![]() “E-discovery” again becomes two words, “e” and “discovery.” That’s not the only phrase that can be impacted by the search technology, either. ![]() In the default mode, hyphens are removed when a search index is created. The engine requires an alphabet file to tell it which characters to treat as text, spaces, word breaks, or to simply ignore. Built in the early 90’s, dtSearch was an early text retrieval software used in eDiscovery, search engines, web crawlers, and more.īut it, too, can’t find “e-discovery” easily. Relativity, and platforms based on it, use the dtSearch engine to conduct fuzzy searches, proximity searches, and the like. Thus, “e-discovery” is treated like “e discovery,” the single letter e is ignored by the search technology and your keyword search for “e-discovery” goes horribly, ironically awry. So, why is software that’s designed to help discover information so bad at searching in these instances? The issue lies with the technology that these platforms are based on.įor example, if you’re attempting to run a keyword search in Relativity, one of the largest eDiscovery technologies, the platform will, by default, ignore a host of “stop words.” These are words and characters the search technology ignores “because they do not act as meaningful criteria in a query.” That shunned, ignored, forgotten text includes punctuation marks, single letters, single numerals, and a multitude of words-112 by default-ranging from “about” to “must” to “your.” Punctuation like periods, dashes, and colons are also ignored. They’re thrown off by terms such as “not.” Even searching for numbers can go wrong-all of which can greatly complicate your investigation. ![]() ![]() Of course, this failing isn’t just for “e-discovery.” Many platforms don't register single-letter words or hyphenates like e-mail. ![]() If you search for “e-discovery” in most platforms, your search is likely to come up with inaccurate results-even if you’re searching documents full of the term. Your eDiscovery software should be able to find "e-discovery," right? But many discovery platforms cannot. ![]()
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