ASAIL 2023
Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 24 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 17 papers were accepted for this volume, 12 as regular papers and 5 as short papers.

Session 1: Language Models in the Legal Domain

• Can GPT-4 Support Analysis of Textual Data in Tasks Requiring Highly Specialized Domain Expertise? 1-12
  Jaromir Savelka, Kevin Ashley, Morgan Gray, Hannes Westermann, Huihui Xu
• Towards Meaningful Paragraph Embeddings for Data-Scarce Domains: A Case Study in the Legal Domain 13-18
  Elize Herrewijnen, Dennis F W Craandijk
• Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models with Sentence Position Embeddings for Rhetorical Roles Recognition in Legal Opinions 19-27
  Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez, Laura Monceaux
• Automatic Rhetorical Roles Classification for Legal Documents using LEGAL-TransformerOverBERT 28-36
  Gabriele Marino, Daniele Licari, Praveen Bushipaka, Giovanni Comandé, Tommaso Cucinotta

Session 2: Automatic Legal Knowledge Extraction

• Bridging the Gap: Mapping Layperson Narratives to Legal Issues with Language Models 37-48
  Hannes Westermann, Sébastien Meeùs, Mia Godet, Aurore Troussel, Jinzhe Tan, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef
• Taking the Law More Seriously by Investigating Design Choices in Machine Learning Prediction Research 49-59
  Cor Steging, Silja Renooij, Bart Verheij
• Semantic Extraction of Key Figures and Their Properties From Tax Legal Texts Using Neural Models 60-71
  Daniel Steinigen, Marcin Namysl, Markus Hepperle, Jan Krekeler, Susanne Landgraf
• Contrast Is All You Need 72-82
  Burak Kilic, Floris Bex, Albert Gatt
• Organizing the Unorganized: A Novel Approach for Transferring a Taxonomy of Labels into Flat-Labeled Document Collections 83-92
  Michele Colombino, Laurentiu Jr Marius Zaharia, Giorgia Iacobellis, Rachele Mignone, Ivan Spada, Chiara Bonfanti, Emilio Sulis, Luigi Di Caro, Guido Boella

Session 3: Applied Legal Case Analysis

• Chasing the Invisible in the Grammar of Repetitions: A Network Analysis Approach to Fiscal State Aids 93-102
  Galileo Sartor, Piera Santin, Luigi Di Caro
• Applying NLP to Support Legal Decision-making in Administrative Appeal Boards in the EU 103-110
  Henrik Palmer Olsen, Malte Højmark-Bertelsen, Sebastian Felix Schwemer
• LexKey: A Keyword Generator for Legal Documents 111-121
  Benjamin Cérat, Olivier Salaün, Noreddine Ben Jillali, Marc-André Morissette, Isabela Pocovnicu, Emma Elliott, François Harvey
• CaseScope: An Enhanced Search Tool for European Court Cases 122-128
  Alexandre Correia, Pedro Evangelista, Nádia Soares, Eugénio Rocha, Cláudio Teixeira

Session 4: Structured Reasoning in the Legal Context

• Toward Implementation Science: A Case Study Using LA-MPS to Research Argument Elements at Scale 129-140
  Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong
• Argumentative Segmentation Enhancement for Legal Summarization 141-150
  Huihui Xu, Kevin Ashley
• Extracting ODRL Digital Right Representations from License Texts using AMR 151-157
  Malo Revel, Aurélien Lamercerie, Annie Foret, Zoltan Miklos
• Induction of Narrative Models for Legal Case Elicitation 158-167
  Karl Branting, Sarah McLeod, Bryant Park, Karine Megerdoomian