tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81016534339021067612024-02-19T11:57:36.201-05:00EDD: Issues, Law, and SolutionsKnowledge truly is power. However, knowledge when it comes to e-discovery means knowing where the information is and how to use or access it. Electronic discovery remains a complicated and often costly issue.
This blog will take an objective look at Ediscovery trends litigation support and without warning will veer off into personal observations and themes.Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-87398641883992737402014-06-02T14:09:00.000-04:002014-06-02T14:10:44.859-04:00Superior Document Services announces two team members became Relativity Certified Trainers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2f3132;">Superior Documents Services is proud to announce that two members of our team, Daniel Attaway and Bryant Overgard, have recently become Relativity Certified Administrators!</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: myriad-pro, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">The Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA) program ensures that case administrators fully understand Relativity's capabilities, allowing you to maximize the software's flexibility and provide an intuitive interface for end users. To obtain certification, you must earn a score of 80% or higher on the RCA exam, which contains both written and practical elements</span></b></span></div>
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Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-53178695623432908752014-05-08T13:43:00.002-04:002014-05-08T13:44:45.959-04:00"Predictive" Coding and the Naked Emperor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've always been suspicious of the claims of the "predictive coding" zealots. Every year it seems that there is a new buzzword in the field of Ediscovery. Technology Assisted Review - Check! Information Governance - Check! Cloud Computing - Check. Big Data - Check. </h3>
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My friend <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kju5uj7">John Martin</a> did a magnificent job of distilling some of my concerns in his blog entry that can be found right <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/document-u-blog/predictive-coding-and-the-naked-emperor">here</a>.</h3>
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The Emperor has No Clothes - and PC Can't See Image-Only Documents</h3>
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There are several parallels between predictive coding (AKA technology assisted review) and Hans Christian Andersons' tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes." In the story, two weavers tell the emperor they will make him a suit of clothes that will be invisible to those people who are unfit for their position, stupid, or incompetent. None of the emperor's subjects want to admit to those deficiencies so the emperor parades around with no clothes on until a child states the obvious - the emperor has no clothes.</div>
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<img align="right" alt="Predictive Coding - do not see any evidence here" src="http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/322814/file-743852844-png/images/PredCode02-no_evidence_here.png?t=1399557102752" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 298px;" width="298" />In the case of predictive coding, its advocates have touted the efficacy of their approaches in white papers, blogs, and social media postings, and have practically created a separate industry to host conferences promoting the wonders of predictive coding. Few people want to ruin the moment or buck the trend by pointing out what is obvious when one considers the technology underlying predictive coding - it is completely dependent on having text to analyze. It will absolutely fail to analyze documents for which there is no text, and will do a miserable job where the text is of poor quality.</div>
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This might be just an esoteric debating point if virtually all documents had associated text. However, in some industries like oil & gas, half or more of some collections will be engineering drawings and schematics that were output to image-only PDF for distribution and use by those who don't have the software licenses needed to view the documents in their original file formats.</div>
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<img align="left" alt="Predictive Coding 100 percent right 20 percent of the time" src="http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/322814/file-744188199-png/images/PredCode01_Emperor_right_100percent_20percent_of_time.png?t=1399559193862" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 390px;" width="390" />In practically all industries it is common practice to develop documents in one application like Word and then, once finalized, distribute them as image-only PDF so they can be viewed on a variety of devices and so recipients can't easily change the content. In one collection we analyzed, only 20% of the PDFs had associated text. <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even if predictive coding were 100% effective, the most it could classify would be 20% because it literally cannot "see" the 80% without text</em>. If in fact predictive coding has a recall rate of 70-80% of what it can see, that would mean that predictive coding would have identified 14 to 16% of the total PDFs (70% x 20% = 14% or 80% of 20% = 16%). By contrast, BR's visual classification technology classified 100% of them.</div>
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PDFs will potentially be among the most relevant file types in a collection because that is the format used to distribute information within and among groups of people within an organization, and among organizations. Note that even if in some unique e-discovery settings predictive coding is acceptable, the text-restriction failing of predictive coding will be fatal for broader information governance purposes.</div>
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So... if you're going to use predictive coding, at the very least measure what PC doesn't "see." If you're planning on using PC for information governance purposes, make sure that the organization doesn't mind not classifying a potentially significant percentage of its documents.</div>
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Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-88110170291919558972014-04-03T14:47:00.000-04:002014-04-03T14:47:50.709-04:00What BeyondRecognition Brings to Document Management<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I found this article about BeyondRecognition written by <a href="http://www.cmswire.com/author/mimi-dionne/">Mimi Dionne</a> which does an excellant job of explaining in plain english how BR can benefit every business with large unstructured data collections.</div>
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You can read the entire article right <a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/what-beyondrecognition-brings-to-document-management-024702.php">here</a></div>
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Ever heard of BeyondRecognition? If not, the time to learn is now. The Chantilly, Va.-based "document textnology" software provider offers document managers an alternative to optical character recognition (OCR), while delivering results with accuracy and speed.</div>
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BeyondRecognition (“BR”) may be a young innovation, but it is a viable alternative to OCR. It utilizes glyphs, a letter or character formed by pixels that are of a sufficiently different color from the background of the document as to be identifiable. BR groups like glyphs into clusters at the character and word level. BR converts one glyph per cluster to text as appropriate.</div>
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While OCR continuously decides what each glyph is, BeyondRecognition’s single instance technology need only recognize one glyph per cluster to form a catalog of letters or characters. The advantage: the return on investment of using single instance recognition technology is much higher with a smaller data set — a faster processing speed and better accuracy rate — which shortens the Records Management program’s work breakdown structure significantly.</div>
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BeyondRecognition’s zonal attribute extraction permits subject matter experts to extract attributes from document classifications by clicking and dragging zones on one document per document type cluster.</div>
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Again for more of Mimi's article click<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/what-beyondrecognition-brings-to-document-management-024702.php"> here</a></div>
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Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-43321477989984022702014-04-03T08:56:00.000-04:002014-05-08T13:46:13.337-04:00Information Governance Lessons from the Six Blind Men and the Elephant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This story illustrates several important information governance lessons:</div>
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Here is an example of how different roles will be interested in different attributes:</div>
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Some or all of the information required by the stakeholders above will be objectively evident on the face of individual documents. Other “subjective” attributes may have to be assigned (e.g., “project lead engineer”) by knowledge workers with specific domain expertise, and other more granular data elements <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(e.g., installation location) </span>may have to be assigned by linking attributes from other authoritative data sources or systems of record.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Limited Data Points Means Incomplete or Distorted Pictures</strong>. As the elephant parable illustrates, having only one or a few attributes available results in having an incomplete or distorted picture of what is being managed. The blind men’s picture is so distorted in fact, that when word of an elephant rumbling through cane fields destroying them in search of food reaches their ears, they have no adequate description for the sum of the parts, and thus no way of applying the individually assimilated knowledge in a holistic fashion. The more uniform, accurate and persistent the document attributes or facets that are available, the greater the ability of the organization to assimilate seemingly disparate information to form a more accurate picture of present and future state projects.</div>
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The challenge described above is endemic. It exists across all types of businesses in every jurisdiction. Corporations of all sizes are dealing with big data symptoms and are stymied when comes to finding a cure that has not been available from prior technology.</div>
