Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts Automated The ASAIL 2017 Organizing Committee Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK Karl Branting, MITRE Corporation, USA Enrico Francesconi, Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR), Publications Office of the European Union Matthias Grabmair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems, Inc., USA Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, USA Adam Zachary Wyner, University of Aberdeen , UK

The Second Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts (ASAIL 2017) was held on June 16, 2017, at King's College London, co-located with the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2017). The purpose of the workshop was to provide a dedicated venue for legal NLP related work for which there had been an increasing number of main ICAIL conference submissions. This proceedings volume contains all papers which were submitted for publication after the event. The final program was as follows:

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Kripa Rajshekhar, Wlodek Zadrozny and Sri Sneha Varsha Garapati, ​Analytics of Patent Case Rulings: Empirical Evaluation of Models for Legal Relevance ​ [remote presentation only] Arjit Srivastava and Navjyoti Singh, ​A dataset for Indian Legal Judgments: ICJ [remote presentation only] The workshop was a success and received a higher number of submissions and had greater attendance than the first workshop at ICAIL 2015. A total of 14 papers were submitted and peer reviewed. In order to be as inclusive as possible, the committee decided to accept all papers and not invite a speaker for the workshop event. On June 9, before the start of the main conference, there were 88 registrations. Eventually, the workshop was well attended throughout the whole program.

The organizing committee expresses its sincere gratitude to all authors of the accepted papers for their submissions and presentations, to the program committee for its diligent reviewing, and to the workshop attendees for a productive and intriguing series of talks and discussions.

July 2018 These proceedings are published online by the ASAIL organizing committee as CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org Copyright © 2018 for the individual papers by the papers' authors.

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