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# ASAIL 2023
Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text

### Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text
co-located with the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023)

### Braga, Portugal, 23rd September, 2023.

Edited by

### Francesca Lagioia (1)
Jack Mumford (2)
Daphne Odekerken (3)
Hannes Westermann (4)

(1) European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
(2) University of Liverpool, UK
(3) Utrecht University, Netherlands
(4) University of Montreal, Canada

## 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

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