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To appear in the proceedings of SIGIR 2014: The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Abstract: Using a novel evaluation toolkit that simulates a human reviewer in the loop, we compare the effectiveness of three machine-learning protocols for technology-assisted review as used in document review for discovery in legal proceedings. Our comparison addresses a central question in the deployment of technology-assisted review: Should training documents be selected at random, or should they be selected using one or more non-random methods, such as keyword search or active learning? On eight review tasks — four derived from the TREC […]