By Doug Austin
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In the latest post of the Advanced Discovery blog, Tom O’Connor (who is an industry thought leader and has been a thought leader interviewee on this blog several times) posed an interesting question: Is Keyword Searching Dead?
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In his post, Tom recapped the discussion of a session with the same name at the recent Today’s General Counsel Institute in New York City where Tom was a co-moderator of the session along with Maura Grossman, a recognized Technology Assisted Review (TAR) expert, …
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Doug Austin is the editor and founder of eDiscovery Today and an EDRM Global Advisory Council Leader.
Doug is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous commercial and government clients.
Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers. He has received the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as the Top eDiscovery Author for 2017 and 2018 and a JD Supra Readers Choice Award as a Top Cybersecurity Author for 2019.
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Keyword searching — a scientific art that showcases human intelligence — is very much alive. In the future it’s likely that people will continue to use keyword searching to discover in the cloud what is top of mind. As utilized in connection with electronic discovery (eDiscovery), Doug Austin’s “STARR” approach is a powerful mnemonic for a search process that can entail the use of keyword searching as well as Technology Assisted Review (TAR) tools.rnrnAs an example of the enduring need for keyword searching, at NIST — in the Information Technology Laboratory within the Information Access Division — the Multimodal Information Group is actively researching and developing measurement and evaluation methods to: rn
rnrnAt NIST a current evaluation series is Open Keyword Search Evaluation (OpenKWS). OpenKWS is a multi-year effort to test KWS systems on a new “Surprise” language each year. OpenKWS15 is currently accepting signups for the evaluation. rnrnNote, this comment by Marcus Ledergerber is provided for informational purposes only and it is not to be construed as legal advice on any subject matter.