UB at TREC 2010 legal interactive

For the TREC 2010, the State University of New York at Buffalo participated in the Legal E-Discovery task, working on the interactive search task. We selected to explore RPD task 303. Our focus was on how to approach the problem with the assumption that business communication often wants to maintain secrecy or plausible deniability. Accordingly, it is not in the spirit of the problem to approach formulating queries by limiting ourselves to the mere text of the Complaint and RPD's. We have to envision the actual business context and the actual business practices to determine truly effective queries in the context of litigation. A simple interactive system based on Indri search engine was used to test the queries and examine the results. Post-experiment analysis is underway in alignment with the official evaluation.