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Standing apart from the herd is Continuum Advisors. At Continuum, we believe in using powerful emerging technology to help our clients address their most daunting data management challenges. To that end, we have incorporated BeyondRecognition (“BR”) in our services matrix for IG, legal, information security, RIM and a host initiatives that required powerful, scalable data analytics.</div>
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BR is a radically new, data-driven information governance technology that meets the IG needs of multiple stakeholders in any enterprise, public or private. Continuum has implemented BR technology at multiple Fortune 500 clients with great success.</div>
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<img align="left" alt="Elephant_BR_Consclustion_Fx600" src="http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/322814/file-621285263-png/images/Elephant/Elephant_BR_Consclustion_Fx600.png?t=1396235938000" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 450px;" width="450" />The highly experienced CA team chose to align with BR as it is the only technology in the world that automatically classifies electronic files or scanned paper documents based on their visual characteristics – and without having to waste time writing rules to identify each type of document or designating exemplars for each document type. This is tremendously important because accurate, consistent classification is the bedrock upon which all IG initiatives are built. BR solves this long-standing, previously intractable problem.</div>
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Subject matter experts can quickly determine how to classify all the documents in a document cluster by examining one or two documents per cluster. They can also associate a document type name with the cluster based on their organization’s document classification tree, and assign retention periods based on the classification.</div>
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Our subject matter experts in energy, financial services, and pharmaceuticals work with corporate knowledge workers to extract multiple attributes from each document classification by “painting,” i.e., clicking and dragging boxes, on an image of a document from each cluster. BR then automatically extracts the specified attributes and associates each attribute with the attribute or field names assigned by the subject matter experts. The extracted data can then be loaded into the appropriate content management system.</div>
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The various attributes enable the BR-processed documents to be associated with management control systems, e.g., pipeline planning and maintenance, or capital asset acquisition, or ESH inspections. The various attributes serve to provide multiple views into the document collection.</div>
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The extracted attribute values can be normalized prior to loading into the target system or the extracted values can be used to update and validate existing field authority lists.</div>
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For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:red@continuum-advisors.com" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich E. Davis</a>.</div>
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Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-27466610424481996552014-04-01T08:37:00.000-04:002014-04-01T08:37:50.653-04:00BeyondRecognition Denies Plans to Aquire EMC or Kofax<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>To support his view of BR’s growth potential, Martin noted that BR had signed MSA agreements with six Fortune 100 clients in Q1, 2014. </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span><br />
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Martin went on to explain that BR’s information governance technology was based on visual similarity, enabling it to automatically classify documents without the client having to develop upfront document classification rules or select multiple exemplars for each classification. “This greatly compresses the time frame required to launch projects like content migration or file share remediation. The fact that BR classifies native electronic documents as well as scanned paper documents is also a huge competitive advantage.”</div>
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BeyondRecognition (“BR”) provides enterprise-scale information governance technology to Fortune 500 clients. BR’s core technology classifies electronic and scanned paper documents based on their visual similarity. Other components of BR’s offerings include zonal attribute extraction, visual deduping, and glyph recognition. BR technology enables content migration, file remediation, and other IG tasks as well as powering document-intensive business processes. BR’s clients enjoy rapid project start-up and improved accuracy in coding or extracting document attributes, and they particularly appreciate being able to finish projects in months that had originally been scheduled to take years.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information</strong> about BeyondRecognition, visit the BR website at <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">www.BeyondRecognition.net</a>, or contact Joe Howie, VP, Corporate Communications, at <a href="mailto:jhowie@beyondreognition.net" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">jhowie@beyondreognition.net</a>, or 918-894-6943.<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This release valid only on April 1, 2014 – think about it and have a great day</em>.</div>
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Topics: <a class="topic-link" href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/br-spotlight/topic/document-classification" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Document Classification</a>, <a class="topic-link" href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/br-spotlight/topic/visual-classification" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Visual Classification</a>, <a class="topic-link" href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/br-spotlight/topic/acquisitions" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Acquisitions</a>, <a class="topic-link" href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/br-spotlight/topic/information-governance" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Information Governance</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is no question that ISVs are currently trying to go where no capture software has gone before—in terms of applying automatic recognition technology to documents. Over the past couple issues, we’ve covered topics like artificial intelligence, semantics, and advanced analytics, all designed to take applications beyond the capabilities of current capture software. However, an appropriately named start-up out of Germantown, TN (near Memphis), may have beaten many established capture players to the mark.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Using a combination of advanced pattern recognition and computer vision, <strong>BeyondRecognition</strong> recently completed a project in which it successfully indexed 2.3 billion images, which originally contained no meta data. Yes, working as a contractor for an energy company, BeyondRecognition was presented with 27,000 CDs and DVDs full of images that covered a timeframe of roughly 90 years and were created in different locations across the world.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> "There were no boundaries separating the scanned images,” said John Martin, founder and CEO of BeyondRecognition. “The only thing we knew was that the documents on the discs in the front of each box were scanned before the documents on the discs in the back. Our client wanted to be able to mine the data on all these documents.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">According to Martin, he looked at everything available on the market for accomplishing the task at hand. “I looked at traditional OCR applications, but they were a bust—even with voting engines, which would just have made the process five or six times longer,” he said. “Even if we could have applied full-text OCR, conventional search engines could not do the things we wanted. In addition, traditional relational databases couldn’t support the millions of many-to-many relationships we had to set up.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To build the application that eventually became of cornerstone of BeyondRecognition, Martin applied a process he called “negative learning.” “Basically, I started with no pre-conceived ideas about how automatic recognition was being done,” he said. “Instead, I tried to take the position that if I were to build a recognition solution with tools available today, how would I approach it?”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Martin started with the basic premise that computers are good at working with numbers. “Based on that, we were able to identify one of the key flaws of traditional OCR—it attempts to read characters like humans do,” he said. “It goes left to right, top to bottom, first page to last.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“And it attempts to recognize each character individually. Think about that from a statistical standpoint. On each page, a single lowercase character might appear 40 to 50 times. So, on a million pages, that character could show up as many as 50 million times. Basically, with traditional OCR, you’re giving software 50 million chances to get it wrong. Statistically, that means, it’s certainly going to make at least one mistake.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BeyondRecognition puts each image through a process it calls “scraping.” “We literally rip the images apart into glyphs,” said Martin. “Those glyphs include not only the characters on a page, but also things like logos, staple holes, check boxes, signatures, and even specks of dirt. On average, we produce about 1,500 glyphs per page.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We then run the glyphs through a normalization process before grouping them. The normalization involves accounting for orientation by rotating each glyph 720 times in half-degree increments. This way, direction doesn’t matter, and neither does size. After it’s normalized, if a glyph is 99% similar or greater to other glyphs, they are placed in the same cluster.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What happens next is a bit confusing, but it basically involves identifying these clusters as sets of characters. This is accomplished at least partially by identifying the glyph in a cluster that most exactly resembles a known character and then plugging that character into a word that is checked against a global dictionary. There are also statistical formulas incorporated regarding how often a particular character should show up in a set of documents.