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The history of Thomson Reuters in applied artificial intelligence

This infographic provides a timeline of our rich history in leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to power the performance of professionals in the legal, tax, risk, and compliance fields.

  • Applied artificial intelligence timeline at Thomson Reuters

    Thomson Reuters has a long history as a leader in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), with increasingly sophisticated capabilities improving search and expanding analytics through a series of product advances. These advancements, coupled with our proprietary content and editorial expertise, deliver comprehensive, accurate, and trusted insights that power the performance of professionals in the legal, tax, risk, and compliance fields.

    Backed by 30+ years of innovating with AI and language models

    1991
    Howard Turtle, Chief Scientist, helps found one of the first R&D groups at Thomson Reuters

    1992
    Westlaw is Natural (WIN) becomes the first commercially available search engine with probabilistic rank retrieval

    1996
    History assistant, a large-scale natural language processor (NLP) that analyzes case law documents, is introduced

    2001
    CARE leverages machine learning to help classify legal, tax, and financial documents for large taxonomies

    2003 to 2005
    ResultsPlus, document recommendation
    Firm360, judge and attorney name linking

    2006 to 2008
    Dexter, ML-based entity extraction
    Concord, statistics-based public records linking and resolution

    2010
    Westlaw Next leverages a wide array of AI and ML to deliver a new standard for legal research

    2010 to 2018
    Various AI-supported products such as Reuters Insider, NewsPlus, Checkpoint – Broadside, Quick Check, and social data platform (SDP)

    2018
    Westlaw Edge leverages AI to deliver advanced search and analytics in legal research

    2020
    Legal Tracker, an AI-supported invoice review process augmentation tool, is introduced

    2022
    ThoughtTrace, a leader in AI-driven contract analysis, is acquired by Thomson Reuters

    2023
    SurePrep, a leader in AI-driven document ingestion for tax workflow automation, is acquired by Thomson Reuters

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