What is Predictive Coding?

Predictive Coding is a court-endorsed process that combines people, technology and workflow to find key documents quickly, irrespective of keyword. Due to its massive accuracy and efficiency gains, Predictive Coding is revolutionizing how Early Case Assessment (ECA), analysis and document review are done. Predictive Coding has three components:

Predict
Case experts use Predictive Analytics to find key documents quickly and irrespective of keywords

Code
Keyword-agnostic machine learning finds other relevant documents

Process
Proven workflow with integrated sampling delivers results to a statistical certainty

Recommind developed Predictive Coding in partnership with some of the world’s leading enterprises and law firms. Recommind customers have been using Predictive Coding for the past 5 years.

What does Predictive Coding require?

Predictive Coding requires ALL of the following:

  • Input from a case expert
  • Keyword-agnostic analytics to find key documents and create
    seed sets
  • Proven workflow to deliver statistically certain results
  • Iterative machine-learning to “find like this” based on meaning,
    not keywords
  • Integrated sampling for certainty and unparalleled defensibility

What does Predictive Coding not do?

Predictive Coding does not replace human review. It optimizes it. The solution takes all the documents related to an issue, ranks and tags them so that a human reviewer can look over the documents to confirm relevance. The beauty of this technology is that attorneys can use human decisions to teach the computer, making the relevancy suggestions more accurate over time.

What is Technology Assisted Review?

Technology Assisted Review (TAR), also known as Computer Assisted Review, is not Predictive Coding. Technology assisted review includes aspects of the non-linear review process such as culling, clustering and de-duplication, but TAR does not meet the requirements for comprehensive Predictive Coding as outlined above.

Many technologies assist in making incremental reductions in eDiscovery costs, but only fully integrated Predictive Coding is able to completely transform the economics of eDiscovery.