LexiQuest CEO Bruno Henry To Present At NYNMA's Venture Downtown 2001.

Business & Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001

LexiQuest, Inc., a provider of linguistic software for the management, retrieval and access of textual information, has been selected as one of 24 presenting companies at the prestigious New York New Media Association (NYNMA) Venture Downtown 2001 conference (www.venturedowntown.org) which provides attendees access to a unique community of venture capitalists and their carefully selected investment opportunities.

"We are proud to have been chosen for this opportunity to present our strong business model at New York's premier venture capitalist conference," said LexiQuest CEO Bruno Henry. "We look forward to sharing our unique offering with the some of the city's most influential entrepreneurs."

LexiQuest was handpicked by an esteemed committee of 40 New York-based venture capitalists, out of more than 300 emerging companies, as one of the most promising ventures in the forefront of technology.

Mr. Henry is scheduled to present an overview of LexiQuest, its competitive position and growth strategy, at 4:30 p.m. at the May 15 conference, which will take place at the Grand Hyatt at 42nd Street. LexiQuest will also demonstrate its linguistic solutions in the conference's exhibition area.

LexiQuest, Inc.

LexiQuest, Inc. is a provider of software for the management, retrieval and access of textual information using linguistic technology. LexiQuest software allows users to communicate with technology on their own terms by enabling computers to understand human language. Over 100 customers in markets including finance, IT, pharmaceutical and legal, employ LexiQuest technology. Customer applications include e-commerce, customer relationship management, search engine retrieval, corporate intranets and human resources. Among LexiQuest's customers are France Telecom, Chase Manhattan Bank, HotBot, BNP Paribas, General Electric, Arthur Andersen, Banque de France and The Public Broadcasting System (PBS).

Founded in Paris under the name Erli SA, LexiQuest is the fruition of more than two decades of landmark research and development in computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). LexiQuest's groundbreaking core technology was developed in cooperation with the European Economic Commission (EEC). Steering a consortium of 11 companies from member countries, LexiQuest defined the "GENELEX Standard," which evolved into the tools and applications that make LexiQuest today's premiere linguistic software. LexiQuest is headquartered in New York and Paris with offices in London and Brussels.