The Best-Kept Secrets to Using Keyword Search Technologies  Part
2 – Building Structured Searches  By Philip Sykes and Richard
Finkleman    In Part 1, we covered the two major indexing and
search engines most often used in eDiscovery solutions, dtSearch
and Lucene. Now we will look at using a structured methodology
for building searches. We will work with dtSearch syntax, but
the same approach applies when using a Lucene-based eDiscovery
solution.  Proposed Search Terms  When starting with a set of
proposed search terms, the first step is to organize and clean
up the list. In constructing your searches, it is recommended
that, unless you work with a case-sensitive index, you use lower
case for the search terms and upper case for the Boolean
operators to differentiate them. In this phase, identify:    •
Similar sets of terms that can be efficiently combined. For
example, if there are several AND searches containing common
words like "contract AND sales," "contract AND modification," or
"executed AND contract,"