- Acquired by Thomson Reuters, Apr 2007
- Raised $7.5M funding round, Oct 2003
- Raised $2.5M funding round, Apr 2004
About
ClearForest, acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2007, has joined forces with other NLP experts at Thomson Reuters to form the Text Metadata Services (TMS) Group to address the full spectrum of Thomson Reuters metadata requirements. The company employs state-of-the-art NLP technologies to detect events in narrative text, extract entities, classify topics, and identify meaningful connections between entities. The TMS Group employs a combination of machine-learning and rule-based techniques. When manually labeled training data is available, supervised machine-learning techniques such as logistic regression or SVM are used. In other cases, unsupervised techniques are used, and in combination with an advanced rule-based extraction mechanism, semi-supervised techniques bootstrap from the rules and use the topology of the data to complete the NLP task. Some of the algorithms work at the document level while others extract information and allow question answering by looking at a large corpus of documents.
Funding history · 2 rounds · $10.0M total
Q&A
- What is ClearForest's primary business?
- ClearForest provides Text Metadata Services, utilizing state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to detect events, extract entities, classify topics, and identify connections in narrative text.
- When was ClearForest founded?
- ClearForest was founded in January 1998.
- What is the current status of ClearForest?
- ClearForest was acquired by Thomson Reuters in April 2007 and is currently inactive as an independent entity.
- How much funding did ClearForest raise in total?
- ClearForest raised a total of $10,000,000 across its funding rounds.
- Which investors participated in ClearForest's October 2003 funding round?
- In October 2003, ClearForest received funding from investors including HarbourVest Partners.
- Which investors participated in ClearForest's April 2004 funding round?
- In April 2004, ClearForest received funding from investors including Walden Israel Venture Capital and Greylock.
- What technologies does ClearForest specialize in?
- ClearForest specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.
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External links
| linkedin.com/company/17795 |
Identifiers & details
| Founded | 1998-1 |
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| Employees (exact) | 31 |
| Status reason | Acquired (Inactive) by Thomson Reuters on Apr 2007 - closed due to acquisition |
Acquisitions & public offerings
Acquired by Thomson Reuters 2007-04
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Patents
| EPO | 2 |
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Publications (Crossref)
| Works | 6 |
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