Naoaki Okazaki (editor) - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2020 Workshops, JURISIN, LENLS 2020 Workshops, Virtual Event, November 15–17, 2020, Revised ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12758)

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The twelfth JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (JSAI-isAI 2020) was held during November 1517, 2020. JSAI-isAI has hosted a number of international workshops annually since 2009, providing a unique and intimate forum where AI researchers gather and share their knowledge in a focused discipline. It has been supported by Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the premier academic society of artificial intelligence in Japan (established in 1986).

Initially, JSAI-isAI 2020 was planned to be held at the Campus Innovation Center of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. However, we decided to go entirely virtual in response to the global health crisis caused by COVID-19. Even with this difficult situation, JSAI-isAI 2020 hosted four workshops (JURISIN 2020, LENLS17, SCIDOCA2020, and Kansei-AI 2020) and had 5 invited talks and 57 oral presentations for 198 registered participants from 19 countries.

The fourteenth International Workshop on Juris-Informatics (JURISIN 2020) was organized to discuss legal issues from the perspective of information science. Compared with conventional AI and law, this workshop covers a wide range of topics, including any theories and technologies which are not directly related with juris-informatics but have a potential to contribute to this domain.

The Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 17 (LENLS17) workshop focused on the formal and theoretical aspects of natural language. It is an annual international workshop recognized internationally in the formal syntax-semantics-pragmatics community. It brings together researchers working on formal theories of natural language syntax, semantics and pragmatics, (formal) philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics for discussion and interdisciplinary communication.

The fourth International Workshop on SCIentific DOCument Analysis (SCIDOCA 2020) gathered researchers and experts who are aiming at scientific document analysis. Recent proliferation of scientific papers and technical documents has become an obstacle to efficient information acquisition of new information in various fields. It is almost impossible for individual researchers to check and read all related documents. This workshop hosted technical paper presentations and system demonstrations that cover all aspects of scientific document analysis.

Kansei-AI 2020 was the second international workshop on Artificial Affective (Kansei) Intelligence. The scope of this workshop was science and engineering research related to value judgements made through the five senses, such as image processing, tactile engineering, acoustics, machine learning, sensitivity engineering, and natural language processing.

This volume, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2020 Workshops, is the post-proceedings of JSAI-isAI 2020. From the 50 papers submitted to the workshops of LENLS17 and JURISIN 2020, 19 papers were carefully selected and revised, following the comments of the workshop Program Committees. The acceptance rate was about 38%. This has resulted in an excellent selection of papers that are representative of some of the topics of AI research both in Japan and worldwide.

It is our great pleasure to be able to share some highlights of these fascinating workshops in this volume. We hope this book will introduce readers to the state-of-the-art research outcomes of JSAI-isAI 2020, and motivate them to organize and/or participate in JSAI-isAI events in the future.