ALIAS-I UNVEILS LINGPIPE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TOOLS.Alias-i, Inc. has unveiled LingPipe 1.0, its industrial-strength suite of linguistic tools, for research and commercial use. LingPipe, already in use by U.S. government intelligence analysts, is written in Java and operates on multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . "Anyone trying to process text at a deeper level than keyword search should have a look at LingPipe," said Breck Baldwin, president of Alias-i, Inc. "This is the kind of technology developers need for data mining over unstructured text, information extraction, or improving search sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. ." LingPipe processes text, exposing sentence boundaries, named entities and coreference Noun 1. coreference - the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent grammatical relation - a linguistic relation established by grammar relations in an API and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. output. For example, LingPipe can identify that "Britney Spears," "Ms. Spears" and "she" refer to the same person. It also pulls out information on the people, places, and organizations mentioned with her. It can be trained for domains as diverse as Hindi newswire and biological research publications. "With LingPipe, we have addressed a long standing need for robust, fast, well-documented and easy-to-integrate tools for core tasks in natural language processing applications," said Baldwin. "Execution speed was a major goal driving development of LingPipe," said Bob Carpenter, architect for the system. "Our government users receive up to 100,000 documents per day, and they need LingPipe to keep up. As a result, processing news feeds in real time is well within the capabilities of the system -- on a desktop PC no less." LingPipe is offered under an open source release or a commercial license. The open source release is for researchers, experimenters and companies comfortable with the requirements of open source licensing. For others, LingPipe is available under commercial licenses that entirely support proprietary use. "Our number one goal is getting LingPipe out into the community and in use -- open source is the best way to do that," said Baldwin. LingPipe 1.0 can be downloaded at http://www.alias-i.com/lingpipe. About Alias-i, Inc. Alias-i, Inc. was founded in 1999 (under the name Baldwin Language Technologies) as a result of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. government agency administered by the Department of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of). (DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. ) research contract under the TIDES (Trans-Lingual Information Detection Extraction and Summarization) program. Since that time, Alias-i has been assisting government analysts and researchers manage information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. with custom-developed software. Alias-i is based in Brooklyn, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Alias-i can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.alias-i.com/. For more information, call 718/290-9170. |
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