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We average the results of all that, and if it comes back above a 99% confidence rating that the glyph represents a specific character, we presume it to be true,” said Martin. “Then, because our software tracks the location of each glyph it creates, we can identify all the glyphs in that particular cluster as being that particular character.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of course, not every glyph comes back at a 99% confidence level. To account for this, Martin showed us a process called “Word QC.” In the example he showed “lockbox” was not recognized as a valid word in the global dictionary, so it was highlighted on the screen. The statistics said it was one of several million suspect words (in a large set of documents). Merely confirming that “lockbox” was a valid word had a cascading effect that helped validate other glyphs as characters. The result was that with a single keystroke, 900,000 suspect words were eliminated. “That’s the type of stuff, offshore keyers are being paid to correct on a word-by-word basis,” said Martin.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BeyondRecognition has the ability to output searchable PDF files, as well as what it calls an “XPDF” file. “Basically, this is a cross-reference file, which includes a coordinate point for every word and numeric sequence pulled off a page,” said Martin. “It’s a great tool for redaction applications, for example.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We have a customer using it to redact expressions like Social Security and phone numbers. They can achieve this at a rate of 600,000 redactions per hour.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Because BeyondRecognition works with glyphs, it is able to handle multiple languages—even mixed within a single document set.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It also has the ability to do document clustering based on the layout and content of images. “This is a great tool for automatically routing files to the right process,” said Martin. “We have a BPO that utilizes that element of our technology to help it allocate its resources more effectively.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“In the discovery space, document clustering can help users eliminate a lot of documents they’re not going to need. For example, in a labor case, it enables them to quickly identify tax and marketing documents that won’t be relevant.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This type of document classification also has obvious potential in markets like mortgage and patient records processing, where several types of documents are often mixed in a single file.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rules can be set up within BeyondRecognition’s application for extracting specific data fields and tables. Extraction can be applied to structured and semi-structured documents.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rules can also be set up around the glyphs to eliminate background noise such as watermarks. Martin showed an example of image enhancement being applied to documents created through carbon-paper duplication.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Martin said the speed of BeyondRecognition’s software depends on the number of CPUs being utilized. “A 30-core server can process up to a million pages per day,” he said. “An 80-core can do 5 million, and a 160-core, about 10 million.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To date, BeyondRecognition has offered its technology solely as a service. “We’ve done several dozen projects, including several different types,” said Martin. “We’re currently working on developing an appliance that can be run behind a customer’s firewall.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Martin said that BeyondRecognition’s technology belongs entirely to his company. “There are some patents around it, as well as some we’re applying for,” he said. “We have 15-16 man years worth of development in this.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Martin concluded by echoing the theme we thought was prevalent at the recent <strong>Harvey Spencer Associates </strong>Capture Conference, regarding next generation document capture. “This is a solution for big data,” he said. “If you don’t know what you have, you certainly can’t decide what’s relevant.”</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-70934988141979914672012-09-02T13:35:00.001-04:002012-09-02T22:55:43.552-04:00Willie Wonka, Big Data, Pure Imagination<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">In a world of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Pure imagination</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Will defy</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">….Explanation</span></span></span><br />
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By: <span class="author vcard" style="color: #a5a5a5; font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="fn" href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/staff/516/" style="border: 0px; color: #19698e; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" title="Profile - Bill McKelway">BILL MCKELWAY</a></span> <span class="divider" style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px 4px;">| </span><span class="source-org vcard" style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="org fn" style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Richmond Times-Dispatch</span> </span><br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span class="article_info_stamps published" style="font-size: 0.92em; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Published: August 31, 2012</span></div>
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One of the state's most closely held mining companies, fiercely controlled for more than a half century by a Buckingham County family, could go into receivership and be dissolved in coming weeks under a court decision that concludes the company oppressed minority shareholders and misapplied millions of dollars in corporate assets. <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In a stunning decision issued Thursday that followed years of intrafamily legal wrangling within the Dixon family and its operation of the Kyanite Mining Corp., a Fairfax County judge said in a 41-page ruling that she will appoint a receiver "to wind up and liquidate the business and affairs of the corporation."<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Circuit Judge Jane Marun Roush, named to hear the case after local judges recused themselves and who heard more than two weeks of testimony in the case earlier this summer, called her decision a "drastic" yet appropriate remedy in light of testimony that she said showed a long history of unfair stock manipulation, exorbitant salaries for company officers, and a use of assets that embellished the estates of company leaders and allowed other assets to languish unproductively.<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Alan D. Wingfield, lead attorney for Kyanite, which has been represented by the Richmond-based Troutman Sanders law firm and is now known as the Disthene Group Inc., said in an email Thursday that "Disthene is considering its next steps in this lengthy court case."<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Thomas M. Wolf, who tried the case with John H. Craddock Jr. and Michele K. Burke, all of LeClairRyan, issued a joint statement describing the ruling as "a historic decision that will be cited in legal treatises for years to come. It shows that there are enforceable legal protections for minority shareholders."<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Disthene controls kyanite surface mines in Buckingham County south of Charlottesville that are the world's largest producer of the mineral, which is used as a heat-tolerant component in refractory processes involved in steel-making and other industrial applications.<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Dixon family mining operations and other holdings, including the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach and thousands of acres of old-growth woodlands in central Virginia, have been controlled since 1974 by Gene B. Dixon Jr., 69, who assumed that role upon the death of his father in 1974.<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Legal actions have been ongoing for several years and generally have pitted Dixon Jr., his son and other company officials against three minority shareholders: the husband of Gene Dixon's deceased sister and her two children, Curtis Dixon Colgate and Sharon M. Newcomb.<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kyanite Mining Corp. is one of rural Buckingham's largest employers but is virtually unknown of outside its tight circle of business interests. More evident to the general public are the hundreds of acres of mined moutaintop land visible along U.S. 15 south of Dillwyn.<br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Wolf said during the summer trial that there likely would be little change in day-to-day operations at the mining company if the minority stockholders were successful in their case. The valuable property could be taken under control by new owners or continue under the Dixon family under a new business plan determined by the court and receiver or mutual agreement of the parties. <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" />(This has been a breaking news update. Check back for more details as they become available. Read more in tomorrow's Richmond Times-Dispatch.) </div>
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Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-1683926133991977372012-08-21T19:11:00.003-04:002012-08-21T19:13:18.140-04:00Did We Really Send that File to Opposing Counsel?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By <i style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Justin Blessing</i> of <a href="http://www.compiledservices.com/" target="_blank">Compiled Services</a></div>
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To say an overwhelming portion of documents involved in litigation or regulatory matters today are stored electronically is nearly becoming rote. <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How many</em> documents are involved, how they're processed, in what format they're produced -- it's all old news.</div>
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With recent cases cropping up involving big-name companies, a more interesting conversation surrounds what mistakes are being made in the electronic discovery process and what happens with data before it is handed over to the other side.</div>
