The Semantic Interoperability Conference, organised by the European Commission in collaboration with the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, achieved an all-time high with 458 on site visitors and 803 followers online. You can watch the conference recordings here.
- The key takeaways are listed below;
- The recording of first part of the workshop (introduction and AI in policy design) is available here;
Introduction
- AI in the Spanish Public Administration and Justice: Javier Hernández Díez's speech focused on the use of AI in the field of justice and law enforcement. In particular, the speaker highlighted how the integration of AI technologies in the Spanish Ministry of Justice improved efficiency and decision-making in their activities.
- Digital-Ready Policymaking (DRPM): Zsofia Sziranyi introduced DRPM as a forward-looking approach to policymaking that would enable the smooth implementation of public policies. The speaker highlighted the importance of adopting innovative methodologies and tools, including AI and semantic technologies, in policy design and the need of building dynamic multidisciplinary teams to support a policy officer along the process.
AI in policy design
- AI for digital-ready policymaking in Denmark: Doctor Kristoffer Olsen and Professor Thomas Hildebrandt presented how AI can support policy officers in the policy design process in Denmark. Prof. Hildebrandt presented a project proposal that leverages AI technologies to detect legislation with high implementation risks and to develop methods for revising legislation to ensure it is digital-ready. It was also highlighted that the real mission is to stimulate learning and reflection on what a good digital-ready policy is.
- The Semantic Text Analyzer (SeTA): Vidas Daudaravicius presented the SeTA for evidence gathering. This pilot tool provides both human and machine interfaces for finding evidence and legislation across EU knowledge basis, such as Cellar and Cordis.
- The SORTIS project and the Regulatory Reporting Metadata Vocabulary: Cecile Guasch and Professor Monica Palmirani focused on the Study On Regulatory reporTIng Standards (SORTIS) and its intermediate result - the Regulatory Reporting Metadata Vocabulary (RRMV) - an ontology that models regulatory reporting. They discussed the reasons for the development of this ontology and its potential evolutions through Hybrid AI for the legal domain. In particular, they focused on how it could be used for streamlining business processes and reducing administrative burden. You can read more about the RRMV and its validation here.
- Panel Discussions and Q&A Sessions: The workshop featured interactive panel discussions and Q&A sessions, allowing for a deeper exploration of the topics and audience engagement.
AI for legal drafting
- The second part of the workshop focused on AI's role in drafting legislation, including discussions on tools like Legislation Editing Open Software (LEOS ) and Akoma Ntoso for the European Union (AKN4EU).
- LEOS is an open-source software for legislative drafting that is currently in production in the European Commission and the Spanish Government that facilitate the drafting of legal resources.
- The potential integration of artificial intelligence in legislative drafting was highlighted, focusing on smart functionalities that could be added to platforms like LEOS. This includes features like automatic drafting, error detection, and enhanced search.
- AKN4EU is a common structured format for EU legislative documents, and it is an initiative to standardize European Union legal documents by leveraging a specialization of the Akoma Ntoso XML format. Its goal is to improve access, interoperability, and exchange of legal texts across EU member states, enhancing transparency and efficiency in legal processes.
- The workshop then touched on the challenges of implementing AI in legislative contexts, such as trustworthiness, data security, and the need for agile, adaptable guidelines for AI use.
- It was also discussed the role of large language models, hybrid AI approaches, and the importance of ensuring that AI tools used in the public sector are trustworthy and transparent.
Conclusions
- The transformation of legal texts into machine-consumable resources can enable the development of data space containing legal information, thus enhancing their usage in IT systems.
- The semantic annotation of legal texts is in fact a key component for automatic regulatory compliance and model-driven legislative drafting, and other Law as Code applications.
- The innovative technologies can support legal drafting by enhancing transparency and improving efficiency in the legal process.
- Despite the integration of AI in legal processes, it is key to keep humans in the loop and in control of the legal drafting process.
Slides and recordings of each session are available below:
- Keynote speech by Javier Hernández Díez: recording, presentation
- Digital-Ready Policymaking (DRPM) by Zsofia Sziranyi: recording, presentation
- AI for digital-ready policymaking in Denmark by Doctor Kristoffer Olsen and Professor Thomas Hildebrandt: recording part 1 (Doctor Olsen) and part 2 (Professor Hildebrandt), presentation
- The Semantic Text Analyzer (SeTA) by Vidas Daudaravicius: recording, presentation
- The Study On Regulatory reporTIng Standards (SORTIS) and the Regulatory Reporting Metadata Vocabulary (RRMV) by Cecile Guasch and Professor Monica Palmirani: recording part 1 (Cecile Guasch) and part 2 (Professor Palmirani), presentation
- LEOS and its enablers by Martin Gritsch: recording, presentation
- AKN4EU by Edyta Posel-Czescik: recording, presentation
- Smart functionalities by Doctor Fotis Fitsilis: recording, presentation
- AI for legislative process by Professor Monica Palmirani: recording, presentation
- Trustworthy use of AI by Sven Schade: recording, presentation
- Responsible use of AI in drafting law by Willy Van Puymbroeck: recording, presentation
- The legal data space by Christine Kormann: recording, presentation
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