From the announcement:
…Relativity Analytics powers functionality such as clustering, the automatic grouping of documents by similar concepts, as well as concept search, and the ability for end users to train the system to group documents based on concepts and issues they define.
Relativity is being deployed in EOUSA’s Litigation Technology Service Center (LTSC) to provide electronic discovery services for all U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, which include over 6,000 attorneys nationwide. EOUSA will use Relativity Analytics to empower U.S. Attorney teams to do more with limited resources by allowing them to quickly locate key documents and increase their review speeds through enormous data sets in compressed time frames.
I like the training the system to group documents idea. Not that far from interactive merging based on user criteria. Would be more useful to colleagues if portions of documents could be grouped, so they don’t have to wade through documents for the relevant bits.
There is a lot of e-discovery management software on the market but two quick points:
1) The bar for good software goes up every year, and,
2) Topic maps have unique features that could make them players in this ever expanding market.