WoLDE26 – Workshop on Legal Document Engineering
The iCoSys team (HEIA-FR) is organizing the Workshop on Legal Document Engineering alongside the ACM DocEng 2026 conference, taking place in August 28, 2026.
Organized by Aixiu An, Andreas Fischer, Mark Drenhaus and Sébastien Rumley.
The context
This workshop is among the first to focus specifically on document analysis within the legal domain. It brings together researchers, practitioners, legal tech startups, and industry professionals working at the intersection of document engineering and legal AI, to discuss methods, datasets, infrastructures, and real-world applications for processing and understanding legal documents.
The workshop
WoLDE26 addresses this gap through three types of contributions:
• Peer-reviewed short papers – deadline: July 5, 2026, acceptance notification: July 18, 2026 • Industrial and work-in-progress presentations – deadline: July 13, 2026, acceptance notification: July 18, 2026 • Invited talks covering emerging methods such as lightweight LLMs, agentic systems, and their integration into real-world legal workflows
Topics include legal document parsing, information extraction, multilingual processing, knowledge graphs, evaluation benchmarks, explainability, and document automation.
Attendance
Workshop attendance is included in the full DocEng 2026 conference registration. A Tutorials & Workshop Only registration ($100) is also available – see the Registration page (Early-bird registration closes July 31).
Technical Programme Committee
- Anna Scius-Bertrand – University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Mark Cieliebak – ZHAW, Switzerland
- Jean Hennebert – HES-SO, Switzerland
- Apollo Dauag – University of Basel, Switzerland
- Elliott Ash – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Tilmann Altwicker – University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Marcel Gygli – Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Jakob Merane – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Contact
For questions about the workshop, please contact the organizers at docengsymposium@gmail.com.