Preventing Litigation

Chapter 14

Summary: Textual ETL from an Architectural Perspective

The discussions beginning with Chapter 10 have been at a more technical level, to better explain Textual ETL and how an early warning system would work. There is nothing wrong with those discussions and they are necessary. However, to provide a better perspective, let’s stand back and look at the larger picture.

This chapter is a higher level architectural perspective of the dynamics of what is required to implement this system.

Filtering Data

From a higher perspective, when you look at ingesting text and then ­reading and processing it, the process amounts to a large filtering process.

There is a lot of textual data to be digested, so much so that processing it manually is ...