Fall 2011 E-Discovery Reading Group

We will meet each week for a reading group to explore research issues related to E-Discovery. The reading group will meet on Thursdays from 4-5 PM in HBK 4113, which is in the south wing (the "classroom section") of the same building that contains Hornbake Library). We will discuss one paper each week, with the goal of covering a broad range of topics that reflect the research interests of the participants. The expectations for participants in the reading group are:

Attend whenever your schedule allows. Except as noted below (for students who register for credit) there are no minimum participation expectations.
Read the (single) agreed paper before we meet. If your schedule precludes reading the paper, please do not come that week. But you would be amazed at how quickly you can read while on the way to the reading group :-).

Graduate students from any department, and from any university in the Consortium of Universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area with a related research interest may register for this reading group as a one-credit seminar course (INST 718A) with the permission of the instructor. Registered students incur the following additional expectations:

Attend at least 12 meetings of the reading group.
Lead at least one paper discussion.

We will agree on paper to read for each session at least a week or two in advance of the session and we'll add it to this Web page as we do. Someone will need to volunteer to lead the discussion each week, and that person will clearly have a great deal of influence over what we choose to read! So bring your ideas to our first and second meetings, and at the end of the session we'll take a few minutes to plan out the schedule for the semester.

To keep things reasonable, we will resist the inevitable temptation to discuss two papers in a single week -- if a paper you want to suggest is too small for the discussion to fill an hour, just pick a different paper. And if you really do want to discuss two papers, let's use two weeks for that.

Session	Date	Topic	Discussion Leader	Reading(s)	Notes
1	Sep 1	The Scope of E-Discovery	Doug Oard	Jack G. Conrad, E-Discovery Revisited: The Need for Artificial Intelligence Beyond Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 18(4)321-345, 2010. (direct access with library authentication)
2	Sep 8	Visualization for E-Discovery	Sergey Golitsynskiy	Victoria L. Lemieux and Jason R. Baron, Overcoming the Digital Tsunami in E-Discovery: Is Visual Analytics the Answer?, Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, June, 2011.
3	Sep 15	Automating Review for Responsiveness	William Webber	Herbert L. Roitblat, Anne Kershaw and Patrick Oot, Document Categorization in Legal Electronic Discovery: Computer Classification vs. Manual Review, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1)70-80 (2010). (direct access with library authentication)
4	Sep 22	Automating Review for Responsiveness (redux)	Mossaab Bagdouri	Maura R. Grossman and Gordon V. Cormack, Technology-Assisted Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and More Efficient than Exhaustive Manual Review, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, 17(3), 2011.
5	Sep 29	The Legal View of the E-Discovery Task	Jason Baron	David D. Cross and Sanya Sarich Kerksiek, Using electronic search tools and search-methodology experts in e-discovery: a discussion of recent case law and other authorities, Michael D. Berman, Courtney Ingraffia Barton, and Paul W. Grimm (ed.), Managing E-Discovery and ESI: From Pre-Litigation Through Trial, American Bar Association, 2011.	Email William Webber for copy.
6	Oct 6	Working E-Discovery Systems	Earl Wagner	Christopher Hogan, Robert S. Bauer, and Dan Brasil, Automation of legal sensemaking in e-discovery, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 18(4):431-457, 2010. (direct access with library authentication)
7	Oct 13	E-Discovery in Case Law	Jeanine Joiner	Mt. Hawley Insurance Company v. Felman Production, Inc., 271 F.R.D. 125 (May 18, 2010) (direct access with library authentication)	Please email William Webber for copy if you are unable to access from WestLaw.
8	Oct 20	Fundamental Science and Technology	Utpal Garain	Sachindra Joshi, Danish Contractor, Kenney Ng, Prasad M. Deshpande, and Thomas Hampp, Auto-grouping emails for faster eDiscovery, VLDB, Seattle, September 2011.
9	Oct 27	E-discovery on Alternative Document Formats	Levon Mkrtchyan	The Sedona Conference®, The Sedona Conference® Database Principles: Addressing the Preservation & Production of Databases & Database Information in Civil Litigation, 47pp, 2011.
10	Nov 3	Redaction and anonymization	Dave Lewis	Lynette Hirschman and John Aberdeen, Measuring Risk and Information Preservation: Toward New Metrics for De-identification of Clinical Texts, LOUHI, June 2010.
11	Nov 10	Text Classification in E-Discovery	Michael Bloodgood	Gordon V. Cormack and Mona Mojdeh, Machine Learning for Information Retrieval: TREC 2009 Web, Relevance Feedback and Legal Tracks, TREC, 2009.
	Nov 17	TREC (no meeting)
	Nov 24	Thanksgiving (no meeting)
12	Dec 1	Social Network Analysis	David Kirsch	Sinan Aral and Marshall Van Alstyne, The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off, American Journal of Sociology, 2011 (direct access with library authentication).
13	Dec 8	Sampling for Assurance	Dave Doermann	Tom Turner and John Tredennick, Smart Sampling in e-Discovery, Tennesee Bar Journal, October, 2011.	Email William Webber for copy.

Proposed reading

Following are proposed papers for unfilled weeks. Please contact William Webber if you would like to lead the discussion for one of these papers, or if you have other papers to suggest.

Legal commentary

Jason R. Baron et al. (ed.), The Sedona Conference® Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery, The Sedona Conference, 38pp, 2007.
Jason R. Baron, Macyl A. Burke, et al. (ed.), The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Achieving Quality in the E-Discovery Process, The Sedona Conference, 32pp, 2009.

Working e-discovery systems

Caroline Privault, Jackie O'Neill, Victor Ciriza, and Jean-Michael Renders, A new tangible user interface for machine learning document review , Artificial Intelligence and Law, 18(4):459-479, 2010. (direct access with library authentication)
Simon Attfield and Ann Blandford, Discovery-led refinement in e-discovery investigations: sensemaking, cognitive ergonomics and system design, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 18(4):387-412, 2010. (direct access with library authentication)
Hans Henseler, Network-based filtering for large email collections in E-Discovery, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 18(4):413-430, 2010. (direct access with library authentication)

Doug Oard, William Webber

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