Overview

This briefing by Iron Mountain (Stratify) evaluates three methods for finding relevant documents within the mass of papers, electronic files and email messages associated with large, complex matters.

In today’s electronic discovery market there are three approaches to finding relevant docu¬ments and critical information: keyword and Boolean search, concept search, and Stratify’s combination of search and concept organization.

Traditional search technology creates an index of all the words in a document, as well as certain relationships (such as proximity) between terms. For each query the search engine looks up the terms in the index and then returns the list of documents that satisfies the query conditions.

Concept search technology extends this traditional approach by adding an additional seman¬tic layer of information regarding the conceptual relationships between terms and phrases to the index. This enables a concept search engine to return a list documents that contain both exact and conceptually related terms that satisfy the conditions of the query. Traditional search indexing and Boolean search techniques, as well as existing concept search technologies, suffer from a series of major challenges.

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