Extract from Tara Emory, Jeremy Pickens, & Wilzette Louis’s article “TAR 1 Reference Model: An Established Framework Unifying Traditional and GenAI Approaches to Technology-Assisted Review”
For over a decade, Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) has been used for document review in discovery, but now the emergence of GenAI has sparked discussions about its potential as an alternative. However, this article explains that that GenAI and TAR are complimentary, not conflicting. It introduces GenAI is a new review algorithm that can and should be applied according to established TAR workflows (specifically, the one known as “TAR 1”).
The article presents the algorithm-agnostic steps of this workflow through a TAR 1 Reference Model, and contains diagrams of the workflow tasks for traditional and GenAI algorithms. The reference model and workflow diagrams clearly demonstrate the similarities and differences in traditional and GenAI TAR workflows.
