An efficient near-duplicate clustering technology can expedite the time of review during electronic discovery by grouping similar documents together — and help cut down costs. The U.S. Department of Justice will continue to rely on Syngence Software’s near-duplicate software SynthetixND by renewing the license it began in 2007 with the Laguna Niguel, Calif.-based company.
SynthetixND creates a “digital fingerprint” of a document by applying linguistic terms used in a set of documents to identify and group documents that are similar but not fully identical — near-duplicates that a traditional de-duping program would miss, the company states. Near-duplicate clustering groups together not only different drafts but different forms of the same document — this can include emails that different custodians generated, PDF versions of Word documents, fax copies matched to the original, electronic records of printed paper documents that have been scanned and made searchable with optical character recognition software.
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