Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Impact of
Judgmental Sampling
on Assisted Review
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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................. 3
Background.................................................................................................................. 4
Methodology.. ............................................................................................................... 6
Results.. ......................................................................................................................... 9
Conclusion....................................................................................................................11
precision recall
F1 = 2 precision + recall
Recall
error. A 6,559-document sample yields a 95 percent
confidence level with a +/- 1 percent margin of error.
Question #2
To evaluate the difference between judgmental
sampling and random sampling, we took a random
sample using a sample size of 2,152essentially
within the most efficient sample size range and
compared it to several different judgmental runs. To
obtain results for judgmental sampling, we developed
simple keyword searches that attempted to find
documents based on the TREC descriptions. Figure
All documents or communications that describe, discuss, refer to, destroy documents or delete
report on, or relate to the Companys engagement in structured documents or shred documents
commodity transactions known as prepay transactions. or delete files or remove files or
difficult 204 alteration or destruction or retention
or lack of retention or deletion or
All documents or communications that describe, discuss, refer to, shredding of documents or shred
report on, or relate to the Companys engagement in transactions evidence
that the Company characterized as compliant with FAS 140 (or its
predecessor FAS 125). (energy schedules or energy bids) and
(characterization or analysis or estimate
or estimates or forecast or forecasts
All documents or communications that describe, discuss, refer to, or descriptions or characterizations or
medium 205
report on, or relate to whether the Company had met, or could, evaluations or plans or plan or report
would, or might meet its financial forecasts, models, projections, or or reports or volume or geographic
plans at any time after January 1, 1999. location) and (energy load or energy
loads or load or loads)
All documents or communications that describe, discuss, refer to, financial condition or analyst coverage
report on, or relate to any intentions, plans, efforts, or activities difficult 206 or analyst rating or analyst coverage
involving the alteration, destruction, retention, lack of retention, or (impact w/20 relationship)
deletion, or shredding of documents or other evidence, whether in
hard-copy or electronic form. Fantasy football or football teams or
football team or football statistics
easy 207
or football statistic or football
All documents or communications that describe, discuss, refer to, performance
report on, or relate to energy schedules and bids, including but
not limited to, estimates, forecasts, descriptions, characterizations, bears or lions or giants or packers or
analyses, evaluations, projections, plans, and reports on the vikings or 49ers or falcons or rams or
volume(s) or geographic location(s) of energy loads. eagles or Dallas Cowboys or redskins
or cardinals or rams or ravens or browns
or steelers or bengals or patriots or
easy 207
All documents or communications that describe, discuss, refer dolphins or buffalo bills or NY jets or
to, report on, or relate to any discussion(s), communication(s), or N.Y. Jets or new york jets or chargers
contact(s) with financial analyst(s), or with the firm(s) that employ or seahawks or chiefs or raiders or colts
them, regarding (i)the Companys financial condition, (ii) analysts or houston texans or jaguars or titans
coverage of the Company and/or its financial condition, (iii) analysts or broncos
rating of the Companys stock, or (iv)the impact of an analysts
coverage of the Company on the business relationship between the
Figure 6
Company and the firm that employs the analyst.
Number of Documents
the keyword searches with no categorization. The
diamonds represent the number of documents to be
found in each of the TREC queries: numbers 201207.
The results show recall levels were extremely low
below 10 percentfor most queries when using only
a keyword search. Even when the queries were
improved with version two, recall remained well below
50 percent. Quite a bit of noise was generated. We
can see non-responsive documentsfalse positives Topic
blossomed for topic 204. Essentially, by relying on
keyword searching to pull the sample for this test, we Version 2 - Boolean Queries
added more wildcards to the queries. These queries
did retrieve more responsive documents. However,
Number of Documents
the wildcards are not always as specific as we would
like. Hence, these queries returned many non-
responsive documents.
Topic
Figure 7
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