Today, I attended a meeting of the LA chapter of Women in E-Discovery (WiE) - check out www.womeninediscovery.com. Great organization! If you are a member of the fairer sex, do join! Anyway, I digress. The topic of discussion was term searches vs. context/conceptual searches. After a very productive discussion, it appeared to this participant that our consensus was that whether you choose to pursue a term search or a context/conceptual search of the data depends on the type of case, the amount of data involved, the budget, the timeline and whether you know what you are looking for. The fact is that there is no one solution that fits all cases. Context or conceptual searches don’t necessarily replace term searches. Instead, they are another weapon in the arsenal. No matter which tool you choose; the key is to make an informed decision and QC the results. No tool is flawless.
I am curious, what do you all think about the debate between term searches and context or conceptual tools? Don’t be shy.
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Are you referring to Boolean searches?
Hello Xavier,
Thanks for your post. This post is referring to term list and boolean searches versus context/conceptual searches.
I agree. No tool is flawless. I do hope that they could develop a hybrid approach in order to make discovery procedures a lot easier and less costly.
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