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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Automated Semantic
Analysis of Information in Legal Text
ASAIL 2021
Preface
The Fifth Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts (ASAIL 2021) will be
held online on June 25, 2021, in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Law (ICAIL 2021). 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 seven submissions. Four papers were accepted for publication and presentation as full papers after
peer-review. The final workshop program hence consists of four presentations and one discussion session.
The papers presented are contained in this volume.
8:45 - Workshop Opening
9:00-11:00 - Paper Session
● Prior Case Retrieval using Evidence Extraction from Court Judgements, Basit Ali, Ravina More,
Sachin Pawar, and Girish K. Palshikar
● Automatic Judgement Forecasting for Pending Applications of the European Court of Human Rights,
Masha Medvedeva, Ahmet Üstun, Xiao Xu, Michel Vols, and Martijn Wieling
● Explainable Rule Extraction via Semantic Graphs, Gabor Recski, Björn Lellmann, Adam Kovacs,
and Allan Hanbury
● Automatic Semantic Annotation for the Easification of Action Rule Legislative Sentences for
Specialist Readers, Sherry Maynard
11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 - Panel Discussion
“The Role of Platform Ecosystems in the Future of Legal Text Analytics”
● Panelists:
○ Isabelle Biallaß, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
○ Le-Minh Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
○ Bernhard Waltl, BMW Group AG, Germany
○ Adam Ziegler, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, USA
● Moderator:
○ Enrico Francesconi, Italian National Research Council (IGSG-CNR) and European
Parliament, Italy
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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 2021 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, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Vern R. Walker, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, USA
Bernhard Waltl, BMW Group AG, Germany
Adam Zachary Wyner, Swansea University, UK
The ASAIL 2021 Program Committee
Tommaso Agnoloni, Italian National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR)
David Restrepo Amariles, HEC Paris
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Floris Bex, Utrecht University
Luigi Di Caro, University of Torino
Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Chris Gianella, MITRE Corporation
Rajaa El Hamdani, HEC Paris
Francesca Lagioia, European University Institute
Marco Lippi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta
Masoud Makrehchi, University of Ontario
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
Giulia Venturi, Italian National Research Council (ILC-CNR)
Serena Villata, Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis
These proceedings are published online by the ASAIL organizing committee as
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
http://ceur-ws.org
Copyright © 2021 for the individual papers by the papers' authors.
Copyright © 2021 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).
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June 2021
Proceedings volume compiled by:
Matthias Grabmair
Department of Informatics
Technical University of Munich
Boltzmannstr. 3/I
85748 Garching
Germany
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