Interactive Task of Interactive Task of the the TREC Legal Track: TREC Legal Track: Theory meets Practice Theory meets Practice Douglas W. Oard College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland, College Park rk with Jason Baron (NARA), Bruce Hedin (H5), Stephen Tomlinson (Op Making the world better for lawyers
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Interactive Task of theInteractive Task of theTREC Legal Track:TREC Legal Track:
Theory meets PracticeTheory meets Practice
Douglas W. Oard
College of Information Studies andInstitute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Joint work with Jason Baron (NARA), Bruce Hedin (H5), Stephen Tomlinson (Open Text)
Making the world better for lawyers
E-Discovery
National ArchivesNational Archives
Clinton Clinton White HouseWhite House Tobacco Tobacco
PolicyPolicy
search search requestrequest
hired 25 hired 25 personspersons
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~32 million
emails
200,000
80,000
for 6 months …
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Rule 26(f): At the parties’ planning meeting, issues expected to be discussed include:
– “Any issues relating to disclosure or discovery of electronically stored information, including the form or forms in which it should be produced”
– “Any issues relating to preserving discoverable information”
Judge Grimm, writing for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
“all keyword searches are not created equal; and there is a growing body of literature that highlights the risks associated with conducting an unreliable or inadequate keyword search”
Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc., ---F.Supp.2d---, 2008 WL 2221841, * 3 & n.9 (D. Md. May 29, 2008)
• Justifiable– Quantifiable comparison to present practice
• Affordable– Minimize amount of human review
• Goals– Foster development of research communities– Create “benchmark” evaluation resources– Establish baseline results
• History– Sponsored by NIST since 1992– “Legal Track” started in 2006; E-Discovery focus– Annual evaluation cycle
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)
Evaluation Design
Scanned Docs
Interactive Task
2008 Interactive Task Participants
Clearwell SystemsH5University at BuffaloUniversity of Pittsburgh
4 research teams submitted 7 runs
Each run: YES/NO for all 7 million documentsfor a single production request
“Complaint” and “Production Request”
…12. On January 1, 2002, Echinoderm announced record results for the prior year, primarily attributed to strong demand growth in overseas markets, particularly China, for its products. The announcement also touted the fact that Echinoderm was unique among U.S. tobacco companies in that it had seen no decline in domestic sales during the prior three years.13. Unbeknownst to shareholders at the time of the January 1, 2002 announcement, defendants had failed to disclose the following facts which they knew at the time, or should have known: a. The Company's success in overseas markets resulted in large part from bribes paid to foreign government officials to gain access to their respective markets; b. The Company knew that this conduct was in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and therefore was likely to result in enormous fines and penalties; c. The Company intentionally misrepresented that its success in overseas markets was due to superior marketing. d. Domestic demand for the Company's products was dependent on pervasive and ubiquitous advertising, including outdoor, transit, point of sale and counter top displays of the Company's products, in key markets. Such advertising violated the marketing and advertising restrictions to which the Company was subject as a party to the Attorneys General Master Settlement Agreement ("MSA").e. The Company knew that it could be ordered at any time to cease and desist from advertising practices that were not in compliance with the MSA and that the inability to continue such practices would likely have a material impact on domestic demand for its products. …
All documents which describe, refer to, report on, or mention any “in-store,” “on-counter,” “point of sale,” or other retail marketing campaigns for cigarettes.
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Scanned OCR Metadata
Relevance Assessment
• Volunteer assessors– Mostly from 13 law schools
• Web-based assessment system– Based on document images + metadata
Estimating Retrieval Effectiveness
region in thisrelevant %6764
region in thisrelevant %3331
Everyone Gets High Precision
High OCR-accuracy documents only
PrecisionRelRet / Ret
RecallRelRet / Rel
Rel Ret
Interaction Time Effect
All documents
Takeaway Messages
• Leverage guided interactive refinement– Factor of two in comprehensiveness
• Vibrant research community– 22 research teams in 7 countries
• Unique test collection– Sampling for “recall-oriented” evaluation
Some Useful References • TREC Legal Track
– http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu– Papers at http://trec.nist.gov– Mailing list (contact [email protected])
• DESI-3 Workshop on “Global E-Discovery and E-Disclosure”
– June 8, 2009 in Barcelona– http://www.law.pitt.edu/DESI3_Workshop