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What mistakes are we talking about, really? In the process of collecting, preserving, de-duplicating, filtering, culling, and reviewing ESI, opportunities for errors range from entering incorrect date ranges to inaccurately entering specific format requirements for tools used in downstream stages of the process. Not surprisingly, quality is a huge challenge for a discovery process that involves ever-growing volumes of data. The opportunity for mistakes, oversight, or simple carelessness comes from imperfect technology and the fallible nature of people who just can't guarantee 100 percent focus and attention to massive quantities of information.</div>
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Several high-visibility cases involving McDermott Will & Emery, Google, and Duane Reade, Inc. have drawn attention to quality control issues in the discovery process and highlighted how slip-ups can result in waiver of privilege and ultimately impact the outcome of the case. These cases reinforce the critical importance of quality control at the tail end of discovery before production to opposing counsel.</div>
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Inadvertent waiver of privilege is huge and costly in terms of damages paid and reputation tainted. But what are the other mistakes that law firms, e-discovery vendors and in-house counsel are making -- and how can they be readily fixed? The top 10 mistakes include:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Ineffective Redactions</strong><br />
Applying redactions can be tricky if you don't understand the process. Mistakes include failing to "burn-in" the redaction on the image, not updating or re-OCRing the text files to match, providing un-redacted native files, and failing to redact certain metadata. To remedy, re-review documents on your final production media to make sure the redactions are permanent. Compare the images along with the text. Check if the native is being produced -- and update it to reflect the redaction or remove it from the production. Inspect the metadata fields -- and ensure no privilege or confidential information is found.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Outdated Review Coding</strong><br />
A document may have been marked 'Privilege' by the review team, but if a request for that document to be produced occurred before a change in review coding, who knows about it? It's important to communicate changes, have a process to lock documents in the review system, and recheck the review coding against the final production media before sending it out the door.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Extra and/or Orphaned Files</strong><br />
Sometimes documents need to be manually removed from a production before it's sent off to opposing counsel. It's not enough to just remove the references from the load files. Have a process in place that checks all the file references in your load files and verifies those supporting files -- including images, text, and native -- can be matched against your load files. If you find any files that can't be matched, they may not belong in the production.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Wrong Starting Number</strong><br />
Your first two productions went smoothly, but things started to go wrong with the third production -- the "next bates number" for the third production was already used in the second -- and no one noticed until opposing counsel complained. Now you have documents with duplicate bates numbers, and every production from where the error started needs to be re-produced. Keeping accurate logs for tracking productions and using e-discovery software to compare bates numbers in past productions to new productions can flag duplicates or gaps before it's too late.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Missing Confidentiality</strong><br />
The production request has been made to the litigation support team -- and some documents have been designated 'C' for Confidential and 'HC' for Highly Confidential. Transferring the confidential coding and branding it on the images is another step in the process. Unfortunately, the team 'forgot' to do the branding step. By spot-checking the final production media -- and comparing the coding field that contains the confidentiality status against the production image -- the crisis could be adverted.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Wrong Production Specifications</strong><br />
Is everyone on the same page regarding the production specifications? Is it supposed to be single-page or multi-page images; TIFF or PDF; native files for all or just the spreadsheets; extracted text along with OCR; metadata fields included in the appropriate load files; and correct load files? If final productions meet the agreed upon production format, you will save time, money and embarrassment by not having to fix mistakes.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Not Producing Enough</strong><br />
If documents are being reviewed natively and converted to image, such as TIFF or PDF files, ensure all that can be produced is being produced. For example, spreadsheets may include hidden rows, columns, or sheets, or print areas might be set to exclude data. PowerPoint files may contain notes, or CAD files may have missing supporting files. It's possible the review team did not review everything until a document has been imaged -- or even missed relevant data that should have been deemed responsive. Your process should check the results of native files after they are converted to image.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Load Files Poorly Constructed </strong><br />
Transferring documents from one e-discovery platform to another generally involves the use of load files. Load files move a document's file references -- including any image, text, and/or native files -- along with metadata. But with no single format commonly used or requested, knowing the intricacies of each load file requires experience. Simulating and testing the loading process -- whether it's using the target platform or a tool designed for reading load files -- can quickly identify these mistakes.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Failure to Communicate</strong><br />
Communication among all groups involved can be paramount to an inadvertent production of privileged documents. For example, the final production search may include privilege documents that need to be numbered inline and then removed from the export. But if no one checks to ensure these documents were removed after being numbered, you may end up producing privilege. The team requesting the production should always check the contents of the final production to ensure the correct number of documents and search filters have been applied before sending to opposing counsel.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Assuming it's Right</strong><br />
Quality control measures should be in place among all the teams handling a document production, whether it's the operator running the production or the attorney signing off on the production before it's sent to opposing counsel. Assuming a production doesn't inadvertently contain privilege documents -- when you had the opportunity to inspect it beforehand -- can be a costly mistake. Utilizing quality control tools designed for e-discovery, especially for productions, can allow litigation support, attorneys and paralegals to effectively and efficiently check their productions.</div>
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Germantown, TN (July31, 21012). John Martin, founder and CEO of BeyondRecognition, LLC, announced today that Stephen V. Rice, Ph.D., has agreed to join BeyondRecognition’s Advisory Board and to consult with BeyondRecognition. Martin indicated that, “One of the major functionalities provided by BeyondRecognition is our ability to extract textual and other non-textual glyphs from document images. Dr. Rice’s scientific background uniquely qualifies him to help us to create objective measures of the accuracy of that conversion process at the character, word, and significant-word level.”</div>
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For five years, Dr. Rice conducted the first large-scale independent evaluations of commercial optical character recognition (OCR) systems while at the Information Science Research Institute of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As part of that work he developed sequence comparison algorithms to measure OCR accuracy. He is author of the classic book, “Optical Character Recognition: An Illustrated Guide to the Frontier,” which is essential reading for anyone involved in developing OCR or CAPTCHA systems.</div>
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Rice noted that, “BeyondRecognition has taken a fresh approach to the challenge of extracting text from document images. They have developed several innovative technologies for document conversion and retrieval. I look forward to assisting them as they continue to break new ground in this area.”</div>
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Martin continued, “For the past year we have been building out our code base and our infrastructure and will be looking to Dr. Rice to help us develop statistically-sound performance measures to evaluate our performance. For example, next month we plan to benchmark our system on the approximately 30 million page images of tobacco litigation documents obtained from the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Our goal is to perform the text conversion on the 30 million pages, globally edit the text, index it and be able to perform sub-second retrieval on any page in the collection within 72 hours, start to finish. We want valid, reliable metrics to use to report the results.”</div>
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As to the significance of the document collection, Martin observed, “The TREC Tobacco documents have been used by the TREC Legal Track to gauge the efficacy of various text retrieval systems and methodologies, despite known issues of using inaccurate OCR. The studies compared the results from queries or processing to the documents identified by manual reviews, and the results have been used to argue in favor of ‘predictive coding’ or ‘technology-assisted review.’ We believe that the new, more accurate text output by BeyondRecognition will let researchers show how the early studies may have understated the effectiveness of technology-assisted review.”</div>
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About Dr. Rice</div>
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Dr. Stephen V. Rice consults as a computer scientist and software engineer with expertise in algorithms, computer audio, computer simulation, database systems, pattern recognition, programming languages, and related areas. He was a computer science professor at the University of Mississippi, was chief software engineer at the UNLV Information Science Research Institute, and is Founder and CTO of Comparisonics Corporation. He served on the board of advisors of the Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. </div>
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For more about Dr. Rice, see <a href="http://www.stephenvrice.com/" style="color: #0071d2; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.stephenvrice.com">http://www.stephenvrice.com</a>. </div>
