I'm a Lead Research Scientist who until recently has worked with the Corporate Research & Development group at Thomson Reuters, under Dr. Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters' Vice President and Chief Research Scientist and Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, Thomson Reuters' Vice President of Research. My most recent research focused on question answering, document clustering and e-discovery.

In mid-August, 2011, I transferred to the Catalyst Lab within Thomson Reuters Global Resources (TRGR) in Baar, Switzerland, working under Dr. Peter Pircher. The Catalyst Lab focuses on innovation, collaboration and the levering of corporate technology resources, in addition to performing various research functions for the company.

I'm a Computer Science graduate of the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. My advisor was Dr. W. Bruce Croft, Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) within the Department of Computer Science.

• M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, USA, 1994.
• Visiting Instructor at the East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, CHINA, 1990-91.
• M.A. in English/Linguistics at the University of British Columbia--Vancouver, CANADA, 1990.
• Cert. in European Studies in Education at the University of Minnesota, London, ENGLAND.
• B.S., Summa Cum Laude, in Electrical Engineering at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

I've recently worked on:

• Question Answering
• Document organization---object clustering and deduping---for large legal corpora
• E-Discovery

In the past, I've also investigated:

• Sentiment Analysis
• Entity resolution and record matching in the context of very large databases.
• New search paradigms for highly structured data.

Commercialized past projects:

• WestlawNext
• PeopleMap
• KeyCite

• Thomson Reuters
  Research & Development
  610 Opperman Drive
  St. Paul, Minnesota 55123 USA
  
• E-mail: jack.g.conrad AT thomsonreuters DOT com
• URL: http://labs.thomsonreuters.com/People/Research-Staff#Jack_Conrad

Former lives:

• Kingdom of Swaziland, Ekukhanyeni High School---math and science instructor
  (Peace Corps)
• Republic of Togo, Lycée Kara---professeur de mathématiques
  (Corps de la Paix)

News on Thomson Reuters' support for the Books for Africa Program and the Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative:

• Books for Africa and the Rule of Law Collaboration