E-Discovery: Use Predictive Tagging To Reduce Cost And Error
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 01:00  Editor: Please provide our
readers with some background on yourself and Recommind.
Carpenter: Recommind sprang out of academia about nine years
ago. A couple of professors from MIT, Brown University and
University of California at Berkeley developed a technology that
could discern themes and concepts within documents and relate
them to similar themes and concepts in other forms of text. This
was essentially a concept search tool, which was later applied
to e-discovery and compliance. It really boils down to
technology for conceptual search and automatic categorization of
content irrespective of individual keywords.  I have been at
Recommind for nearly two and half years. I am not only the
general counsel, but also run marketing and get involved in a
lot of customer engagements. I started my career at a law firm
in the Bay Area doing transactional work for startups as well as
litigation for small to mid-size compani