ICAIL Best Paper Awards Winners

ICAIL 2023 - Braga

Best Paper Award – in honor of Carole Hafner
David D. Lewis, Lenora Gray, Mark Noel, "Confidence Sequences for Evaluating One-Phase Technology-Assisted Review"

Best Innovative Application Paper Award – in honor of Peter Jackson
Quinten Steenhuis, Bryce Willey, David Colarusso, "Beyond Readability with RateMyPDF: A Combined Rule-based and Machine Learning Approach to Improving Court Forms"

Doctoral Consortium Best Paper Award
Claire Barale, "Empowering Refugee Claimants and their Lawyers: Using Machine Learning to Examine Decision-Making in Refugee Law"

Best Student Paper Award – in honor of Don Berman
Daphne Odekerken, Floris Bex, Henry Prakken, "Justification, stability and relevance for case-based reasoning with incomplete focus cases"

ICAIL 2021 - Sao Pãulo

Best Paper Award -- in honor of Carole Hafner
Neel Guha, Lucia Zheng, Brandon Ray Anderson, Peter Henderson and Daniel En-Wenn Ho, "When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the CaseHOLD Dataset of 53,000+ Legal Holdings"

Best Innovative Application Paper Award -- in honor of Peter Jackson
Andrew Paley, Andong L. Li Zhao, Harper Pack, Sergio Servantez, Rachel F. Adler, Marko Sterbentz, Adam Pah, David Schwartz, Cameron Barrie, Alexander Einarsson, Kristian Hammond,
"From Data to Information: Automating Data Science to Explore the U.S. Court System"

Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award
Alexander Stepanov, "The Digital Administrative Act"

Best Student Paper Award -- in honor of Donald Berman
Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Koustav Rudra, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh, "Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents"

ICAIL 2019 - Montreal

Best Paper Award -- in honor of Carole Hafner
Songül Tolan, Marius Miron, Emilia Gomez, Carlos Castillo, "Why Machine Learning May Lead to Unfairness: Evidence from Risk Assessment for Juvenile Justice in Catalonia"

Best Innovative Application Paper Award -- in honor of Peter Jackson
Karl Branting, Craig Pfeifer, Lisa Ferro, Alex Yeh, Bradford Brown, Brandy Weiss, Mark Pfaff, Amartya Chakraborty, "Semi-Supervised Methods for Explainable Legal Prediction"

Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award
Robert van Doesburg, "The False, the Former, and the Parish Priest"

Best Student Paper Award -- in honor of Donald Berman
Marco Almada, "Human intervention in automated decision-making"

ICAIL 2017 - London

Best Paper Award -- in honor of Carole Hafner
John Horty, "Reasoning with Dimensions and Magnitudes"

Best Innovative Application Paper Award -- in honor of Peter Jackson
Christian Cardellino, Milagro Teruel, Laura Alonso Alemany and Serena Villata, "Low-cost, High-coverage Legal Named Entity Recognizer, Classifier and Linker"

Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award
Mirna El Ghosh, "Automation of Legal Reasoning and Decision Based on Ontologies"

Best Student Paper Award -- in honor of Donald Berman
Silviu Pitis "Methods for Retrieving Alternative Contract Language Using a Prototype"

ICAIL 2015 - San Diego

Best Paper Award -- in honor of Carole Hafner
Floris Bex, for his paper entitled "An Integrated Theory of Causal Stories and Evidential Arguments"

Best Innovative Application Paper Award -- in honor of Peter Jackson
Erik Hemberg, Jacob Rosen, Geoff Warner, Sanith Wijesinghe and Una-May O’Reilly, for their paper entitled "Tax Non-Compliance Detection Using Co-Evolution of Tax Evasion Risk and Audit Likelihood"
Jacob Rosen received the award plaque on behalf of his colleagues at MIT (Hemberg and O'Reilly) and Sanith Wijesinghe received the award plaque on behalf of his colleague at MITRE (Warner).

Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award
Jyothi Vinjumur, for her paper involving E-Discovery entitled “Methodology for Constructing Test Collections using Collaborative Annotation"
She also had a full-length conference paper accepted that was entitled: “Evaluating Expertise and Sample Bias Effects for Privilege Classification in E-Discovery”.

Best Student Paper Award -- in honor of Donald Berman
Sjoerd T. Timmer, for his paper entitled "A Structure-guided Approach to Capturing Bayesian Reasoning about Legal Evidence in Argumentation"
co-authored with John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij