You Should Check the Level of Your Fuzzy When Searching: eDiscovery Best Practices

By Doug Austin

If the title seems odd, let me clarify. I’m talking about “fuzzy” searching, which is a mechanism by finding alternate words that are close in spelling to the word you’re looking for. Fuzzy searching will expand your search recall, but too much “fuzzy” will leave you reviewing a lot of non-responsive hits.

Attorneys may know what terms they’re looking for, but those terms may not always be spelled correctly. Let’s face it, we all make mistakes. For example, if you’re…

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  • Doug Austin

    Doug Austin is the editor and founder of eDiscovery Today and an EDRM Global Advisory Council Leader. Doug is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous commercial and government clients. Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers. He has received the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as the Top eDiscovery Author for 2017 and 2018 and a JD Supra Readers Choice Award as a Top Cybersecurity Author for 2019.

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