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About BeyondRecognition</div>
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BeyondRecognition has developed unique character, word, and document attribute recognition and extraction capabilities for analyzing image-based documents. Its glyph clustering and cataloging approach enables rapid, globally-editable text recognition with accuracy rates far beyond traditional OCR. BeyondRecogntion also clusters documents based on visual similarity and permits location-based, cluster-specific data element extraction for coding or abstracting data elements from the documents. Clustering by document type permits prioritized data element extraction using the powerful graphical user interface to highlight zones, and to write and instantly test and verify extraction rules.</div>
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Although nominally a “startup,” the principal technologists at BeyondRecognition have been working in the fields of document conversion, electronic evidence forensics and processing for decades. CEO John Martin was previously a founder of Cricket Technologies and RedFile LLC.</div>
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For more information, visit <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/" style="color: #0071d2; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.BeyondRecognition.net">www.BeyondRecognition.net</a>. </div>
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</div>Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-70309213072302080092012-07-09T11:16:00.000-04:002012-07-09T11:34:32.856-04:00John Lennon's "IMAGINE" recast as the greatest song ever written about Predictive Coding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My friend, and the resident genius behind <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/" target="_blank">BeyondRecognition</a>: John Martin gets a tip of the hat for his ode to Predictive Coding - probably, err without a doubt the greatest song ever written about Predictive Coding, or any branch of eDiscovery. Way to keep it real John Martin<br />
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<em style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine . . . (Not the John Lennon version)</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine there's reliable Predictive Coding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">It's easy if you try</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">No definitive precision</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The results, we're not sure why</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine all the people that you wouldn't need</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine there's no objections</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">It isn't hard to do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Nothing to explain or cry for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">And no sanctions too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine all the people you don't have to pay</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I hope some day you'll believe us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then Predictive Coding can just be fun</span>
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Richmond, VA – June 28, 2012 – Compiled Services, the developers of litigation support and e-Discovery software <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ReadySuite</strong>, today announced the latest release of the software, version 4.3, with a number of improvements and upgrades . This new version allows users to add annotations and overlays to existing PDF documents without losing the ability to search the PDF. It also has improved speed for faster navigation through documents, enhanced quality checking, and the option to copy source files for images to improve export performance, among other changes.</div>
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Improvements to the PDF endorsing features in <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ReadySuite </strong>mark a significant change from past versions of the software. Users will now be able to add Bates numbers, document identifiers, confidential stamps and metadata fields to PDFs, without losing the underlying text and OCR of the PDF document. With the latest version, when adding endorsements to PDF documents, the file size will not increase significantly and searching for text in the PDF will remain intact.</div>
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Users performing important quality checks of their productions will now notice a significant speed improvement when navigating between larger documents, due to enhancements in ReadySuite’s thumbnail handling. Exporting documents and image files from ReadySuite will also see a significant speed improvement, with the ability to directly copy the source image files. In prior versions, all images exported were passed through ReadySuite’s imaging engine in case there were clean-up functions or endorsements being added. With <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ReadySuite </strong>4.3, if there are no changes to the underlying image, the image file can be copied instead.</div>
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“At Compiled Services, we are always looking for areas to innovate and add to and improve <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ReadySuite</strong>,” said Justin Blessing, Director of Product Development at Compiled Services. “Our users were looking for better ways to handle PDF endorsements, without adding costly OCR processing and larger file sizes to the mix. I believe our developments here are one-of-a-kind in the industry and will allow users to better manage their PDF documents involved in e-Discovery and regulatory issues.”</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ReadySuite </strong>is a bundled suite of specialized litigation software for handling various document related tasks. The software includes modules for reviewing, validating, merging, and manipulating load files, converting among multiple image formats such as TIFF and PDF, applying or removing endorsements from image sets, generating searchable text and PDF files using OCR, and batch printing image sets to high capacity printers.</div>
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The company recently released a free white paper entitled “<a href="http://www.compiledservices.com/click.php?r=10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-color: transparent; color: #00b2d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Need for e-Discovery Quality Control in the Age of Digital Data</a>,” which covers the current state of quality control in the e-Discovery industry, areas for improvement and a possible solution. To download the white paper, <a href="http://www.compiledservices.com/click.php?r=10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-color: transparent; color: #00b2d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">click here</a>.</div>
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A one-year subscription of <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ReadySuite </strong>can be purchased for $1,179.95 at our <a href="http://www.compiledservices.com/pricing" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-color: transparent; color: #00b2d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">online store here</a>. A free 14-day trial of ReadySuite can be <a href="http://www.compiledservices.com/download" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-color: transparent; color: #00b2d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">downloaded here</a>.</div>
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Compiled Services, the developers of litigation support and e-Discovery
software ReadySuite, today announced it has integrated ReadySuite with
Autonomy’s Introspect document review tool. The integration was completed
through Capax Global, a hosted e-Discovery provider whose clients needed
ReadySuite’s popular load file conversion functionality to convert and export
data to industry-standard load files.<br />
“ReadySuite provided us with an easy, accurate way to extend the capabilities
of Introspect,” said Allen Gurney, Director, Hosting and Professional
Services at Capax Global. “Now our clients have the advanced load file conversion
they need, seamlessly integrated into one of the best processing, review and
production solutions available.”<br />
In addition to ReadySuite’s load file conversion functionality, Capax’s
Introspect users will also benefit from ReadySuite’s ability to provide a
thorough quality control of its export sets and productions. Viewers for
inspecting images, text and launching native files alongside document
metadata and review coding; an advanced grid for filtering, grouping and
sorting fields; comparing burned-in redactions; and other validation and
verification steps are a part of ReadySuite’s integration.<br />
“We were pleased to be able to provide additional functionality to Autonomy’s
Introspect that just couldn’t be found elsewhere for a reasonable price and
with a limited amount of development time,” said Justin Blessing, Director of
Product Development at Compiled Services. “e-Discovery experts like Capax and
Autonomy are realizing how easy it is to incorporate ReadySuite with their
existing offering to improve functionality and quality of their clients’
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I recently stumbled upon a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hills-Manual-Social-Business-Forms/dp/B000Y0ASNU" target="_blank">Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms.</a> The book contains extensive bits information that would be useful to a man of business back in the late 19th Century. There are sections dedicated to penmanship, business letter writing, and the dos and don’t of social and business etiquette.<br />
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One section in the book is called “Unclassified Laws of Etiquette.” It’s a list of different rules of business etiquette and the advice is still strikingly appropriate If a man puts these suggestions into practice, he will definitely set himself apart for the other knuckleheads out there trying to land a job or catch the eye of a good looking gal.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Never exagerate.</span><br />
Never point at another.<br />
Never betray a confidence.<br />
Never leave home with unkind words.<br />
Never neglect to call upon your friends.<br />
Never laugh at the misfortunes of others.<br />
Never give a promise that you do not fulfill.<br />
Never send a present, hoping for one in return.<br />
Never speak much of your own performances.<br />
Never fail to be punctual at the time appointed.<br />
Never make yourself the hero of your own story.<br />
Never pick the teeth or clean the nails in company.<br />
