I'm a Director of Applied Research and Lead Research Scientist with TR Labs at Thomson Reuters working under Dr. Frank Schilder, Thomson Reuters' Sr. Director of Research. My most recent research has focused on legal analytics as well as question answering in the legal, tax and regulatory domains.

Through the summer of 2013, I was on assignment for two years with the Catalyst Lab at Thomson Reuters Global Resources (TRGR) in Baar, Switzerland, working under Dr. Peter Pircher. The Catalyst Lab focuses on innovation, collaboration and the leveraging of corporate technology resources, in addition to performing a number of 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 in the legal and tax domains
• Clustering News articles around associated events
• Contract Analytics
• Language Modeling for domain-specific documents

In the past, I've also investigated:

• E-Discovery
• Sentiment Analysis
• Document organization---object clustering and deduping---for large legal corpora
• Entity resolution and record matching in the context of very large databases.
• New search paradigms for highly structured data.

Commercialized past projects:

• Practical Law's Dynamic Tool Set
• Checkpoint Edge
• WestlawNext
• PeopleMap
• KeyCite

Contact Information:

• Thomson Reuters
  TR Labs
  610 Opperman Drive
  St. Paul, Minnesota 55123 USA
  
• E-mail: jack.conrad [AT] acm [DOT] org
• URL: https://jackgconrad.github.io/
  

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 Summer 2012 "Switzerland for Swaziland" ride through 6 European countries in 6 days (800km) to raise funds for the Young Heroes organization that assists AIDS orphans in Swaziland.

• Switzerland for Swaziland Ride (scroll to 2012)
• Wins 2012 Thomson Reuters Community Champion Award

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