Extended Deadline + Final Call for Papers: AI & Open Government Workshop @ ICAIL 2026
Graham McDonald <00016e090aba4cb0-dmarc-request-fDUS8cNZx2jrfANEuwkQdg@public.gmane.org> Wed, 8 Apr 2026 08:27:05 +0000
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--_000_CWLP302MB0037D0DF54B6B7B10669DBF1BC5BACWLP302MB0037GBRP_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Extended Deadline + Final CFP] The 1st AI & Open Government (AIOG) Workshop @ ICAIL 2026 (hybrid) Workshop co-located at the 21st International Conference on Artificial Inte= lligence and Law (ICAIL 2026), Singapore, June 8, 2026 New extended submission deadline: April 16 2026, AoE. Full CFP: https://aiog.net/cfp/ The 1st AI & Open Government workshop (AIOG) focuses on how modern AI-tools= and techniques, including Large Language Models (LLMs), can support govern= ment accountability and transparency by improving public access to governme= nt records and enabling more reliable and compliant disclosure processes. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 20, 2026 * Workshop date: June 8, 2026 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time. Workshop scope In many jurisdictions, open government and access to information laws such = as Freedom of Information (FOIA) and Access to Information (ATI) require la= rge-scale public disclosure of government records, resulting in massive, mu= ltimodal data collections whose complexity increasingly challenges both leg= al compliance and technical processing. At the same time, governments face = strict legal obligations to disclose information within statutory deadlines= , while protecting sensitive and personal information. The workshop addresses two key perspectives: * AI for citizens: Tools and techniques for improving search, explorati= on, and understanding of public government information * AI for governments: Assisting in accessibility, pre-processing, metad= ata enrichment, retrieval, filtering, and protecting sensitive information = consistent with public disclosure laws Topics of Interest Topics include, but are not limited to: * AI-augmented search, retrieval, and summarization for public records * Technology-assisted review for FOIA and records access requests * Automated sensitivity review and redaction under FOIA/GDPR * Metadata enrichment and entity extraction for government record disco= very * Multimodal processing of scans, PDFs, and legacy document formats in = public archives * Agentic AI for FOIA request triage and handling * Public-facing tools for navigating heterogeneous government data repo= sitories * Formalising legal standards for disclosure, exemptions, and harm in A= I-assisted access workflows * Governance, auditability, and explainability of AI-assisted disclosur= e, including human-in-the-loop review * Automated classification for government records retention * Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and generative AI = for public government records and cultural heritage archives * AI-assisted declassification of government records for public release We invite submissions of: * Research papers (3-9 pages + references): original research contribut= ions * Position papers (up to 5 pages + references): insights from practice Paper must be formatted using the ACM sigconf template (for LaTeX) or the i= nterim template layout.docx (for Word), both at http://www.acm.org/publicat= ions/proceedings-template. Papers should be submitted via the submission po= rtal at https://submit.aiog.net<https://submit.aiog.net/>. Reviewing will b= e double-blind, i.e., papers submitted for review must not include names an= d affiliations of the authors. Accepted papers will be published in OpenRev= iew proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present thei= r work in person in Singapore. Workshop Organizers =95 @David Graus<https://acmsigir.slack.com/team/U0909ACE44V>, University o= f Amsterdam & ICAI OpenGov Lab =95 @Graham McDonald<https://acmsigir.slack.com/team/U027HRL2ASZ>, Universi= ty of Glasgow =95 Jason R. Baron, University of Maryland ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the IR list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=3DIR&A=3D1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/IR, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ --_000_CWLP302MB0037D0DF54B6B7B10669DBF1BC5BACWLP302MB0037GBRP_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> </head> <body> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[Extende= d Deadline + Final CFP] </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 1st = AI & Open Government (AIOG) Workshop @ ICAIL 2026 (hybrid) </span>= </p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Workshop= co-located at the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence= and Law (ICAIL 2026), Singapore, June 8, 2026</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">New exte= nded submission deadline: April 16 2026, AoE.</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Full CFP= : <a href=3D"https://aiog.net/cfp/" data-outlook-id=3D"23eeea5a-d656-4eaf-a1f= 9-8262961c72e0" style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> https://aiog.net/cfp/</a></span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 1st = AI & Open Government workshop (AIOG) focuses on how modern AI-tools and= techniques, including Large Language Models (LLMs), can support government accountability and transparency by improving public= access to government records and enabling more reliable and compliant disc= losure processes.</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Importan= t Dates</span></p> <ul style=3D"list-style-type: disc;"> <li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2026</li><li style=3D"font-family: &qu= ot;Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height:= normal; margin: 0px;"> Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2026</li><li style=3D"font-family: "= ;Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: n= ormal; margin: 0px;"> Camera-ready deadline: May 20, 2026</li><li style=3D"font-family: "Hel= vetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: norma= l; margin: 0px;"> Workshop date: June 8, 2026</li></ul> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All dead= lines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Workshop= scope</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In many = jurisdictions, open government and access to information laws such as Freed= om of Information (FOIA) and Access to Information (ATI) require large-scale public disclosure of government records, resulti= ng in massive, multimodal data collections whose complexity increasingly ch= allenges both legal compliance and technical processing. At the same time, = governments face strict legal obligations to disclose information within statutory deadlines, while protecting sensi= tive and personal information.