Issue tagging assigns documents to substantive categories defined for the matter, such as notice, causation, damages, or specific defenses. Systems learn from attorney-coded examples or apply issue definitions directly.
Tags support later retrieval by issue rather than by keyword.
Alternative Names:
Automated Issue Coding, Issue Classification
Why it Matters?
Issue coding is expensive manual work that becomes stale, since issues sharpen as a case develops and documents coded early against preliminary categories no longer match the theory at trial. Automated tagging can be rerun against revised issue definitions, which manual coding cannot practically be. The quality depends heavily on how precisely the issues are defined, and vague categories produce tags that no one trusts.
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