Predictive Coding

Definition(s)

• An industry-specific term generally used to describe a Technology-Assisted Review process involving the use of a Machine Learning Algorithm to distinguish Relevant from Non-Relevant Documents, based on a Subject Matter Expert’s Coding of a Training Set of Documents. See Supervised Learning and Active Learning. ¹
• A group of machine learning technologies that predict which documents are and are not responsive based on the decisions applied by a subject matter expert to a small sample of documents. ²

Notes

1. Maura R. Grossman and Gordon V. Cormack, EDRM page & The Grossman-Cormack Glossary of Technology-Assisted Review, with Foreword by John M. Facciola, U.S. Magistrate Judge, 2013 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 7 (January 2013).
2. Herb Roitblat, Predictive Coding Glossary.