ICAIL 2007 Workshop on
Supporting Search and Sensemaking for
Electronically Stored Information
in Discovery
Proceedings
(DESI Workshop)
June 4, 2007, Palo Alto, CA
Overview
Legal applications of search technology have been of longstanding
interest, and indexing techniques for legislation, regulations, and
case law are highly developed. While work on those topics continues,
interest in a new class of digital evidence management applications,
often referred to as "E-Discovery," is increasing rapidly, in part
because electronically stored information (ESI) has become a pervasive
component of many routine commercial and government activities. These
applications raise important new challenges for the legal search
community, including:
- New types of materials, including informal language (e.g., in
instant and text messaging), extreme content diversity (as is common
in email), and nontext applications and new media (e.g., voicemail,
photographs, video).
- Unprecedented requirements for scalable work processes, with
million-document collections, and billion-document collections
likely not too far in the future.
- Management of a complex array of interlocking rights and privileges
(e.g., personal privacy, attorney-client privilege, and executive
privilege in government).
No existing community possesses the expertise to attack these
challenges alone, so our goal is to bring together researchers and
practitioners with relevant expertise to begin crafting a research
agenda to address these new challenges.
Useful Documents
Organizing Committee
Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration
David D. Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland
Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College
Last Update: June 10, 2007