIs, the Semantic Web, users of the Web are more and more often machines, software agents that do not have these intrinseque abilities. In the talk, I will show work done in my group on self-regulation and how this can be combined with Semantic Web technologies to make well-behaving Web agents.
• 17:15-17:30 Closing

Call for Papers

The two research areas of Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, and the Semantic Web are very much interconnected. The legal domain is an ideal field of study for Semantic Web researchers, as it uses and contributes to most of the topics that are relevant to the community. Given the complex interactions of legal actors, legal sources and legal processes, as well as the relevance and potential impact of decisions in the juridical and social processes of a country, it provides a challenging context and an important opportunity for groundbreaking research results. At the same time, Semantic Web formalisms and technologies provide a set of technical instruments which can be fruitfully adopted by legal experts to represent, interlink, and reason over legal knowledge and related aspects such as provenance, privacy, and trust. In particular, Semantic Web technology facilitates standards-based legal knowledge representation, which enables the possibility of legal information reuse over the Web.

Ontologies, knowledge extraction and reasoning techniques have been studied by the Artificial Intelligence & Law community for years, but only few and sparse connections with the Semantic Web community have resulted from these interactions. The aim of this workshop is to study the challenges that the legal domain poses to Semantic Web research, and how Semantic Web technologies and formalisms can contribute to address these open issues. This way, we pro- mote the use of legal knowledge for addressing Semantic Web research questions and, vice versa, to use Semantic Web technologies as tools for reasoning over legal knowledge. In particular, the workshop will look for original, high quality contributions that explore the following topics (but not limited to):

• Modeling access policies to Semantic Web datasets
• Semantic Web and online dispute resolution and mediation
• Semantic sensor networks in lawsuits, crisis mapping, emergencies and stand-by forces
• Semantic Web techniques and e-discovery in large legal document collections
• Semantic Web technologies and opinion collection and analysis
• Legal content and knowledge in the Linked Data
• Knowledge acquisition and concept representation on annotations and legal texts
• Legal ontology process and management
• Legal reasoning and query in the Semantic Web
• Scalability issues in representing law and legal texts
• Analysis of provenance information to detect violations of norms/policies
• Expressive vs. lightweight representations of legal content
• Core and domain ontologies in the legal domain
• Theories, design patterns and ontologies in legal argumentation
• Time and legal content representation (texts, concepts, norms)
• OWL approaches to reasoning and legal knowledge
• Linking legal content to external resources
• Provenance, trust and metadata for authoritative sources
• SPARQL queries on large legal datasets
• Legal knowledge extraction using NLP and ontologies
• User-friendly applications and interface design to interact with legal semantic information
• Publishing/reusing legal-related content in Linked Data
• Rules and Automated Reasoning in the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing
• Law, Intellectual property and legal issues for data and schemas
• Licenses for Linked Open Data
• Information ethics and the Semantic Web

Submission instructions

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions:

• Full research papers (up to 12 pages)
• Short research papers (up to 6 pages)
• Poster papers (up to 4 pages)
• Demo papers (up to 4 pages)

All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to LNCS instructions for authors.

Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System.

Proceedings and Post-Proceedings

We are planning to publish the full conference proceedings as part of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

In addition, relevant submissions will be considered for a further book publication.

Important Dates

• March 6, 2015: Paper submission deadline (23:59 Hawaii time)
• March 16, 2015: Paper submission deadline (23:59 Hawaii time) [Extended]
• March 20, 2015: Paper submission deadline (23:59 Hawaii time) [Extended]
• April 3, 2015: Author notification
• April 20, 2015: Author notification
• April 17, 2015: Camera-ready copies due
• May 1, 2015: Camera-ready copies due
• June 1, 2015 (afternoon): Workshop

People

Track chairs

• Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
• Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna & ISTC-CNR, Italy

E-mail contact: ledaswan2015@easychair.org

Program Committee

• Adam Wyner
• Aldo Gangemi
• Daniela Tiscornia
• Enrico Francesconi
• Eva Blomqvist
• Floris Bex
• Gioele Barabucci
• Grigoris Antoniou
• Guido Governatori
• Isabella Distinto
• Jun Zhao
• Lalana Kagal
• Marco Comerio
• Maria Esther Vidal
• Mathieu D'Aquin
• Monica Palmirani
• Pompeu Casanovas
• Radboud Winkels
• Renato Iannella
• Rinke Hoekstra
• Roberto Garcia
• Sabrina Kirrane
• Serena Villata
• Silvio Peroni
• Thomas Bruce
• Víctor Rodríguez Doncel

Links

• Call for papers in TXT format
• ESWC 2015 web page