Support Foreign Languages

eDiscovery in today’s rapidly globalizing economy must support European languages and complex languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean throughout the complete discovery lifecycle.

Stratify’s extensive experience supporting foreign languages, especially complex languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, has highlighted the need for well-honed best practices for data collection, extraction and processing to ensure that there is no data corruption or spoliation. The Stratify Legal Discovery™ service was designed to fulfill these requirements as the most easy-to-use, efficient eDiscovery solution available to law firms and corporate counsel.

Collect foreign language data correctly. Collecting foreign language documents requires an understanding of the nuances of working in foreign languages, especially multi-byte characters such as Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean, etc. If improper collection methodologies are used when collecting foreign data it can corrupt the data completely, i.e. remove file names, corrupt text within the files, and remove vital metadata.

Each complex language utilizes different encoding schemes to store and manage the data (in other words different ways for the computer to recognize and portray that language correctly when viewed or while searching). In-depth knowledge of different encoding schemes, and expertise in the tools necessary to appropriately handle them, is critical. The team collecting the data should be aware of this potential issue and take all precautions necessary to ensure that proper collection methods are used, and detailed documentation regarding the collection methods are kept.
Learn how to accurately collect and restore foreign language documents.

Avoid data spoliation. There are several programs regularly used in foreign countries that, if the eDiscovery vendor does not have experience and expertise in extracting, can cause delays in data processing or even data spoliation. Utilizing the correct encoding tools during extraction, as in data collection, is critical to the accurate extraction of text and metadata.
Find out how to correctly preserve foreign language documents and metadata.

Streamline processing. For all foreign languages detailed knowledge of encodings, word breaks, and stemming is critical for correct data processing. eDiscovery solutions should provide equivalent processing capabilities regardless of language. The application or system utilized to process, review and host the data containing all languages present within the data must be built on a Unicode platform enabling the proper rendering of documents containing foreign languages, protect and verify data integrity, and provide searching functionality in almost all languages.
Learn how to efficiently process and organize foreign language documents.

Native language search and review. Reviewers should be able to view foreign language documents, access them in native applications to view embedded metadata and utilize the Boolean search engine using foreign language terms. The ability to enter foreign language terms from any keyboard or system is critical to creating queries using foreign terms, as well as entering annotation or coding documents using foreign characters.
Discover how easy it is to search foreign language documents.

The Stratify Legal Discovery service provides complete support for European and complex languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Learn more about these key capabilities: