E-Discovery Revisited: A Broader Perspective for IR Researchers

It is a very positive development that NIST's Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) has added a track focusing on the legal (discovery) domain. Its organizers should be acknowledged for their commitment and hard work to establish preliminary tasks and arranging initial assessments. In order to ensure that the track evolves into a realistic and relevant field of study, future tracks will need to accurately reflect the nature and scope of the actual E-Discovery task, or series of tasks, at hand.