Learning from Litigation: Graphs for Retrieval and Reasoning in eDiscovery

Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) requires identifying relevant documents from vast collections for legal production requests.While artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have improved document review efficiency, current methods still struggle with legal entities, citations, and complex legal artifacts.To address these challenges, we introduce DISCOvery Graph (DISCOG), an emerging system that integrates knowledge graphs for enhanced document ranking and classification, augmented by LLM-driven reasoning.DISCOG outperforms strong baselines in F1score, precision, and recall across both balanced and imbalanced datasets.In real-world deployments, it has reduced litigation-related document review costs by approximately 98%, demonstrating significant business impact.

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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-industry.46
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Artificial Intelligence in Law
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Learning from Litigation: Graphs for Retrieval and Reasoning in eDiscovery

Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Sumit Pai, Tim Weninger, Sounak Lahiri
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Learning from Litigation: Graphs for Retrieval and Reasoning in eDiscovery

Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Sumit Pai, Tim Weninger, Sounak Lahiri
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Abstract

Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) requires identifying relevant documents from vast collections for legal production requests.While artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have improved document review efficiency, current methods still struggle with legal entities, citations, and complex legal artifacts.To address these challenges, we introduce DISCOvery Graph (DISCOG), an emerging system that integrates knowledge graphs for enhanced document ranking and classification, augmented by LLM-driven reasoning.DISCOG outperforms strong baselines in F1score, precision, and recall across both balanced and imbalanced datasets.In real-world deployments, it has reduced litigation-related document review costs by approximately 98%, demonstrating significant business impact.

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