From honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick Thu Aug 26 19:48:43 EDT 1993 Article: 4595 of news.announce.conferences Xref: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:4595 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: ajit@dcs.ex.ac.uk (Ajit Narayanan) Subject: CFP: 4th National Conference on Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence Message-ID: <1993Aug26.202846.1327@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: Computer Science Dept. - University of Exeter. UK Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 20:28:46 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sat, 2 Oct 1993 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 74 X-Md4-Signature: 0f5262bcffd2b1514747334d9be72f16 4th National Conference on Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence 21-22 April, 1994, University of Exeter Call for Papers Themes ------ There are two main conference themes: legal knowledge representation, and ethical considerations. Legal knowledge representation: The fundamental problem of how to represent law computationally is still an unresolved question. Logic-based and rule-based representations and strategies, initially adopted because of the ease with which potentially useful mappings between legal knowledge and computational expression could be derived, are proving inadequate for conveying the many senses, nuances, social interpretations and uses of law which human experts effortlessly and intuitively adopt. One theme of the conference will be to explore next-generation computational representations of law, including object-oriented, frame-based and connectionist (distributed) representations, and to compare and contrast these with current representation techniques. Philosophical and jurisprudential assumptions, as well as practical applications in areas such as computer-aided learning of law and legal expert systems, fall within this theme. Ethical considerations: A second theme concerns the anxiety about the social and ethical implications of what is being done in the overlap area of law and AI. Do we really want to devote resources to describing, explaining and analyzing law, or to devising nonhuman responses about the interpretation and application of legal rules? PAPERS ADDRESSING OTHER ISSUES WHICH FALL WITHIN THE OVERLAP AREAS OF LAW, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND AI ARE ALSO WELCOME. Papers of less than 5000 words in length and including an abstract of less than 200 words should be sent to any of the local Academic Contacts by 1ST OCTOBER, 1993. Authors should clearly indicate the theme, if any, addressed by their paper. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 1st December, 1993 after papers have been refereed. Final versions of the papers will be required by 1st March, 1994 so that they can be distributed to participants in advance of the Conference. (Copyright will be retained by authors.) Conference details ------------------ The conference will start at 2pm on Thursday, 21 April and finish at 5pm on Friday, 22 April. A special tutorial introduction to neural computing representations of law will be offered on the morning of 22 April. Accommodation and full board, plus registration fees and a copy of the advanced proceedings, are estimated to be about 120 pounds for academics and 200 pounds for non-academics, with reductions for students. Registration forms, information and further details can be obtained from the local Academic Contacts. Academic Contacts ----------------- Mervyn Bennun, Department of Law, Amory Building, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ; tel. 0392 263161; M.E.Bennun@uk.ac.ex.cen Ajit Narayanan, Department of Computer Science, Old Library, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PT; tel. 0392 264064; ajit@uk.ac.exeter.dcs Indira Mahalingam Carr, Department of Law, Amory Building, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ; tel. 0392 263374; I.M.Carr@uk.ac.ex.cen