Hit 2,000 e-discovery requests processed, and the number felt wrong

My firm's review platform logged request 2,000 last Tuesday in Cleveland, and honestly I thought the counter was broken. Everyone talks about quality over quantity, but that number made me realize how much heavy lifting the automated clustering does behind the scenes. I used to doubt the tagging algorithms for complex contract language, but at 2,000, the false positive rate stayed under 3%. Has anyone else hit a milestone that made them flip their opinion on a tool they were skeptical about?

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alice4451d ago

2,000 is a big number, sure, but it sounds like you're grading the tool on a curve. A 3% false positive rate means 60 requests were still garbage. If those were the complex ones you mentioned, that's a lot of manual cleanup that the counter doesn't show. Milestones like this just mean the system didn't crash, not that it's actually good. Give it another 2,000 and see if the rate holds when the contract language gets weird. This reads like you needed a reason to stop doubting it, not like the data changed your mind.