Why It Matters
Much of the AI in eDiscovery, contract analytics and litigation analytics is classic machine learning: it classifies, ranks and predicts rather than writing new text. It is often more predictable and easier to validate than generative AI.
Related Terms
- TAR (technology-assisted review)
- Using machine learning to rank or classify documents for review in eDiscovery, so people review the most likely relevant documents first or not at all.
- NLP (natural language processing)
- The field of computing that deals with understanding and producing human language, from finding names and dates in a contract to answering questions.
- LLM (large language model)
- The type of AI model behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and most legal AI assistants, trained on very large amounts of text to predict and generate language.
General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.