By John TredennickA recent U.S. Department of Justice memorandum questioned the effectiveness of using technology-assisted review with non-English documents. The fact is that, done properly, such reviews can be just as effective for non-English as it is for English documents. This is true even for the so-called “CJK languages” — Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Although these languages do not use standard English-language delimiters such as spaces and punctuation, they are nonetheless candidates for the successful use of technology-assisted review. John Tredennick is a former trial attorney and founder and chief executive officer of Catalyst Repository Systems. He was [...]
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