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evidence.for.keywords..Often.the.people.tasked.with.review-
ing.and.producing.the.relevant.data.will.begin.by.establish-
ing. a. set. of. words. or. phrases. related. to. the. case. at. hand..
Automated. systems. or. applications. or. even. command. lines.
can.be.used.to.search.through.large.sets.of.electronic.data.for.
“hits”.on.these.keywords..Those.hits.offer.the.worker.a.irst.
hint.as.to.which.of.the.data.in.question.might.actually.con-
tain.relevant.information..However,.keyword.searches.do.not.
always.do.a.thorough.job.of.inding.all.relevant.data..Words.in.
documents.might.have.been.spelled.incorrectly.or.somehow.
corrupted. so. that. those. relevant. pieces. of. information. are.
missed..Or.the.keywords.you.are.using.might.simply.not.be.
suficient.to.ind.all.of.the.important.data.
Keyword.searches.can.be.an.important.irst.step,.but.they.
are. not. the. be-all. and. end-all. that. some. organizations. con-
sider. them. to. be,. and. courts. and. auditors. may. demand. a.
more.thorough.review.of.preserved.electronic.information.to.
ind.all.possibly.relevant.evidence.
In. fact,. in. a. recent. case. opinion. by. Magistrate. Judge.
Andrew.Peck.of.the.South.District.of.New.York,.he.approves.
the. use. of. “computer-assisted”. review. of. evidence. and. dis-
cusses.the.beneits.that.can.be.derived.from.these.relatively.
new. artiicial. intelligence. technologies.
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. These. tools. allow.
legal.professionals.to.train.the.application.to.search.for.and.
discover. relevant. electronic. evidence. much. more. eficiently.
than.a.simple.keyword.search.
The. searchers. will. also. need. to. look. for. and. catego-
rize. any. evidence. that. would. be. considered. privileged. or.
attorney. work. product. and. remove. that. from. the. produc-
ible.information.
Once. all. of. that. has. been. accomplished,. the. paralegals.
or. attorneys. will. organize. the. producible. data. into. catego-
ries.and.groups.based.on.the.facts.and.issues.in.the.case,.or.
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http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2012/02/articles/case-summaries/magis-
trate-judge-peck-issues-written-opinion-addressing-computerassisted-review/..
Retrieved.2012-03-18.
