The Information Explosion and a Great Article by Grossman and Cormack on Legal Search
A discussion the “information explosion” and review of Technology-Assisted Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and More Efficient Than Exhaustive Manual Review, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology
See what you think but I don’t read the article as debunking exhaustive manual review (by humans) so much as introducing technology to make human reviewers more effective.
Still human review, but assisted by technology to leverage it for large document collections.
As the article notes, the jury (sorry!) is still out on what assisted search methods work the best. This is an area where human recognition of subjects and recording that recognition for others, such as the use of different names for parties to litigation, would be quite useful. I would record that recognition using topic maps, but that isn’t surprising.