Autonomy Introduces Search Process Validation Module

Autonomy Corporation announced the release of Search Process Validation (SPV). SPV offers conceptual search as well as all other legacy search methods, including keyword search. SPV helps users determine the most suitable search methodology to employ at each stage, and guides them through the process by providing transparent logic and auditable results for any of the search methodologies used. SPV mitigates risk and brings added defensibility to the search process throughout the entire discovery lifecycle. Autonomy's core infrastructure software product, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), powers the SPV module in all Autonomy eDiscovery solutions. IDOL embraces all legacy search methods such as keyword, Boolean, metadata, and parametric and others. SPV provides an audit trail, highlighting both conceptual clusters and keywords in the result set as well as any user profiling, entity extraction or metadata elements. Autonomy's Search Process Validation module offers features including: Dynamic Search Tracer - SPV keeps a running, audit trail of the user's search history, with the ability to create snapshots of any (or all) of the relevant steps and results for future re-use and collaboration with colleagues; Advanced Term List Analytics - SPV provides researchers with intuitive statistical and visual tools for determining the impact of search modifications. Configurable views provide representations of term frequencies, stem variants and wildcard expansions; Search Audit - The audit provides such details as repositories searched, search terms used and omitted, query expansions, concepts involved, and the analytics used to arrive at the final result set; Search Journey - SPV delineates the logical path that the search engine took to arrive at a given set of results. It reveals the key concept terms that were found, along with pertinent metadata, repositories searched and the relevancy threshold reached; Real-time Validation Sampling. The search terms used, the percentage of files selected for sampling, methodology used in sampling, and other relevant factors are captured and tracked for validation reporting; Defensibility Reporting - Data statistics, validation, and term list refinement reports can be output for the Meet and Confer, tracked over time, or packaged for final results production, with the ability to include concept and custodian mapping features as required. http://www.autonomy.com