【AI Seminar】2026.11.03「From Cultural Archives to Judicial Reasoning: Structuring Text and Norms across Digital Humanities and Legal Informatics」-Prof. Chao-Lin Liu, NCCU College of Informatics
1. Speaker: Prof. Chao-Lin Liu, NCCU College of Informatics
2. Date & Time: Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 13:00-15:00
3. Venue: AI Lecture Hall,11th Floor-Management Building
4. Meeting Link: https://reurl.cc/QNl3rM
About the Speaker:
Professor Chao-Lin Liu is currently a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer
Science, National Chengchi University. His research interests include natural language
processing, cognitive processes, automated reasoning, machine learning theory, information
retrieval, knowledge management systems, digital humanities, legal informatics, intelligent
tutoring systems, intelligent transportation systems, decision support, and planning and
diagnostic systems.
He has served as Vice Dean of the College of Science, Vice Dean of the College of Informatics,
and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at National Chengchi University. He has
also held academic service positions, including President of the Taiwan Digital Humanities
Society. Professor Liu has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Harvard
University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is committed to advancing
academic research and social development through computational technologies and artificial
intelligence.
Lecture Abstract:
Generic statistical language models and unstructured text embeddings often struggle when
applied to specialized Chinese corpora, where meaning is strictly governed by historical
conventions or institutional norms. This talk presents an interdisciplinary journey across two
distinct applications of computational semantics: discovering latent patterns in historical
culture and enabling explainable decision-making in modern jurisprudence.
The first half of the presentation focuses on digital humanities, demonstrating how
computational methods overcome unpunctuated and irregular classical formats. We examine
how linguistic heuristics and structural parallelism resolve classical poetry word
segmentation, how large-scale alignment reveals diachronic stylometric patterns and text
reuse across 2,000 years of poetic collections, and how language models and Conditional
Random Fields extract prosopographical knowledge and demarcate biographical entries from
historical local gazetteers (Difangzhi).
The second half turns to legal informatics, exploring how domain priors transform unstructured
prosecutorial and judicial documents into transparent, interpretable outputs. We demonstrate
how statutory article co-citation networks establish objective case similarity in civil disputes;
how deconstructing criminal fraud indictments into statutory constitutive elements yields
explainable case analogies aligned with professional legal judgment; how structured prompt
frameworks guide large language models through multi-cause concurrence and penalty
comparisons; and how procedural trajectories can quantify case disputability and litigation
risk. Together, these case studies demonstrate that computational semantics achieves its
highest reliability not by treating language as generic token distributions, but by formalizing the
structural and normative logic of the target domain.