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NOTE: The following letter is from Bill Speros, Attorney Consulting in Evidence Management with Speros & Associates. He is responding to commentary from Information Retrieval expert Gordon Cormack, published here following the ACEDS’ webinar How Automation is Revolutionizing E-Discovery.
Last week ACEDS’ Executive Director, Mary Mack, moderated a webinar presented by Doug Austin, Bill Dimm and Bill Speros entitled, Faster, Better, Cheaper: How Automation is Revolutionizing eDiscovery.
The next day ACEDS published Dr. Gordon Cormack’s response asserting, among other things, that the 60 minute long webinar was based upon “selective reading” and “presented false impressions.”
Here I speak to those concerns and emphasize the webinar’s proposals as to how the profession can move forward because, however well informed and intelligent Dr. Cormack is, his perspective with respect to the webinar, at least, is different than mine.
All panelists were gratified to learn from the webinar host that nearly all 120+ attendees remained throughout our webinar. Happily, 95% of the attendees who rated the session scored it as either “Good” (24%), “Very Good” (38%), or “Excellent” (33%).
Read the complete article at Reconsidering Dr. Cormack’s “Considered Response”