Never fail to give a polite answer to a civil question.<br />
Never question a child about family matters.<br />
Never present a gift saying that it is of no use to yourself.<br />
Never read letters which you may find addressed to others.<br />
Never fail, if a gentleman, of being civil and polite to ladies.<br />
Never call attention to the features or form of anyone present.<br />
Never refer to a gift you have made, or favor you have rendered.<br />
Never associate with bad company. Have good company, or none.<br />
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Never look over the shoulder of another who is reading or writing.<br />
Never appear to notice a scar, deformity, or defect of anyone present.<br />
Never arrest the attention of an acquaintance by touch. Speak to him.<br />
Never punish your child for a fault to which you are addicted yourself.<br />
Never answer questions in general company that have been put to others.<br />
Never, when traveling abroad, be over boastful in praise of your own country.<br />
Never call a new acquaintance by their first name unless requested.<br />
Never lend an article you have borrowed, unless you have permission to do so.<br />
Never attempt to draw the attention of the company constantly upon yourself.<br />
Never exhibit anger, impatience or excitement, when an accident happens.<br />
Never pass between two persons who are talking together, without an apology.<br />
Never enter a room noisily; never fail to close the door after you, and never slam it.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Never fail to offer the easiest and best seat in the room to an invalid, an elderly person, or a lady.</span><br />
Never neglect to perform the commission which the friend entrusted to you. You must not forget.<br />
Never send your guest, who is accustomed to a warm room, off into a cold, damp, spare bed, to sleep.<br />
Never enter a room filled with people, without a slight bow to the general company when first entering.<br />
Never fail to answer an invitation, either personally or by letter, within a week after the invitation is received.<br />
Never accept of favors and hospitality without rendering an exchange of civilities when opportunity offers.<br />
Never cross the leg and put one foot in the street-car, or places where it will trouble others when passing by.<br />
Never fail to tell the truth. If truthful, you get your reward. You will get your punishment if you deceive.<br />
Never borrow money and neglect to pay. If you do, you will soon be known as a person of no business integrity.<br />
Never write to another asking for information, or a favor of any kind, without enclosing a postage stamp for the reply.<br />
Never fail to say kind and encouraging words to those whom you meet in distress. Your kindness may lift them out of their despair.<br />
Never refuse to receive an apology. You may not receive friendship, but courtesy will require, when a apology is offered, that you accept it.<br />
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Germantown, TN: (May 30, 2012). John Martin, founder and CEO of BeyondRecognition, LLC, today stated that, ”BeyondRecognition is pleased to announce that Ken May will be providing business development guidance for BeyondRecognition as it pushes its innovative image-based document analysis technology into key markets like mortgage and loan processing, and the oil and gas industries.” BeyondRecognition’s breakthrough integrated workflow enables companies to obtain actionable intelligence from image-based and electronic format documents at a fraction of the cost associated with manually reviewing and abstracting paper files and often with higher accuracy and reliability.</div>
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Martin continued, “BeyondRecognition’s core competencies lie in document processing and analysis, and Ken brings an incredible wealth of experience managing FedEx Kinkos, one of the largest and most wide-spread document copying and handling operations in the world, as well as planning and managing some of the most highly automated decision-support systems in the world. He also has a wealth of C-level contacts at companies across America from his many years of service as Chairman of the National Board of Trustees for the March of Dimes. We look forward to being able to capitalize on his rich experience, energy, and industry knowledge.”</div>
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Ken May commented, “I have had the opportunity over the years to review many exciting technologies at all sorts of start-ups and emerging market leaders, but I was especially struck at how innovative BeyondRecognition’s technology is and at the incredible value it offers companies that are faced with needing to analyze and process large volumes of paper-based records. This is particularly true in industries like home loan processing where the documents in the underlying files are typically not all or even mostly electronic. The need to process existing back files of loan documents and to eventually automate the new loan initiation process represents an enormous potential. I look forward to helping spread the message about this important new technology.”</div>
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About Ken May</div>
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Beginning as a manager of hub operations for FedEx in 1982, May served in various management positions, becoming VP, Global Operations Scheduling and Control in 1996. He then served as Sr. VP, Air-Ground and Freight Services 1997 to 1999, was Sr. VP US Operations from 1999 to 2004, COO at FedEx-Kinko’s Office and Print Centers from 2004 to 2006, and was President and CEO at FedEx-Kinko’s Office and Print Centers from 2006 to 2008. </div>
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May served as Chairman of the National Board of Trustees at the March of Dimes from 2007 to 2011, and was President of ES3, LLC, the third-party logistics subsidiary of C&S Wholesale Grocers, the eighth-largest privately held company in the US by revenue from 2010 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012 he was President and COO at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.</div>
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May has been a director of PF Chang’s China Bistro since May 2007, and serves on the Board of Directors of Greystone Medical Group. </div>
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For more about Ken May, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_may" style="color: #0071d2; text-decoration: none;" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_may">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_may</a>.</div>
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About BeyondRecognition</div>
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BeyondRecognition has developed unique character, word and document attribute recognition and extraction capabilities for analyzing image-based documents. Its glyph clustering and cataloging approach enables rapid, globally-editable text recognition with accuracy rates far beyond traditional OCR. BeyondRecognition also clusters documents based on visual similarity and permits location-based, cluster-specific data element extraction for coding or abstracting data elements from the documents. Clustering by document type permits prioritized data element extraction using the powerful graphical user interface to highlight zones, and to write and instantly test and verify extraction rules.</div>
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Although nominally a “startup,” the principal technologists at BeyondRecognition have been working in the fields of document conversion, electronic evidence forensics and processing for decades. CEO John Martin was a founder of Cricket Technologies, LLC and RedFile LLC.</div>
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For more information, visit <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/" style="color: #0071d2; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.BeyondRecognition.net">www.BeyondRecognition.net</a>. </div>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When confronted with massive amounts of unstructured data and the need to access the business intelligence locked inside that data the options before today were expensive, required massive human intervention, were extremely time consuming and most troubling, very ineffective. John Martin loves disruptive technology. I love how John Martin thinks. <br /><br />John's latest game changing software <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/BeyondRecognition,_LLC/Overview.html" target="_blank">BeyondRecognition</a> is being referred to as a "Big Data innovator" by several of the " Big Four" accounting firms. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;">The tool was originally built for a company that needed to extract key information from a 30+ year old scanned paper document set of 2.3 BILLION pages for a due diligence effort. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #414444; line-height: 18px;">In the energy sector, Beyond Recognition's glyph clustering technology makes it possible to search for symbols </span></span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Essentially BeyondRecognition's unique character, word and document attribute recognition and extraction capabilities for analyzing image-based documents. In Plain english BR allows clients to extract very valuable business intelligence from scanned and digitized files fast, accurately and in a cost-efficient manner. In a <a href="http://finance.cio.com/idg.cio/news/read?" target="_blank">press release</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Barbara Johnson, CFA, former executive of USAA Federal Savings Bank, serving as Chief Credit Officer and Senior Vice President of Real Estate Lending Services and now a Principal with Saccadent, a Financial Consulting firm, has reviewed the clustering and data extraction capabilities and offered the comment that, "In today's environment the ability to extract, utilize and match data across a variety of documents is incredibly powerful. This type of technology offers the promise of significantly decreasing the time and cost to process a thoroughly compliant loan from application through origination, audit, sale and servicing. An automated system to confirm all the critical items match throughout the process and are in the appropriate format and location on all documents would be invaluable. Lending is a document-rich industry and the time is perfect for this type of technology."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br />Another intriguing aspect is that BR solution is language agnostic automatically recognizing 40+ languages interspersed throughout any data set with no up-front programming required and performs at 99.5% word accuracy on first pass unassisted review. The solution can scale to meet customer requirements between 500k - 50m pages per day regardless of the legibility of the images. In fact using BR Adaptive Image Enhancement techniques restorion of poor quality document images to much improved legibility is a seemless byproduct </span></div>
