ICAIL 2007 Workshop on Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings (DESI Workshop) June 4, 2007 Stanford, CA http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/desi-ws/ 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. Participation is invited from all interested parties, including those with backgrounds in: - Archives and records management - Computational linguistics - Digital evidence management - Human-computer interaction - Human information behavior - Information retrieval - Information security - Legal informatics - Litigation support Submissions: Two types of written contributions are invited: - Original papers describing research or practice, which may be selected for oral or poster presentation. Research papers should not exceed 10 pages in length, and shorter papers are welcomed (no minimum length is specified). Accepted papers will be included in the working notes of the workshop that will be distributed in print to participants and posted on the Web. - Brief (typically 1-2 page) position papers describing individual interests, for inclusion (without review) in the working notes and on the web site. Brief descriptions of this type are particularly valuable when bringing together diverse research communities. Additionally, these papers can help with our selection of discussants, lunch table discussion leaders, and panelists. Participation in the workshop is open, so prior submission of position papers, while strongly encouraged, is not strictly required. Important Dates (all 2007): [Submission date extended] May 10 Research paper submissions due (to jason.baron@nara.gov) May 10 Position paper submissions due May 14 Notification for research papers May 21 Camera ready version of accepted research papers due June 4 DESI Workshop June 5-7 ICAIL conference 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 Additional information: Additional background and details on planned activities is available on the workshop's Web page at http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/desi-ws/ Requests for information should be addressed to jason.baron@nara.gov