Information retrieval experts H5 has always come across as a cross between a commercial information consulting business and a research university, talking as much about its people – “with professional expertise in linguistics, statistics, computer science, law, information technology, process engineering, and e-discovery” as the web site puts it – and its involvement in the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) protocols, as about its services.
It has now produced an application called the H5 Edge Classifier, which is designed to sit on top of an organisation’s existing search tools and integrate with them.
I know no more than appears on the page to which I have linked, and I only break my usual rule about merely passing on basic information – which any fool can do – because I learned about this too late before LegalTech to discover more. I hope to do that at LegalTech in New York next week, and will report back after that.
