He led the research projects behind Term-based Topic Identification, the Term Mapping System, the NEXIS Company Indexing and NetOwl Indexing technologies behind SmartIndexing, Searchable LEAD and the Fact Extraction Tool Kit. He also conceived Company Dossiers and Trend Analysis. He collaborated with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania on two projects. His current research activities and interests include applying knowledge discovery and data mining technologies to text-based content, question answering technology and automatic summarization. Mark also scouts new and emerging technologies at numerous conferences, workshops and third party technology companies (including more than 100 companies in 2001 alone).