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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Automated
Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts
ASAIL 2020

Preface
The Fourth Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts (ASAIL 2020) will be
held online on December 9, 2020, in conjunction with the 33rd International Conference on Legal
Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020). The purpose of the workshop is to provide a dedicated
venue for legal NLP related work for which there has been an increasing number of AI&Law conference
submissions. The workshop received 7 submissions, which were all peer-reviewed and accepted for
presentation. The final workshop program hence consists of 7 presentations (6 long, 1 short) and one
discussion session. The papers presented are contained in this volume.

10:15 - Workshop Opening

10:30-12:15 - Paper Session 1
    ● Classification of German Court Rulings: Detecting the Area of Law, Ingo Glaser and Florian
       Matthes
    ● Legal Language Modeling with Transformers, Lazar Peric, Stefan Mijic, Dominik Stammbach and
       Elliott Ash
    ● Topic Modelling of the Czech Supreme Court Decisions, Tereza Novotná, Jakub Harašta and Jakub
       Kól (Short Paper)
    ● Predictive Features of Persuasive Legal Texts, Karl Branting, Elizabeth Tippett, Charlotte Alexander,
       Sam Bayer, Paul Morawski, Carlos Balhana, and Craig Pfeifer

12:15-13:15 - Lunch Break

13:15-14:45 - Paper Session 2
    ● Cross-Domain Generalization and Knowledge Transfer in Transformers Trained on Legal Data,
       Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann and Karim Benyekhlef
    ● Automating the Classification of Finding Sentences for Linguistic Polarity, Vern R. Walker, Stephen
       R. Strong and Vern E. Walker
    ● Learning to Rank Sentences for Explaining Statutory Terms, Jaromir Savelka and Kevin D. Ashley

14:45-15:00 - Coffee Break




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15:00-17:00 - Discussion Session:
“How can legal NLP make real-world contributions in the short and long term?”
    ● Panelists:
           ○ Keren Weinshall, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
           ○ Bernhard Waltl, BMW Group
           ○ Rūta Liepiņa, Maastricht University
           ○ Karl Branting, MITRE Corporation
    ● Moderator:
           ○ Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool

The organizing committee expresses its sincere gratitude to all authors for their submissions and participation
in the workshop, to the program committee for its diligent reviewing, and to the workshop attendees.

The ASAIL 2020 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 (IGSG-CNR) and European Parliament
Matthias Grabmair, SINC GmbH, Germany
Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, USA
Bernhard Waltl, BMW Group AG, Germany
Adam Zachary Wyner, University of Aberdeen, UK

The ASAIL 2020 Program Committee
Tommaso Agnoloni, ITTIG-CNR
Nikolaos Aletras, The University of Sheffield
David Restrepo Amariles, HEC Paris
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Floris Bex, Utrecht University
Chris Giannella, The MITRE Corp.
Francesca Lagioia, University of Bologna
Rūta Liepiņa, European University Institute
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna
Craig Pfeifer, MITRE Corporation
Georg Rehm, DFKI
Livio Robaldo, Swansea University
Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University
Frank Schilder, Thomson Reuters
Oanh Tran, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Giulia Venturi, ILC-CNR
Serena Villata, CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis
Hannes Westermann, University of Montreal
Radboud Winkels, University of Amsterdam

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These proceedings are published online by the ASAIL organizing committee as
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
http://ceur-ws.org

Copyright © 2020 for the individual papers by the papers' authors.
Copyright © 2020 for the volume as a collection by its editors.
This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0).


December 2020

Proceedings volume compiled by:

Matthias Grabmair
SINC GmbH
Rheingaustraße 182
65203 Wiesbaden
Germany




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