Topic
Information Retrieval
16 published works
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Two New Features Make LexBlog Content More Findable, Shareable and Citable
We just shipped two features that work at different layers but serve the same goal: making every piece of content in the LexBlog Library easier to find, easier to reference…
HealthBlawg
Shannon West, Chief Data Officer at Datavant, Giving Patients What They Want — Harlow on Healthcare
By David Harlow
Join me as I speak with Shannon West, Chief Data Officer at Datavant, which is moving from printing and mailing 70 million pages of medical records annually to secure online…
ComplexDiscovery
Missing Something? Topic Modeling in eDiscovery
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: As an author, contributor, and speaker on eDiscovery, Herbert Roitblat is a technology entrepreneur, inventor, and expert who needs no introduction to serious professionals in the eDiscovery ecosystem.…
ComplexDiscovery
Fair and Balanced Search? New NIST Initiative Addresses Information Retrieval Bias
By Rob Robinson
News Announcement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) To Measure Bias in Data, NIST Initiates ‘Fair Ranking’ Research Effort New initiative has long-term goal of making search…
E-Discovery Search Blog
Old but Still Unsolved Search Challenges: Dr. Jeremy Pickens, OpenText + Catalyst Chief Data Scientist, Wins ECIR 2019 Industry Day Best Presentation Award
By nhall
Information retrieval is the science of searching for (and finding) information relevant to a user need. The most common, most visible application of information retrieval science is found in modern…
E-Discovery Search Blog
TAR 2.0: Using Contextual Diversity to Find Out What You Don’t Know (and a Bit About Zipf’s Law)
In the early technology assisted review (TAR 1.0) era, many thought training with randomly selected documents was important to the success of a TAR review. The fear was that attorneys…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
FAFSA Data Retrieval Tool Remains Down Over Security Concerns
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Federal Student Aid (FSA) announced that the Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) on fafsa.gov and StudentLoans.gov will be unavailable until extra security protections…
The Ethical Investigator
The First Mistake was Calling it a Science
By Philip Segal
There is a sad piece in the Wall Street Journal today about the demise of librarians and university programs in library science, In the Age of Google, Librarians Get Shelved.…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Why You Can't Find Anything At Work
By Ryan McClead
Back in the wild cyber-space days of the early 1990s the metaphors we used to describe our online tools were thrilling. We used web-browsers called Navigator or Explorer, we found…
informed.JD
ChaCha: A Ref Desk in Your Pocket? Not quite.
By John DiGilio
ChaCha says it wants to be your mobile BFF. The question is whether your are ready to cozy up to this intriguing mobile resource. ChaCha is a web / mobile service designed…