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Is Keyword Searching Dead? Find Out Here: eDiscovery Best Practices
As I fly back from NYC after Legal Tech New York (and after a weekend spent with the wife and kids), I need an easy but interesting topic to write about for Tuesday’s post. This’ll do. :o)
With all of the hype surrounding Technology Assisted Review, many wonder if keyword search still has a place in eDiscovery. Perhaps it does, if it’s conducted properly.
Later this month, you can decide for yourself. On Tuesday, February 28 at 12:00pm CT (1:00pm ET, 10:00 am PT), CloudNine will be conducting a webcast titled Best Practices for eDiscovery Searching via the BrightTALK network.
Our webcast session will cover goals for effective searching, what to consider prior to collecting ESI that will be subject to search, mechanisms for culling prior to searching, mechanisms for improving search recall and precision, challenges to effective searching and recommended best practices for searching and validating your search results to ensure effective search results.
We will cover many of the concepts we’ve covered on this blog over the years, showing you how not to get wild with wildcards, how to cull out email signature logos from review, how to expand the recall of searches to capture additional hits that might be missed due to misspellings or poor quality text, how to effectively conduct name searches to maximize hit retrieval and how to account for noise words in your search results.
We will also use external sites to help us check our proposed wildcard terms for variations to ensure that our term isn’t too broad (or too narrow) and we will use other sites to help us determine how large of a sample size we need for testing our search result set and even generate our sample set for us.
And, finally, we will look at relevant case law regarding the use of search to identify good and bad examples (i.e., what to do and what NOT to do) when performing searches to retrieve potentially responsive ESI and discuss a proper work flow to QC your search results.
Karen DeSouza, the Director of Review Services at CloudNine, and I will conduct this hour long webcast to discuss best practices for effective searching that may just help you decide whether keyword search still has a place in your eDiscovery workflow. Click here to register for the webinar. Hope to see you then!
So, what do you think? Is keyword searching dead? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
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