Ipro renamed their conference from Ipro Innovations to the Ipro Tech Show this year. As always, it was held at the Talking Stick Resort in Arizona and it was very well organized. It started with a reception on April 29th that was followed by two days of talks. There were also training days bookending the
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Misleading Metrics and Irrelevant Research (Accuracy and F1)
If one algorithm achieved 98.2% accuracy while another had 98.6% for the same task, would you be surprised to find that the first algorithm required ten times as much document review to reach 75% recall compared to the second algorithm? This article explains why some performance metrics don’t give an accurate view of performance for…
TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, Round 5
The audience was challenged to construct a keyword search query that is more effective than TAR at IG3 West 2018. The procedure was the same as round 4, so I won’t repeat the details here. The audience was small this time and we only got one query submission for each topic. The submission…
Highlights from IG3 West 2018
The IG3 West conference was held by Ing3nious at the Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach, California. This conference differed from other recent Ing3nious events in several ways. It was two days of presentations instead of one. There were three simultaneous panels instead of two. Between panels there were sometimes three simultaneous vendor technology…
Highlights from Text Analytics Forum 2018
Text Analytics Forum is part of KMWorld. It was held on November 7-8 at the JW Marriott in D.C.. Attendees went to the large KMWorld keynotes in the morning and had two parallel text analytics tracks for the remainder of the day. There was a technical track and an applications track. Most of the slides…
Highlights from Text Analytics Forum 2018
Text Analytics Forum is part of KMWorld. It was held on November 7-8 at the JW Marriott in D.C.. Attendees went to the large KMWorld keynotes in the morning and had two parallel text analytics tracks for the remainder of the day. There was a technical track and an applications track. Most of the slides…
Podcast: Can You Do Good TAR with a Bad Algorithm?
Bill Dimm will be speaking with John Tredennick and Tom Gricks on the TAR Talk podcast about his recent article TAR, Proportionality, and Bad Algorithms (1-NN). The podcast will be on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. You can register here or download it later on iTunes or Google Play.
Best Legal Blog Contest 2018
From a field of hundreds of potential nominees, the Clustify Blog received enough nominations to be selected to compete in The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog Contest in the Legal Tech category.
Now that the blogs have been nominated and placed into categories, it is up to readers to select the very best. Each blog…
TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, Round 4
This iteration of the challenge was performed during the Digging into TAR session at the 2018 Northeast eDiscovery & IG Retreat. The structure was similar to round 3, but the audience was bigger. As before, the goal was to see whether the audience could construct a keyword search query that performed better than…
Highlights from the Northeast eDiscovery & IG Retreat 2018
The 2018 Northeast eDiscovery and Information Governance Retreat was held at the Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg, Virginia. It was a full day of talks with a parallel set of talks on Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection in the adjacent room. Attendees could attend talks from either track. Below are my notes (certainly not…