Thumbs Up for ReadCube Web Reader
December 14, 2011
Google’s new news reader, which strikes us as a “me too” type product, is getting lots of attention.
We’ve found a nifty tool that lets you interact with your PDFs. Designed for researchers, ReadCube Web Reader lets you highlight and add notes to PDF documents. It also helps you find articles through a search feature that accesses Google Scholar, PubMed, or any library of documents that you import. I could wish for more search options, but perhaps they’re on the way; it’s still in beta, after all.
The application learns your interests over time, and will suggest online articles published within a specified time frame. It will even go find more information about your article, if it’s available.
The folks at Labtiva, who developed the software, aim to “make the world of research more accessible and connected.” On the startup’s about page, we learned from the write up:
Our mission is to improve the pace of scientific discovery. ReadCube was started by a researcher and a computer scientist to address the challenges faced by scientists. What started in a Harvard College dorm room as a tool to help organize and find scientific papers quickly turned into something rather more.
Now the team has expanded beyond the Boston area and hopes their innovation will help researchers around the globe.
I downloaded the beta version and played with it a bit. It’s intuitive and sports a clean design. I’m curious to see what it will decide my interests are after I’ve imported some more articles. It’s definitely handy to be able to highlight and make notes right on the PDF, rather than creating a separate Word document.
Kudos to the Labtiva team; let’s see where they go from here.
Cynthia Murrell, December 12, 2011
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Flock of Articles Provides Search Summary
September 18, 2011
Chris Dale’s rundown of the latest tech news is quite useful. “A Flock of Articles on Computer-Assisted Document Review,” will quickly get you up to date on recent developments. Half a dozen articles are highlighted, with commentary provided for each.
Here’s Dale’s commentary:
Look next at an article in Legal Technology News by Farrah Pepper, of counsel at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher called Robot Review: Will predictive coding win the trust of the courts? Like Judge Peck in the speech reported in my article, Farrah Pepper reviews some of the cases and learned papers.
The issue comes to the surface as Recommind applied for a patent for its predictive coding technology. He asserts:
Predictive coding software providers claim they can automate much of the document review process, with human guidance. Documents can be prioritized into likely order of importance, typically based on a “learning set” of documents coded up front by a subject matter expert, they explain. That essentially creates a rebuttable presumption of relevance for other coding that can be tested via sampling and revised if necessary. Then, the argument goes, the attorneys leading the case can dig into the substance a whole lot faster.
Keep an eye on the matter as it continues to develop. The courts will have to decide on the issue one way or another, as technology will continue to push.
Emily Rae Aldridge, September 18, 2011
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