Pitt@TREC08: An Initial Study of Collaborative Information Behavior in E-Discovery

Abstract

The University of Pittsburgh team participated in the interactive task of Legal Track in TREC 2008. They designed an experiment to investigate the collaborative information behavior (CIB) of the group of people working on the e-discovery task provided by Legal Track in TREC 2008. Through the experiment, they identified three major characteristics of CIB in e-discovery: (1) frequent communication is an essential component of CIB, (2) the division of labor is common in the collaborative task of e-discovery, and (3) it is important for collaborators to maintain an "awareness" of each other's activities to make sure the collaboration goes well. Based on these insights, the team proposes a set of essential technologies and functions for retrieval systems that support CIB. Overall, collaborative information retrieval (CIR) systems should support the following collaborative information behaviors: verbal communication, text exchanging, synchronous collaboration, and asynchronous collaboration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA512739

Entities

People

  • Daqing He
  • Jon Walker
  • Yi-ling Lin
  • Zhen Yue

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Best Practices
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Situational Awareness
  • Splitting
  • Teamwork

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Information Retrieval

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval