March 20, 2012
Dave Lewis, PhD
David D. Lewis Consulting
The Role of Statistics in Electronic Discovery
Noon - 1:30 PM
The East Bank Club
500 N. Kingsbury, Chicago 60610
Abstract:
Changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in December 2006 led to an explosion in the amount of electronically stored information that needs to found and turned over in civil litigation in the United States. Traditional manual review approaches (rooms full of lawyers reading paper documents) have collapsed under this burden, spawning a multi-billion dollar electronic discovery (e-discovery) software and services industry.
I will discuss two major roles that statistical techniques play in this new industry. First, statistical information retrieval techniques such as supervised learning of text classifiers have seen intense interest for their potential to reduce human effort and cost. Second, random sampling and statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of the review process, regardless of how it is carried out, are increasingly playing a role in legal cases. Among other things, I will discuss results from cooperative evaluation efforts, in particular the National Institute of Standards TREC Legal Track.
Biography:
David D. Lewis, Ph.D. (www.DavidDLewis.com) is a Chicago-based consulting computer scientist working in the areas of information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, and the evaluation of complex information systems. He formerly held research positions at AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, and the University of Chicago. He has published more than 75 scientific papers and 8 patents, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006. He has consulted to e-discovery software and services companies, and has served as a consulting expert and expert witness in US Federal Court cases.
Lunch is $30 for CCASA members, $35 for non-members. Non-members, join the chapter for a year for only $15 and get the discount plus all of the other benefits of membership! As usual, the Lucile Derrick Fund will purchase a limited number of tickets for students who wish to attend. If you are a student and would like to take advantage of this offer, please register online below, and contact Gerald Funk, expressing your interest 708-957-1923 or gfunk@luc.edu
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