Paper ID: 2305.04237

Opening the TAR Black Box: Developing an Interpretable System for eDiscovery Using the Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network

Charles Courchaine, Ricky J. Sethi

This foundational research provides additional support for using the Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network as a classification algorithm in the TAR domain. While research opportunities exist to improve recall performance and explanation, the robust recall results from this study and the proof-of-concept demonstration of If-Then rules for tf-idf vectorization strongly substantiate that a Fuzzy ARTMAP-based TAR system is a potentially viable explainable alternative to "black box" TAR systems.

Submitted: May 7, 2023