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David Graus @graus.nu · 06/05/2026

Two papers by my students (BSc + PhD) have been accepted at the AI & Open Government Workshop (@aiog.net), co-located with ICAIL 2026 in Singapore on 8 June. One on VLMs for #OpenGov document understanding tasks, and one on LLMs for classifying deliberative process privilege. 🧵

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Open Government Partnership @opengovpartnership.org · 24/04/2026

During #OpenGovWeek, join the OGP Local Circle on Digital Governance and AI. 📅 19 May 2026 🕒 2:00–3:30 PM UTC City leaders will discuss AI, digital transformation and trust in government. Coordinated by Buenos Aires and Bogotá. 🔗 bit.ly/ogp-ai-may19 #OpenGovWeek #AI

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David Graus @graus.nu · 09/04/2026

🎉 Full paper accepted at #ICAIL2026! This paper studies LLMs and representation for generating executable decision models from legal text w/ the Dutch Environment and Planning Portal (DSO) as case study, as it pairs complex hand-crafted decision models with legal articles. There's 2 main findings! 🧵

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 08/04/2026

Submit a paper to the 1st AI & #OpenGov workshop at #ICAIL2026. I know we will! One more week left. Details below 👇

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AI & Open Government Workshop @ ICAIL 2026 @aiog.net · 20/03/2026

2nd #CfP: 1st AI & #OpenGov Workshop at #ICAIL2026! Papers due April 9, 2026 (about 3 weeks!). We invite submissions of: Research papers (3-9 pages + refs): original research contributions and Position papers (up to 5 pages + refs): insights from practice. Full CFP Below 👇 aiog.net/cfp/

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AI & Open Government Workshop @ ICAIL 2026 @aiog.net · 09/02/2026

📢 Call for Papers: AI & Open Government Workshop @ ICAIL 2026 We invite research papers (3–9 pages) and position papers (up to 5 pages) on #AI for government transparency, #FOIA, public records access, and more. 📅 Paper deadline: April 9, 2026 📍 Singapore, June 8, 2026 (hybrid) 🔗 aiog.net/cfp/

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Call for Papers | AI & Open Government Workshop @ ICAIL 2026

Using AI and LLMs to Advance Open Government and Public Disclosure Laws Worldwide

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 09/02/2026

#WooGLe got a small makeover! 🔍 We've updated the dossier and document list pages with a refreshed design, plus a lot of behind-the-scenes improvements for easier maintenance and future updates. More changes (including the search interface) coming soon! Found a bug? Reach out! (images: before/after)

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 09/01/2026

The tally for 2025 is done! We've gone from 4 to over 8 million documents indexed, from nearly 800 government bodies in WooGLe: our OpenGov search engine! Read more about what we added, and our plans for 2026! opengov.nl/blog/2026/01... #opengov #opendata @maiklarooij.nl

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WooGLe keeps growing: 8 million documents! - ICAI OpenGov Lab - opengov.nl

WooGLe has doubled in size in 2025, now indexing over **8 million documents** across more than 90,000 dossiers from nearly 800 government bodies

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 09/01/2026

Our lab manager @graus.nu is co-organizing the "AI and Open Government Workshop" at the 21st International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL 2026), in Singapore 🇸🇬, June 8-12. 🔗 For more information, see: aiog.net / @aiog.net #AI #OpenGov #FOIA #Law

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David Graus @graus.nu · 16/12/2025

Woohoo! Paper accepted to Findings at @ecir2026.eu! 🎉 We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹 Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 17/11/2025

Congrats to Barbora Wenzlova for receiving the Victorine van Schaick Prize 2025 for her master thesis “Beyond Disclosure: Evaluating Algorithmic Transparency in the Dutch Algorithm Register”, supervised by @jkamps.bsky.social at the @opengov.nl lab: www.opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 06/11/2025

We joined the “Terminal Woo” hackathon at the Fokker Terminal with @opengov.nl; pitching an IR-inspired fix for a real problem in Dutch FOIA (Woo) search.

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 03/11/2025

We attended the @uva.nl thesis fairs! Read @maiklarooij.nl's writeup on @opengov.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 13/10/2025

Students @uva.nl in #AI, #datascience, and computer science: come meet us at the (AI) Thesis Fairs this Friday, October 17th and talk about our #OpenGov MSc thesis projects! opengov.nl/events/2025/...

