Searching for Something?
Seek, find, search, discover—regardless of how you say it, acquiring the data, information and knowledge you need to help your case requires advanced tools that make the process easier rather than getting lost in the details itself. While typical Data Discovery and Review Tools enable you to find content, very few if any enable you to simultaneously classify, understand and retain the context of its implied meaning.
Content Context is King
Way back when, simply finding content was sufficient. Data is just data right? Mix the explosion of technology with the growing complexity of cases, and content (data/information) only brushes the surface of what you really need. It’s the context of the content of what was said, implied, perceived and/or understood that truly makes the difference.
That’s where XDD-AST comes in. With dual keyword and conceptual search intelligence working in parallel, Xact Data Discovery’s Advanced Search Tool (XDD-AST) provides relevant context where standard content leaves off.
As an integral part of its closed-loop Data Discovery and Management Tool service mix, XDD-AST provides corporations, law firms, and government agencies with the most advanced search features, functions and benefits available in today’s marketplace. XDD-AST enables clients to search large data sets via a unique blend of Keyword and Conceptual search logic working in tandem to acquire highly relevant data.
Working in parallel with its powerful Keyword Search logic, XDD-AST’s Conceptual Search intelligence analyzes the actual “context” of what was said and how the information was communicated or implied within a document itself—rather than locating only the “content” or “keyword” used within it. This advanced methodology provides users with extremely relevant search results because the results returned reflect the idea expressed by the search criteria, not just the words used.
Simultaneously searching by keywords and concepts provides the highest possible rate of relevant return. Results are illustrated adjacent to one another indexed by relevancy, accuracy and frequency, enabling clients to identify the most relevant documents from both search types quickly and efficiently.
Key Features, Benefits and Advantages
- Prevention of Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Information - increases users’ ability to locate privileged information by searching not only for specific words used but by the ideas expressed by them.
- Multi-Lingual and Cross-Lingual Text Analysis - eliminates any language limitations associated to analyzed data sets. Analysis, searching, categorization and taxonomy generation are all cross-lingual requiring no translation. Searches conducted in English return conversational similarities in multiple foreign languages including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, etc.
- Contextual Meaning - identifies alternate meanings or intentions based upon the context in which words or phrases are used.
- Automatic Summation - selects and displays “hit results” for the most relevant sentence within a document based upon the analysis of the topic addressed—negating the typical methodology of viewing only the first sentence in a document return list.
- Automatic Categorization - enables users to see a “first pass review” automatically by identifying and categorizing documents that appear to address similar topics.
- Automatic Taxonomy Generation - automatically groups documents by identified similarities or by conversational similarities.
- Manual Categorization - enables users to identify document examples that meet assigned category criteria and have AST “find similar documents”.
- Minimizes Obfuscation - identifies intentional or unintentional obfuscation (i.e. code words, technical jargon or industry specific references) relative to a subject matter via the tool’s conceptual search intelligence. The tool intelligently learns the language used as well as any specially created references to the subject matter.
- Addresses Synonomy and Polysemy - eliminates the possibility of guessing incorrectly as to how someone may describe something when writing a search term. The system searches for the meaning of the string, as well as the individual words, hence words that have the same or similar meaning are included in hit results.
- Sentiment Determination - intelligently identifies the document originators’ sentiment or “implied meaning” from the way it is conveyed within the document.
- Relationship Discovery - includes a unique pop-up “thesaurus-type” window that provides similar/related terms for unfamiliar or confusing content within the document, enabling users to discover relationships between words specifically used in the data set.
- Domain Agnostic Analysis - does not rely on any external information resources (i.e. dictionaries, thesaurus or special industry databases) to analyze data.
To obtain additional information regarding Xact Data Discovery’s XDD-AST Advanced Search Tool or to schedule an in-person or online demo, please contact us at 877.545.XACT or email us at xddast@xactdatadiscovery.com.