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Sharon D. Nelson, Esq. President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a computer forensics and legal technology firm in Fairfax, Virginia, graduate pf Georgetown University Law Center expert in electronic evidence law posted an article yesterday on Ready Suite on her blog <a href="http://ridethelightning.senseient.com/" target="_blank">Ride the Lightning</a> . Sharon's blog is a must read under any circumstances but yesterdays article about an affordable and effective Ediscovery tool moves Ride the Lightning to the top of my RSS feed<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">…the new document textnology</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">John Martin turns the Technology Assisted Review, Post Clustering Data Extraction Upside Down using Facial Recognition Principles :</span><br />
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Companies achieve many benefits when theycan quickly, accurately and inexpensively cluster like documents. For example, 500-page home loan files can be scanned on high speedscanners, the pages programmatically grouped intodocuments, and like document types clustered or categorized across all the loan files without significant operator intervention, permitting the company to check if the mortgage files contain the expected types of documents, e.g. deeds, inspection reports, insurance binders, lien releases, etc.<br />
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Furthermore, with precise clustering of the same document types, data that was unique to each<br />
document can be extracted and compared to expected values. To continue the loan file example<br />
the form of the grantee’s name or the property description can be compared across all documents or<br />
against a loan tracking system to make sure all the values matched.<br />
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New technology from <a href="http://beyondrecognition.net/" target="_blank">BeyondRecognition</a> (“BR”) provides this type of functionality. BR examines the<br />
“faces” or images of documents and using between roughly a thousand and fifteen hundred points of<br />
comparison, clusters or groups those documents that have a high degree of similarity. By contrast, facial<br />
recognition of picture of human faces typically uses less than 200 points of comparison.<br />
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One of the most subtle but profound consequences of programmatic document typing or clustering is that<br />
documents are arranged in clusters before you have to decide what to name them or what data elements to<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Post-Clustering Data Element Extraction</span></strong><br />
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Anyone who has ever tried to write coding rules or document processing instructions for the handling of<br />
heterogeneous document collections knows that one of the largest obstacles is that you don’t know what’s<br />
in the collection until you’ve gone through it all. The typical scenario is to sample documents, write the<br />
best manual you can up front and then be prepare for many updates and revisions as the project unfolds.<br />
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The graphical interface used by BR for creating data extraction rules permits rapid, extremely accurate<br />
coding of the various document clusters using cluster specific location coordinates and other textual as well<br />
as nontextual markers, to extract those data elements most pertinent to each data type or cluster.<br />
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In fact, it will typically take an experienced clustering consultant less time to actually create and apply the<br />
rules after the documents have been programmatically clustered than it would for a projectmanager to write a comprehensive coding manua before or during the project implementation phase for manual coding.<br />
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With the breakthrough graphical interface the clustering consultant can also see immediately what<br />
data is extracted across an entire cluster right as clusters are being analyzed. This greatly reduces <br />
the time required to write and debug data element extraction rules. Without the interactive feature,<br />
testing would have to be done on a batch basis which is inherently more time consuming and permits far<br />
fewer iterations.<br />
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Clustering also readily identifies anomalousdocuments, ones that are truly unique within the<br />
collection and for which individual rules need not be developed. Anyone who has had to work within the limitations of writing data extraction rules for documents based solely upon the textual representation of those documents will be pleased to know that BR’s extraction rules can be based on non-textual graphical<br />
elements, e.g. a logos or vertical lines. This ability to use non-text graphical elements or data<br />
extraction flags or cues greatly expands the flexibility and power of BR’s data element extraction capability.<br />
It enables BR to achieve an accuracy and thoroughness rivaling if not in many cases exceeding<br />
that of human-based reviewers or coders – and at a fraction of the cost and time, to say nothing of<br />
security benefits of not having legions of people reviewing potentially sensitive corporate documents<br />
and trade secrets just to have indices prepared.<br />
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If you are not familiar with this technology, please visit <a href="http://www.beyondrecognition.net/">http://www.beyondrecognition.net/</a>.<br />
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Alternatively, to learn how you can put BeyondRecognition to work solving your document problems<br />
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Contact John Martin at <a href="mailto:John@beyondrecognition.net">John@beyondrecognition.net</a> or <a href="mailto:Kriss@focusdata-mgt.com">Kriss@focusdata-mgt.com</a><br />
</div>Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-27529514259501653872012-05-13T18:04:00.000-04:002012-05-14T14:27:33.465-04:00Atlee Lacrosse IS HIGH SCHOOL Lacrosse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The <a href="http://weblog.hcps.us/ahsblog/blogs/athletics/pages/boys-lacrosse-information.aspx" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Atlee Raiders</a> traveled to meet the <a href="http://www.christchurchschool.org/teampages" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christchurch Seahorses</a> for one of the best high school games that could have been played this year. The Raiders came riding high into Christchurch with a ton of momentum having successively navigated wins in all but two of it’s games. The Raiders’ only two losses of the year were close games, one of which was an overtime loss to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tabb-Lacrosse/118590621500859" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tabb</a> and the other a 1 point loss to a select team based in Williamsburg. Tabb like Atlee is a self administered VHSL team and their only loss of the season came at the hands of Division II Private School Bishop Sullivan with a score of 4-5. Atlee had not played any private schools and accepted the invitation to play Division I Private School Christchurch. The decision to meet Christchurch was a huge step for the Atlee program and should be seen as a way to bridge the perceptual competitive disparity between private school programs and high school club teams. In the game last night Atlee proved that the disparity is perceptual and not reality.</div>
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The Raiders arrived at Christchurch a little late and when they stepped off the bus someone next to me remarked that they didn’t look to excited to be there. In what I suspect was a two hour bus trip through driving rain I am not sure that I would be that excited either and given the fact that these student/athletes had spent the day in school and now were heading onto the field with one of the best lacrosse teams in the state. The Seahorse’s only loss to a Virginia team was against perennial powerhouse St. Anne’s-Belfield.</div>
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In writing about this game I wanted to leave out the word rain and have decided to instead refer to it as Buckets of Liquid Sunshine or “BLS” and we had buckets and buckets of liquid sunshine “BBLS” throughout the entire game.</div>
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After about twenty minutes to warm-up the Raiders hit the field for the first face off. The Seahorse’s scored a quick goal and the Raider’s matched it. The Seahorse’s then scored 3 unanswered goals and it would be easy to think that would be the way the rest of the game would go, but it seemed like the Raiders weren’t ready to play that script. As the BLS turned into BBLS the Raiders stepped up their game overcoming the deficit and even taking the lead just before halftime. The Raiders played with the determination of champions never giving up in a game that was never decided until the final minutes of the fourth quarter. Late in the fourth quarter the Raiders were actually in striking distance of tying the score until the Seahorses scored successive unanswered goals to seal the win.</div>
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For anyone that has ever stood through that much BBS and BBLS to watch a game you know that when its over that everyone heads for dry land. Such was not the case at the end of this one. The handshake at the end was anything but perfunctory and what I witnessed was genuine respect for each other and huge respect for the game. Players, Parents, and Coaches all stood around talking expressing admiration for each team exchanging handshakes and hugs. It was one of the best impromptu celebrations that I have ever witnessed and when I saw at least one of the Raiders attempting the dive slide “slippy-slide” on the field and subsequent Facebook congratulatory messages I realized why I love this game.</div>
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Anyone that follows my posts knows that I am not a sports writer and that I support the high school experience at every opportunity. I couldn’t wait for this game because like many others I believed that it would be a tremendous way to show that high school club lacrosse teams can be competitive. I also believe that playing highly competitive lacrosse should not be exclusive to the private schools in Virginia. Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Colorado, and North Carolina are all good examples of states that have competitive lacrosse at both the public and private levels. The Atlee Raiders are also proving that when a club team can build a partnership with the school it benefits the entire community. The Atlee community is also driving force behind <a href="http://rollwithcole.org/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Roll with Cole">Roll with Cole</a> and it is so great to see Cole at the games, be sure to click the link to see a calendar of fundraisers and events. You can also join the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cole-Sydnor/267777843240064" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="C+Squad">C+Squad</a> on Facebook and I would like to encourage the whole lacrosse community to “like” the page to show your support for Cole and his family.</div>
