Jurix 2007 Workshop on Multimedia Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Law


Multimedia and law is an emerging and promising field. The increasing use of multimedia in courts, parliaments, ministries and other legal institutions expands the domain of semantic mining tools to legal audio and video repositories.
This Workshop aims at establishing the state of the art in this field. Cross-media knowledge representations and reasoning and navigation tools may be developed and implemented. Semantics may be used  to extract, categorize, index, structure and present visual and audio material. Legal ontologies and multimedia ontologies may be aligned and merged. We face new problems like diarization, the link between images and legal knowledge or the connection between emotions and face recognition.
Topics
Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:
  • Knowledge acquisition
  • Legal knowledge representation
  • Multimedia and legal ontologies
  • Ontologies, legal standards and machine learning
  • Ontologies and machine learning for classification tasks
  • Text Categorization and Ontology
  • AI techniques on legal standards
  • Ontologies and Semantic Web Services
  • Lexicons for Legal Applications (Information Retrieval, Legal Drafting)
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Prototypes and Applications in e-government, e-courts, e-administration
  • Integration tools for the analysis and presentation of multimedia legal assets
  • Semantic structuring, indexing and retrieval of Multimedia legal repositories
  • (Semi)-automatic annotation and meta data generation of video
  • Semantic tools for Multimedia summarization and navigation
  • Diarization
  • Face and emotional patterns recognition
  • Smart rooms
Submission details
  • Paper length: max. 14 pages
  • Paper format: Springer style format
  • Body text must be 11pt, Times New Roman, formatted to fit on 118mm x 196mm
  • Figures must be included and ***sent as separated files in eps or tif format (300dpi at least)***
  • References must follow the style provided with the enclosed templates.
  • Submit abstracts and papers through this link.
Papers will be published at European Press Academic Publishing.
Important dates
  • October 1st, 2007: Abstract submission (optional)
  • November 30th 2007: Paper submission (new extended deadline!)
  • November December 3rd: Notification of acceptance
  • December 12th: Workshop at JURIX-07
  • January 15th: Camera-ready
  • February 15th: Publication
Organization
  • UAB Institute of Law and Technology-IDT
  • UAB Superior School of Engineering-ETSE
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Xavier Binefa  
  • Marie-France Moens
  • José Manuel López-Cobo 
  • Pompeu Casanovas
Scientific committee
  • Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
  • Joost Breuker, Leibniz Center for Law, Amsterdam
Program committee
  • Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Telefonica, Spain
  • Guido Boella, Università di Torino, Italy
  • Daniele Bourcier, CNRS, France
  • Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Jordi Carrabina, ETSE-UAB, Spain
  • Jesús Contreras, iSOCO, Spain
  • Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  • Enrico Francesconi, Institute of legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR), Italy
  • Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence(IDIAP), Switzerland
  • Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
  • Roberto García, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
  • Rinke Hoekstra, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands
  • John R. Kender, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, USA
  • Arno Lodder, Leiden University, The Nederlands
  • Laurens Mommers, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  • Wim Peters, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Paulo Quaresma, Departamento de Informatica,Universidade de Evora, Portugal
  • Angel Sancho,  Wolters Kluwer-la Ley, Spain
  • José Manuel Mateo, Wolters Kluwer-La Ley, Spain
  • Javier Serrano, Dpt. Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat
  • Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  • Peter Spyns, Free University Brussels
  • Daniela Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR), Italy
  • Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands