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An article by Jason Krause in the eDiscovery Daily Blog.
This article is an interview of attorney Jason R. Baron regarding his thoughts on records management and eDiscovery issues. A series of questions is posed to Mr. Baron, and he provides his insight into various issues regarding information governance.
One of the issues discussed is the TREC legal track research project. Mr. Baron is quoted as saying, "...we have a much better understanding now of what a good search process looks like, which includes a human in the loop (known in the Legal Track as a topic authority) evaluating on an ongoing, iterative basis what automated search software kicks out by way of initial results. The biggest achievement however may simply be the continued existence of the TREC Legal Track itself, still going in its 6th year in 2011, and still producing important research results, on an open, non-proprietary platform, that are fully reproducible and that benefit both the legal profession as well as the information retrieval academic world."
The article further quotes Mr. Baron, "The TREC Legal Track results I am most familiar with through calendar year 2010 have shown computer-assisted review methods finding in some cases on the order of 85% of relevant documents (a .85 recall rate) per topic while only producing 10% false positives (a .90 precision rate). Not all search methods have had these results, and there has been in fact a wide variance in success achieved, but these returns are very promising when compared with historically lower rates of recall and precision across many information retrieval studies." Various articles supporting the claim that technology enhanced review produces better results than a traditional linear review by attorneys are referenced in the article, and links to those items are provided. Further discussion is also provided regarding attempts to provide standards and establish eDiscovery best practices industry-wide.
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