Second International Workshop on
Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information
in Discovery Proceedings (DESI II)
Wednesday June 25, 2008
University College London, U.K.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Attfield/desi/
Call for Papers
Legal applications of search technology have been of longstanding interest,
and indexing techniques for legislation, regulations, and case law are
highly developed. While work on those topics continues, interest in a new
class of digital evidence management applications, often referred to as
"E-Discovery," is increasing rapidly, in part because electronically stored
information (ESI) has become a pervasive component of many routine
commercial and government activities in many countries around the world.
These applications raise important new challenges for the legal search
community, including:
- New types of materials, including informal language (e.g., in
instant messaging), extreme content diversity (as is common in
email), and other media (e.g., voicemail, photographs, video).
- Unprecedented requirements for scalable work processes, with
million-document collections today, and billion-document collections
likely not too far in the future.
- Management of a complex array of interlocking rights and privileges
(e.g., personal privacy, attorney-client privilege, and executive
privilege in government).
No existing community possesses the expertise to attack these challenges
alone, so our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners with
relevant expertise to help shape the research agenda to address these new
challenges.
In 2007, participants from five continents gathered together for the first
DESI Workshop in California.
Participation in the Second DESI Workshop is invited from all interested
parties, including e-discovery firms, legal practitioners, and researchers
in information retrieval, human language technology, digital forensics,
natural language processing, text classification, archival science,
information studies, legal sensemaking and human-computer interaction
worldwide. We expect to invite an even balance between practitioners and
researchers, and to achieve the best possible balance across national
settings for the practitioners and across research communities for the
researchers.
Submissions:
Two types of written contributions are invited:
Original papers describing research or practice. Research papers should not
exceed 10 pages in length, and shorter papers are welcomed (no minimum
length is specified). Accepted papers will be included in the working notes
of the workshop that will be distributed in print to participants and posted
on the Web.
Brief (typically 1-2 page) position papers describing individual interests,
for inclusion (without review) in the working notes and on the web site.
Brief descriptions of this type are particularly valuable when bringing
together diverse research communities. Additionally, these papers can help
with our selection of discussion leaders and panelists.
Please submit original research papers and statements of position by email
to [log in to unmask]
To encourage delegates to contribute position papers (at least),
registration is limited to those submitting papers until 10th May, after
which registration will be open.
Important Dates (all 2008):
May 9 Deadline for paper submissions
May 26 Notification of acceptance for research papers
June 6 Deadline for camera ready version of accepted research papers
June 25 Second DESI Workshop, London UK
June 26-27 International Digital Evidence Conference, London UK
Organising Committee:
Simon J. Attfield, University College London
Jason R. Baron, National Archives and Records Administration
Stephen Mason, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland
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