Workshop on Web Applications for the Legal Domain

WALD'2001

At INAP2001

20-22 October 2001

University of Tokyo (Sanjo Conference Hall)

Tokyo, Japan





Introduction

Internet and its services, namely the WWW, is changing the way our society is organised and how people work, communicate, and access the information. The legal domain is one of the areas where it is possible to find major changes due to the impact of these new technologies.

In fact, the online capabilities of Internet are changing the way legal information is stored, represented, and retrieved. New tools for cooperative co-authoring of legal documents are being developed and law agents, which search the web legal knowledge bases trying to help us solving specific problems, are already a reality.

 Objectives The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the impact of Internet and the WWW in the legal domain.

Our goals are to bring together researchers working on different topics of these fields and to discuss the actual state of the art and its major problems. The final goal is to identify and discuss future directions of research and to enable the increase of cooperation between the participants.

As this workshop is integrated in INAP'2001 - International Conference on Applications of Prolog, a special focus will be made to the use of logic programming tools in the development of web legal systems.

Authors are invited to submit papers on topics relating the WWW and the legal domain, including but not restricted to:
 


Special encouragement is given to submissions concerning the use of logic programming and web legal systems.
 

 Venue WALD'2001 will be held during INAP'2001 at the University of Tokyo (Sanjo Conference Hall) in Tokyo, Japan from 20 to 22 October 2001. Submission Details Papers should not exceed 5000 words and they should be prepared accordingly with the Springer's format rules. A complete description of this format is available at Springer's site.
A post-conference book "Content Management and Decision Support Systems" with the best contributions to INAP2001 will be published by Springer within their Lecture Notes of Computer Science series.
Authors should send a postscript file of their papers to the workshop organiser (pq@uevora.pt ). Important dates Paper submission: June 20, 2001
Author notification: July 20, 2001
Camera Ready version: Aug 20, 2001
Conference: Oct 20-22, 2001 Workshop Organiser Paulo Quaresma, University of Evora & AI Center of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal pq@uevora.pt