Tag Archives: concept search
Judge Peck approves computer-assisted review for use in “appropriate cases”
Those of us in eDiscovery interested in whether (or when) computer-assisted review (in this case, “predictive coding”) would gain judicial acceptance as a defensible means of conducting large-scale document reviews should read – and read carefully – Magistrate Judge Andrew … Continue reading
Assessing and Improving Poor Quality OCR
Anyone who has ever had to work with scanned documents knows that you can never really trust your search results. What does it mean that x documents were “not responsive” to your search? How many of these are true negatives … Continue reading
Software-assisted document review: An ROI your GC can appreciate
Our colleagues in the US just published a whitepaper on software-assisted document review [pdf] which looks at the return-on-investment of newly available technologies and methodologies. It demonstrates, through three case studies, how standard human review compares (unfavorably) to software-assisted approaches. As … Continue reading
Artificial intelligence, applied linguistics and eDiscovery
A very interesting article by the New York Times (Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software (mobile)) offers a glimpse of eDiscovery’s near future: Now, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, “e-discovery” software can analyze documents in a fraction of the … Continue reading
