Foundations and TrendsR © in Information Retrieval

E-discovery refers generally to the process by which one party (e.g., the plaintiff) is entitled to “discover ” evidence in the form of “electronically stored information ” that is held by another party (e.g., the defendant) and that is relevant to some matter that is the subject of civil litigation (i.e., what is commonly called a “lawsuit”). This survey describes the emergence of the field, identifies the information retrieval issues that arise, reviews the work to date on this topic, and summarizes major open issues