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The Raiders played again the following night defeating Deep Run by a score 8-6 and will meet Patrick Henry-Ashland on Tuesday, May 15th. The Seahorses will now enter the Division 1 playoffs, that schedule should be announced soon.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</b> We would like to send our love and prayers to Christchurch Head Coach <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vince.smith.35" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vince Smith</a> and his family. Vince’s Mom suffered a heart attack and is at UVA Medical center. Please pray for her and the entire Smith family.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Technology groups documents based on an image, not textual, analysis, permitting rapid development of cluster-specific, location-based data extraction rules</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">GERMANTOWN, TN, April 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- John Martin, founder and CEO of BeyondRecognition, LLC, announced today that <a href="http://beyondrecognition.net/BeyondRecognition,_LLC/TREC_Redux/Entries/2012/4/24_BeyondRecognition_Announces_Image-Based_Document_Clustering_Technology.html" target="_blank">BeyondRecognition </a>("BR") has developed software to cluster like documents based on an analysis of document images and to then quickly build cluster-specific, location-based data extraction rules. Those rules combined with BR's innovative glyph-clustering text recognition process permit the extraction of fields of data about a document's attributes or contents</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Martin predicted, "Image-based document clustering and the graphical interface for the rapid development of cluster-specific data extraction rules provides a level of accuracy and speed that rivals and in some cases exceeds manual coding. This type of approach may dramatically reduce the volume of basic, objective manual document coding work being done, especially with systems like ours that programmatically detect document boundaries."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Martin also noted, "We're seeing a great deal of interest in this approach in the mortgage and energy sectors. The mortgage industry in particular typically has a relatively finite number of documents in loan files supporting the loan decisions, with definable types of data being of interest on each type of document. Our process could greatly lower the cost of tracking all those data elements during loan initiation, or to quality control the file for audit or sale purposes."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Focus Data Management President and Founder <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5208569&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=THQI&locale=en_US&srchid=4a5f0a23-2cb9-48bd-a77b-66b1c3911f6c-0&srchindex=1&srchtotal=151&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_*1_Michael_Mulcahy_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link" target="_blank">Michael Mulcahy </a>states " </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">text analysis or retrieval system can’t find what isn’t in its index- rendering the knowledge contained therin less than accessible. "</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Barbara Johnson, CFA, former executive of USAA Federal Savings Bank, serving as Chief Credit Officer and Senior Vice President of Real Estate Lending Services and now a Principal with Saccadent, a Financial Consulting firm, has reviewed the clustering and data extraction capabilities and offered the comment that, "In today's environment the ability to extract, utilize and match data across a variety of documents is incredibly powerful. This type of technology offers the promise of significantly decreasing the time and cost to process a thoroughly compliant loan from application through origination, audit, sale and servicing. An automated system to confirm all the critical items match throughout the process and are in the appropriate format and location on all documents would be invaluable. Lending is a document-rich industry and the time is perfect for this type of technology."</span></div>
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<span class="style_3" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px;">Martin commented about the BeyondRecognition product development road map, "Because we track the page position of each character and word we will at some point develop true proximity searching where users could specify how many inches or centimeters either vertically or horizontally the search terms needed to be in relation to each other in order to satisfy the search parameters. This could include a relational operator for looking in the same row or the same column or within 'x' rows or 'y' columns. Our standardized output files would also enable search engine providers to incorporate this functionality in their engines."</span></div>
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</div>Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08414494916717541504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101653433902106761.post-1503914085956791452012-05-03T11:54:00.000-04:002012-05-03T11:54:12.616-04:00Judge rejects entire defense after spoliation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Virginia Lawyers Weekly published this <a href="http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/05/03/judge-rejects-entire-defense-after-spoliation/" target="_blank">article</a> today . Goes to show that honesty and integrity an inttegral part off our justice system. <br />
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In this lawsuit <strong> </strong>involving Safeway, Inc., (Garlick v. Safeway, Inc.), and the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that these cases should be heard by a jury rather than decided by a trial judge. Safeway had originally been successful in getting the slip and fall lawsuit dismissed on the grounds that the plaintiff’s case lacked evidence. The Supreme Court reversed the circuit court citing that they erred in granting Safeway’s motion that the plaintiff did not have a “prima facie” case. Prima facie is a Latin term, which refers to the evidence sufficient to prove a case<br />
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Judges can come down hard on litigants who hide or destroy evidence, but they rarely go so far as to block a defendant’s entire liability defense. Yet that’s what a Fairfax County judge did in a supermarket slip-and-fall case last year.<br />
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Circuit Judge Robert J. Smith lowered the boom on Safeway Inc., after finding the company had submitted an affidavit which – incorrectly – stated that vital evidence had been destroyed in conjunction with a store remodeling project. A company official later acknowledged the statement was false, according to Fairfax attorney Lawson D. Spivey III, who represented accident victim Cynthia Garlick.<br />
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In a trial that focused on damages only, a jury awarded Garlick $120,000 last year. The case is Garlick v. Safeway Inc.<br />
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Even after acknowledging the disingenuous affidavit, the company still never produced the information sought. The missing evidence included an employee’s statement about the accident, the name of the employee and video of the accident, Spivey said.<br />
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Spivey said his injured client did her own investigative work to locate the store employee. After five years of litigation, including three visits to the Supreme Court of Virginia, Garlick is hoping to see Safeway’s check for nearly $130,000, representing the verdict plus interest.<br />
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Garlick was shopping at a Safeway in Burke when she slipped in water on the floor and fell, breaking her arm. She had seen an employee in the area, stocking a shelf with cheese. The employee moved off and she approached the area, then slipped. She testified in an initial trial that she found herself in a puddle of water that covered an area of two-and-a-half to three feet of the floor.<br />
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Another employee testified he had seen water dripping from similar food carts, according to a 2009 Supreme Court opinion in the case.<br />
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Smith rejected Garlick’s case in the first trial. He struck her evidence, finding she had failed to show that Safeway could have known about the hazard.<br />
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The Supreme Court reversed in an unpublished order, sending the case back to Smith for another trial. With evidence showing an employee working in the area of the hazard, the court ruled, a jury could conclude that the employee should have either cleaned up the water or warned customers. <br />
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On remand to the Fairfax court, Smith gave the green light for Spivey and his team to explore Safeway’s missing evidence. “We kept getting the runaround,” Spivey complained.<br />
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Garlick’s lawyers demanded a deposition of a corporate representative with knowledge of the store’s practices regarding accidents. The designee revealed the missing information was not destroyed as part of any store remodeling. Nonetheless, the information still was not available.<br />
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Spivey said Garlick spent thousands of dollars on investigative work, in the absence of discovery documents from Safeway. “They really put it to her,” Spivey said.<br />
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Garlick managed to locate the Safeway employee involved. “It was just a stroke of luck that we found that employee,” Spivey said.<br />
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Smith’s decision to strike Safeway’s liability defense came at a hearing, Spivey said. “This has been a lesson in discovery abuse,” he reportedly said.<br />
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Safeway counsel Paul L. Warren of Norfolk did not return a call for comment.<br />
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