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 26/09/2025

Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.” Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 12/09/2025

Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 01/09/2025

Are you a final year master student in AI/Data Science in the greater Amsterdam area? Join us at the ICAI OpenGov Lab for your master thesis. Data and ideas abound! See a preliminary list of projects below or reach out with your own 👇🏻

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David Graus @graus.nu · 19/06/2025

Volgende week vrijdag organiseren we onze jaarlijkse @opengov.nl Woorkshop. Waar een ~20-tal #AI, #DataScience, en Informatiekunde studenten die “wat spannends doen met de Woo” hun scripties presenteren! 13-17 uur, LAB42 in Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom! wooverheid.nl/2025/06/18/u...

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UvA opengov ICAI lab Woorkshop 2025

27 juni 2025, 13:00, Lab 42, Zaal L.101, Science Park, Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom Elk jaar hebben Jaap Kamps, David Graus en Maarten Marx wel zo’n 20 afstudeerders die “wat span…

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 29/05/2025

News @uva.nl: “Many of the advances in IR and NLP can be directly applied to improving access and use of open government data,” says lab manager @graus.nu. “I believe these technologies can truly help create a more transparent government and a better-informed society.” www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

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New AI Lab Makes Open Government Information Easier to Find and Understand

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Government of the Netherlands (Rijksoverheid) have jointly launched the ICAI OpenGov Lab, a new AI research lab focused on Information Retrieval (IR) and Natu...

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 08/05/2025

Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...

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David Graus @graus.nu · 07/05/2025

Super excited about getting started! Follow @opengov.nl to stay tuned for our first papers and more. #OpenGov

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 07/05/2025

The ICAI OpenGov Lab is live! We kicked off yesterday at LAB42 (UvA, Amsterdam). Our PhD candidates shared exciting research plans on AI, archives & disinfo, with valuable input from our partners at informatiehuishouding + ipartnerschap. More soon, follow us for updates! #opengov #AI #NLP

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 01/05/2025

Happy birthday Woo (Wet Open Overheid - Dutch Open Government Act), since May 1st, 2022. 🕯️🕯️🕯️

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 25/04/2025

Today, @anneschuth.nl (Rijks ICT Gilde) visited the @opengov.nl lab before his talk at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social (www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...), to explore collaboration with our PhD students Damiaan and Lisa, and catch up with @graus.nu and @jkamps.bsky.social. Great having you around, Anne!

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 22/04/2025

🚨 Q1 results from the ICAI OpenGov Lab (@opengov.nl) are out! See a few highlights in the 🧵 below. For all details, see the blo post on wooverheid (🇳🇱): wooverheid.nl/2025/04/21/2...

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2025 Q1 Opengov lab resultaten

Hieronder een overzicht van de behaalde resultaten van het opengov ICAI lab in het eerste kwartaal van 2025. Woogle, informatieregister In 2024 weer verdubbeld in grootte, nu 3.4 miljoen dossi…

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David Graus @graus.nu · 10/04/2025

Damiaan, PhD student at the @opengov.nl Lab presented his pitch at the 2nd Search Futures Workshop (searchfutures.github.io) at #ECIR2025 on document representation using legal contextual information, flanked by He who sacrificed Himself for our sins. Great workshop so far!

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 27/03/2025

The ACOI recently commissioned a report with Utrecht University on what meaningful government transparency should look like: active disclosure that actually meets the information needs of citizens. 👉 www.acoi.nl/actueel/nieu... 1/5 🧵

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 18/03/2025

Our scientific co-director Maarten Marx co-authored an analysis of FOI request handling in the Netherlands in 2024, w/ @openstate.eu and Instituut Maatschappelijke Innovatie (IMI). Download the report (Dutch, PDF) here: openstate.eu/wp-content/u... Some points of interest in the thread below 🧵 1/3

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The best way to celebrate #SunshineWeek on National Freedom of Information Day is to learn how to use the Freedom of Information Act & then use the FOIA to request info from our government: FOIA.gov FOIA Comic by @washingtonpost.com @foianate.bsky.social via @sunshineweek.bsky.social #opengov

Comic: HOW TO FOIA
Here's how to do it!

Revealing Records: How to FOIA
Perspective by Nate Jones. Illustrations by Emily Joynton. Editing by Sarah Childress, Jenna Pirog and Hannah Good.
Art direction by Hannah Good and Marissa Vonesh. Design editing by Christian Font. Copy editing by Jordan Melendrez.

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David Graus @graus.nu · 08/03/2025

Our @opengov.nl lab is on Bluesky!

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ICAI OpenGov Lab @opengov.nl · 08/03/2025

Hello world! We are the ICAI OpenGov Lab, an Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence set up between the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid) and @uva.nl 👋🏻

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