</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The work= shop addresses two key perspectives:</span></p> <ul style=3D"list-style-type: disc;"> <li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> AI for citizens: Tools and techniques for improving search, exploration, an= d understanding of public government information</li><li style=3D"font-fami= ly: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-= height: normal; margin: 0px;"> AI for governments: Assisting in accessibility, pre-processing, metadata en= richment, retrieval, filtering, and protecting sensitive information consis= tent with public disclosure laws</li></ul> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Topics o= f Interest</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Topics i= nclude, but are not limited to:</span></p> <ul style=3D"list-style-type: disc;"> <li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> AI-augmented search, retrieval, and summarization for public records</li><l= i style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color:= rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Technology-assisted review for FOIA and records access requests</li><li sty= le=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(= 0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Automated sensitivity review and redaction under FOIA/GDPR</li><li style=3D= "font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0,= 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Metadata enrichment and entity extraction for government record discovery</= li><li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Multimodal processing of scans, PDFs, and legacy document formats in public= archives</li><li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-si= ze: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Agentic AI for FOIA request triage and handling</li><li style=3D"font-famil= y: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-h= eight: normal; margin: 0px;"> Public-facing tools for navigating heterogeneous government data repositori= es</li><li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13p= x; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Formalising legal standards for disclosure, exemptions, and harm in AI-assi= sted access workflows</li><li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue&qu= ot;; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px= ;"> Governance, auditability, and explainability of AI-assisted disclosure, inc= luding human-in-the-loop review</li><li style=3D"font-family: "Helveti= ca Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; m= argin: 0px;"> Automated classification for government records retention</li><li style=3D"= font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and generative AI for pu= blic government records and cultural heritage archives</li><li style=3D"fon= t-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);= line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> AI-assisted declassification of government records for public release</li><= /ul> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We invit= e submissions of:</span></p> <ul style=3D"list-style-type: disc;"> <li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; colo= r: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Research papers (3-9 pages + references): original research contributions</= li><li style=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Position papers (up to 5 pages + references): insights from practice</li></= ul> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Paper mu= st be formatted using the ACM sigconf template (for LaTeX) or the interim t= emplate layout.docx (for Word), both at <a href=3D"http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" data-outlo= ok-id=3D"a1ca23eb-e484-4f49-9126-ee01d00c96d1" style=3D"margin-top: 0px; ma= rgin-bottom: 0px;"> http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a>. Papers should be = submitted via the submission portal at <a href=3D"https://submit.aiog.net/" data-outlook-id=3D"b8ffe60d-2363-4b78-= b861-c03cd29b1ed3" style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> https://submit.aiog.net</a>. Reviewing will be double-blind, i.e., papers s= ubmitted for review must not include names and affiliations of the authors.= Accepted papers will be published in OpenReview proceedings. Authors of ac= cepted papers will be invited to present their work in person in Singapore.</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span styl= e=3D"font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0= , 0, 0);"><br> </span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Workshop= Organizers</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">=95 <a href=3D"https://acmsigir.slack.com/team/U0909ACE44V" data-outlook-id=3D"= 4a608330-4dc6-4f81-9e32-4c61ad8919af" style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px;"> @David Graus</a>, University of Amsterdam & ICAI OpenGov Lab</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">=95 <a href=3D"https://acmsigir.slack.com/team/U027HRL2ASZ" data-outlook-id=3D"= 0ecd00c0-352a-47ca-8ed2-fa309b3c90e7" style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px;"> @Graham McDonald</a>, University of Glasgow</span></p> <p style=3D"line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">=95 Jaso= n R. Baron, University of Maryland</span></p> <div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-se= rif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> </body> </html> <br> <hr> <p align=3D"center">To unsubscribe from the IR list, click the following link:<br> <a href=3D"https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=3DIR&A=3D1" target=3D"_blank">https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=3DIR&A=3D1</a> </p> --_000_CWLP302MB0037D0DF54B6B7B10669DBF1BC5BACWLP302MB0037GBRP_--