Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters Professional
Barak Pridor, Clearforest - a Thomson Reuters Markets company

"We discuss some current thinking around the use of machine extraction and resolution to deliver what we call 'Intelligent Information'. Such information is tailored to a user's underlying task, and must be derived automatically from underlying content sources. We describe a platform called ClearForest Tags, which performs state of the art entity, fact and event extraction, and illustrate its utility with some commercial use cases.  We also describe an entity resolution toolkit called Dexter/Concord, which is capable of both mapping named entities to authority files and merging or updating database records.  We supply some technical details of these fully implemented and deployed systems, as well as describing plans to more tightly integrate them."

Peter Jackson- Chief Scientist Thomson Reuters Professional

Peter Jackson is chief scientist at the Professional Division of Thomson Reuters with responsibility for corporate research and development.  He is a seasoned technology executive with a background that includes 29 years experience in R&D, the last 13 of which have been spent in the online information business. He has a proven track record of working with new product development and strategic marketing functions to deliver state-of-the-art applications that generate new revenues. His specialty lies in the design and delivery of innovative platforms and novel solution components for document retrieval, text categorization and information extraction technologies. Peter Jackson studied Human Psychology at the University of Aston in Birmingham and completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the Leeds University (UK).

Barak Pridor - CEO of Clearforest, a Thomson Reuters Markets company

Mr. Pridor brings extensive management experience in technology companies. At ClearForest he has overall responsibility for the company's strategic business direction, corporate finances and executive staffing. Prior to joining ClearForest in January 2000, Mr. Pridor spent 9 years with Tecnomatix Technologies in Israel (NASDAQ: TCNO). He held numerous management positions in technology, business development and marketing. Mr. Pridor last served as General Manager in Tecnomatix. Mr. Pridor has a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University in Israel and an MBA from the INSEAD International Business School in France.