2nd CfP LEGAL 2024
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies
Workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy
https://legal2024.mobileds.de/May 20, 2024
About the Workshop
2023 is likely to be remembered as a year dominated by discussions about Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM). These technologies require data to be
collected and utilized in unprecedented amounts. Large sets of Language data are owned by
stakeholders that are not necessarily involved in the development of such technologies.
To use these sets for AI and LLM, it is essential to repackage and repurpose them for
such endeavor. Language data, despite their intangible nature, are often subject to legal
constraints which need to be addressed in order to guarantee lawful access to and re-use
of these data. In recent years, considerable efforts have been made to adapt legal
frameworks to the advancements in technology while taking into account the interests of
various stakeholders. From the technological perspective, the strict consideration of
legal aspects imposes further questions besides pure recording technology and participant
consent. This arises in several key elements:
- What is the Intellectual Proprietary status of Large Language sets, the corresponding
Large Language Models, and their potential outputs?
- How can identifying information used in deep learning be removed or anonymized (and is
this mandatory), how reliable are predictions/ models based on anonymized data?
- Which impact does this have on the usability, computational costs?
The purpose of this full-day workshop is to build bridges between technology and legal
framework, and discuss current legal and ethical issues in the human language technology
sector.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: March 4, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2024
Camera ready: April 5, 2024
Workshop Day: May 20, 2024
Topics
- Impact of statutory exceptions on text and speech data mining practices in the field of
Human Language Technologies.
- Impact of the regulatory environment at the international level (e.g. EU Data Act,
Digital Governance Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act; the Chinese “2023 draft rules on
generative AI”, the USA Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and other international or
national regulations) on the circulation and use of language data.
- Legal issues related to the production and use of Large Language Models (Intellectual
Property, Data Governance and Data Protection aspects).
- Concrete applications as to how language technologies can help resolve legal issues
related to data collection, data sharing and data reuse.
- Ethical considerations related to personal data collection and re-use
- Trust and transparency in language and speech technologies
- Efficient anonymization techniques, and the related responsibility, and their impact on
usability and performance
- Re-identification issues/De-anonymization approaches and techniques
- Harmonizing differing perspectives of data scientists and legal experts, worldwide
Submission
1500-2000 words extended abstracts are needed at first for submission. The full papers
will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC-COLING main conference. For
these, the instructions of the main conference need to be followed @
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/START Submission Page:
https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/legal2024/Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards,
evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a
new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share
the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability
of experiments (including evaluation ones).
Organizers
Ingo Siegert, OvG University Magdeburg (Germany)
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France)
Pawel Kamocki, IDS Mannheim (Germany)
Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA (France)
