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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2484/workshop.pdf
First International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for
Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA 2019)
Collocated with Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019)
Jack G. Conrad Jeremy Pickens
Thomson Reuters OpenText
Center for AI & Cognitive Computing Central Research
610 Opperman Drive 275 Frank Tompa Drive
St. Paul MN 55123 Waterloo ON NL2 0A1
USA Canada
jack.g.conrad@tr.com jpickens@opentext.com
INTRODUCTION
This workshop provided a platform for examining
Over the past decade, increased use of machine questions surrounding “AI as human augmentation”
learning and other artificial intelligence technologies for legal tasks (a.k.a. Intelligent Assistance or IA),
has significantly increased legal professionals’ particularly those related to legal practitioners’
abilities to efficiently access, process, and analyze interaction with digital information, including e-
digital information. AI breakthroughs continue to discovery. The focus of the workshop will be on
improve everything from advanced search to better understanding the interaction between human
information extraction and visualization to data and AI capabilities. The primary audience for the
summarization, classification, and review. At the workshop will include working attorneys, legal
same time, concerns over transparency and the researchers, computer science researchers, and AI
potential limitations of fully automated approaches to providers in the legal industry.
problems in the legal space have led to an upsurge of
Open questions remain about if/when human
interest in methods that incorporate human
interaction is necessary to produce more effective
intelligence –- the so-called "human-in- the-loop"
results, if/when the human or AI should take the
approach to AI. The debate over using AI as a
initiative in the collaboration (i.e., whether IA or AI
replacement for humans, as opposed to an
should dominate), and if/when an increased
augmentation of human abilities, otherwise known as
interpretability and explainability of AI models is
IA or Intelligent Assistance, is over half a century old,
necessary for acceptable and successful human-AI
but currently the pendulum is swinging back toward
collaboration in the legal domain. The ability of
the augmentation or IA perspective. However, not all
systems to analyze and identify exploitable patterns of
human-AI collaborative effort is guaranteed to be
human interaction and assessment in tasks like EDD
fruitful. Research into the nature, degree, and
(Electronic Data Discovery, or technology-aided
efficiency of the human contribution to various
discovery) is a significant area of inquiry as well.
applications is needed to ensure that the efforts and
Empirical comparisons between pure AI versus IA or
resources are deployed effectively.
human-augmented AI – favorable or unfavorable – in
the form of user studies or simulations, are
encouraged. Proposals on how best to evaluate
In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop various methods of human augmentation are also
on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal welcome, as are analyses of the ethical implications of
Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA adopting AI as replacement versus AI as
2019), held in conjunction with ICAIL 2019. June 17, augmentation in legal applications.
2019. Montreal, QC, Canada.
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