Thomson Reuters “has work underway around artificial intelligence and predictive analytics” for its Westlaw legal data service, but isn’t using Watson

John Shaughnessy, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, at Thomson Reuters, publishers of the Westlaw legal data service, today answered a query from Etopia News about their use of IBM Watson to analyze and add value to their vast data bases of legal information.

“You had a question regarding Westlaw and Watson,” Shaughnessy said in voice mail he left this morning.  “We do have work underway around artificial intelligence and predictive analytics.  It’s all centered on our own search engine development, but we do not have anything underway with IBM and Westlaw.”