CfP: Workshop on Logic Representation of Traffic Rules (LoReTra)

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Call for Papers

Workshop on Logic Representation of Traffic Rules (LoReTra) in conjunction
with ICAIL 2023 The 19th International Conference on Artificial Inteligence
and Law

https://www.rechtsinformatik.saarland/en/loretra-icail-23

Motivation
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Using symbolic logic to formalise legal norms is one of the most traditional
goals of legal informatics as a scientific discipline. More than mere
theoretical value, this approach is also connected to promising real-world
applications involving, e.g., the observance of legal norms by highly
automated machines or even the (partial) automatisation of legal reasoning,
leading to new automated legal services.

Albeit the long research tradition on the use of logic to formalise legal
norms – be it by using classic logic systems (e.g., first-order logic), be
it by attempting to construct a  specific system of logic of norms (e.g.,
deontic logic) –, many challenges involved in the development of an adequate
methodology for the formalisation of concrete legal regulations remain
unsolved. This includes not only the choice of a sufficiently expressive
formal language or model, but also the concrete way through which a legal
text formulated in natural language is to be translated into the formal
representation.

The workshop LoReTra seeks to explore the various challenges connected with
the task of using formal languages and models to represent legal norms, at
the example of traffic rules, in a machine-readable manner, and reasoning
with such formalizations, e.g., in autonomous driving.

 
Topics
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LoReTra seeks to discuss current research questions concerning (among
others):

- Knowledge representation methods applicable to legal norms (in particular
traffic rules), including different types of (deontic) logic or comparable
formalisms
- Formalisation of and reasoning with rule-exceptions, rule-conflicts and/or
contrary-to-duty obligations
- Formalisation of abstract legal concepts and basic principles of law
(e.g., "human dignity", "mutual respect", "care", "danger", "trust")
- Models and approaches to the practical implementation of
law-formalisations (e.g., (legal) ontologies, LegalRuleML, PROLEG, reasoning
engines, SAT-solvers)
- Models and approaches - including automated methods - to adequately
'translate' legal provisions (especially traffic rules) from natural
language to a formal symbolism
- Legal and/or engineering challenges arising from the use of formal
representation methods to formalise legal norms (especially traffic rules)
- Methods and approaches for legal and ethical AI reasoning and compliance
checking in autonomous driving applying formalized traffic rules and legal
knowledge
- Machine learning methods and approaches for knowledge extraction and
learning and hybrid symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches for knowledge
representation and reasoning with traffic rules

We particularly invite submissions including experience reports on concrete
attempts at implementing formalisations of legal norms within an automated
system.

 
Scope
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The workshop aims to attract participants from various disciplines,
particularly from Computer Science, Law and Philosophy, and to be of
interest to anyone working on the application of knowledge representation
methods to the field of law.

 
Participation and Submission
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People interested in participating are invited to submit high quality,
original short (5-9 pages) or long papers (10-14 pages) in the CEUR-WS.org
style template CEURART (1-column variant), available at:

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

and

https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt.

Submitted papers must be original contributions written in English. Please
submit your paper via EasyChair.

Authors of the accepted papers will present at the workshop. The publication
of the submited papers (e.g. as CEUR workshop-proceedings) is intended.

 
Organizers
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Georg Borges (Saarland University, Germany)

Adrian Paschke (Freie Universität Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

 
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 17.4.2023

Notification of acceptance: 16.5.2023

Workshop: 23.6.2023

Workshop Website:
https://www.rechtsinformatik.saarland/en/loretra-icail-23

Received on Friday, 17 February 2023 11:50:38 UTC