David Graus, PhD Candidate Semantic Search in E-Discovery

Semantic Search in E-Discovery: An Interdisciplinary Approach

23 May 13 in publications, views: 4, permalink

Title	Semantic Search in E-Discovery: An Interdisciplinary Approach [link]
Author	Graus, D.P., Ren, Z., van Dijk, D., van der Knaap, N., de Rijke, M. & Henseler, H.
Publication type	Workshop Proceedings
Workshop name	Workshop on Standards for Using Predictive Coding, Machine Learning, and Other Advanced Search and Review Methods in E-Discovery (DESI V Workshop)
Conference name	ICAIL 2013
Conference location	Rome, Italy
Abstract	We propose an interdisciplinary approach to applying and evaluating semantic search in the e-discovery setting. By combining expertise from the ﬁelds of law and criminology with that of information retrieval and extraction, we move beyond “algorithm-centric” evaluation, towards evaluating the impact of semantic search in real search settings. We will approach this by collaboration in an interdisciplinary group of four PhD candidates, applying an iterative two-phase work cycle to four subprojects that run in parallel. The ﬁrst phase we work individually. We determine the use and needs of search in e-discovery (subproject 1), and simultaneously explore and develop state-of-the-art semantic search approaches (subprojects 2–4). In the second phase we collaborate, designing user experiments to evaluate how and where semantic search can support the analysts’ search process. By repeating this cycle multiple times we gain speciﬁc and in-depth knowledge and propose solutions to speciﬁc challenges in search in e-discovery
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