Clearpoint Agency Selected by Language Weaver as Public Relations Agency of Record.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004 Clearpoint Agency Inc. today announced that Language Weaver Language Weaver is a Los Angeles, California based company that was founded by USC's Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, marketing a new software product that learns a language by itself by reading a lot of text (extracting probabilistic translation dictionaries, patterns, and rules), Inc., a Los Angeles-based software company developing statistical machine translation Statistical machine translation (SMT) is a machine translation paradigm where translations are generated on the basis of statistical models whose parameters are derived from the analysis of bilingual text corpora. software (SMTS SMTS Space and Missile Tracking System SMTS Senior Member of Technical Staff SMTS Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society (Canada) SMTS So Much to Say (Dave Matthews Band song) ), has retained Clearpoint Agency as its public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most agency of record. Language Weaver signed the contract with Clearpoint after a successful six-month trial. Clearpoint Agency, an award-winning PR and marketing communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales firm serving technology, retail and service industry clients, was selected by Language Weaver to develop the company's media and analyst relations after a review of several firms in California. Since initiating its efforts, Clearpoint has secured Language Weaver coverage in numerous media outlets including USA Today, PC Magazine, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , ZD Net, Washington Technology, The San Diego Union-Tribune and the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review, which named Language Weaver's technology one of the "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World." Language Weaver also was named Company of the Year in the start-up category by attendees at Larta Institute's Venture Forum, held in Los Angeles in April. In retaining Clearpoint, Language Weaver cited the agency's proactive style, its strong track record with technology-based companies and its previous achievements working with In-Q-Tel portfolio companies. Clearpoint was originally recommended to Language Weaver by the In-Q-Tel funded company, Mohomine, which had worked with Clearpoint before it was acquired by Kofax. In-Q-Tel Inc. is the venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to support promising emerging technologies. "Clearpoint does a terrific job for us," said Bryce Benjamin, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Language Weaver. "They found Language Weaver immediate national news coverage and the media blitz hasn't stopped since. The team at Clearpoint is masterful at discerning the essential elements of our company's message and crisply communicating that message to others." Language Weaver's team at Clearpoint, led by PR and marketing veteran Beth Walsh, is continuing its public relations program positioning Language Weaver as an innovator in automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation technology. Clearpoint promotes the company to both government and commercial sectors through an integrated plan of public relations, marketing communications and trade show efforts. About Language Weaver Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique approach to automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation technology that resulted from twenty person-years of invention and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its first round of funding included investment from the TechCoastAngels, Athenaeum ath·e·nae·um also ath·e·ne·um n. 1. An institution, such as a literary club or scientific academy, for the promotion of learning. 2. A place, such as a library, where printed materials are available for reading. Fund and Sulphur Creek Ventures. The company has 15 patents pending on its SMTS technology. On the Net: www.languageweaver.com. About Clearpoint Agency Inc. Clearpoint Agency Inc. is an award-winning public relations and marketing firm with offices in Solana Beach, Calif. Principals Bonnie Shaw and Beth Walsh founded the agency to serve the PR, marketing communications and event management needs of companies in technology, retail and service industries. On the Net: www.clearpointagency.com. |
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