Title :
Adapting to the data explosion: Ensuring justice for all
Author :
Brickell, Julia L. ; Langer, Arthur M.
Author_Institution :
Technol. Manage., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
The age of electronic information will continue to engender a technological evolution to which the efforts of human beings will have to adjust. In the legal realm in the United States, the time and costs associated with meeting a party´s obligations to search and turn over relevant electronic data for litigation threatens to drive litigants out of the courts. There is now judicial recognition that technological tools, especially for automated search, will have to play a role in case discovery, which used to be handled by humans alone. Improved understanding of human-machine interplay is of growing importance to provide effective, and cost effective, information retrieval in this litigation context. Pairing technology and human expertise in a sophisticated way can provide benefits not possible when either is used on its own.
Keywords :
data handling; law administration; query formulation; United States; automated search; case discovery; data explosion; electronic information; litigation; Costs; Cybernetics; Explosions; Humans; Information retrieval; Law; Legal factors; Man machine systems; Technology management; USA Councils; human-machine cooperation and systems; information retrieval; legal factors; search methods;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2793-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1062-922X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346739