Lexbe.com Adds Concept Search to its Web-Based Litigation Support Application

PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 18, 2008 – Lexbe.com announced today that it has added conceptual searching as a tool, in its web-based case analysis and evidence management application. Concept search allows litigation teams to search electronic documents on the basis of ideas they contain, rather than being limited by the literal terms of specific keywords. Concept search can be important because it can return search results from relevant documents that might otherwise be missed with a standard keyword search.

For example, a search without concept search for the term 'injury' would return documents that included the term 'injury' and derivatives, like 'injuring' and 'injuries'. However, a concept search for 'injury' would additionally return documents that mention 'trauma', 'abrasion', 'wound', etc.

The influential Sedona Conference has noted in its recently released Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery (August 2007) that simple keyword searches can be substantially improved by "using conceptual searching, which makes use of taxonomies and ontologies assembled by linguists."

Courts have also begun to encourage concept searches as part of a thorough review of electronic documents. Federal Judge Facciola noted in a recent federal case that "concept searching, as opposed to keyword searching, is more efficient and more likely to produce the most comprehensive results." Disability Rights Council of Greater Wash. v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth., 2007 WL 1585452 (D.D.C. June 1, 2007).

Lexbe Online implements conceptual searching through an optional check box on its search page in the application. Once checked, search results will be expanded through reference to an extensive lexical and semantic network of the English language.

Lexbe.com is a web-based case analysis and evidence management application. Case analysis features include fact and issue analysis, case calendaring, tracking of case participants, deposition analysis, case research, fact tracking and dynamic chronology and timeline generation. Document management features include full-text search, automatic optical character recognition (OCR) of PDF files, document sorting, retrieval and repository, native file review, metadata analysis, document coding, document encryption and off-line access. Lexbe.com is offered on a ASP software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis, so users can access the Lexbe Online application from any web-based computer without the need to install or maintain software. Lexbe.com is available starting at $79/month, with no set-up, cancellation or individual user license fees. A thirty-day free trial and online web demos are available at http://Lexbe.com.


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For a web-version of this release, see: http://www.lexbe.com/hp/pr/pr-2008-02-18-concept-search.aspx