(1 November, 2007, Cambridge, UK) Linguamatics Ltd, the leader in natural language processing (NLP) for life science research, held its Users Conference in Boston, MA, October 18-19. Participants from top pharma and life science organizations presented insights into working with Linguamatics technology and shared best practice for mining text to inform business-critical decision-making. The agenda featured speakers from a range of Linguamatics customers including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Biogen Idec. Further highlights included an expert panel discussion of current challenges and opportunities in literature mining, and live hands-on workshops enabling attendees to deepen their understanding of problem solving using I2E.
Conference attendees were given the first view of the new I2E 3.0 software, providing a flexible text mining environment to address diverse knowledge discovery problems. Attendees learned how pre-defined smart queries can enable sophisticated searching with minimum effort, how enhanced results reporting provides a rapid overview of extracted information, and how the new admin GUI streamlines user and system management. The software will be released at the end of the year.
Feedback from attendees for the new capabilities in 3.0 was highly encouraging with comments such as: "I2E 3.0 checks all the boxes in terms of our requirements, and more...", "The new querying capabilities add significant power - I can't wait", "Multiple querying is great", "The new admin interface is a good facilitator that will expand options for end users", "Impressive!".
"Our Users Conference is a highlight of 2007, a year that has seen significant development at Linguamatics in terms of business growth and technology achievement," said Roger Hale, COO and Co-founder of Linguamatics. "The conference gave us an excellent opportunity to listen to the Linguamatics community, important for ensuring that we continue to deliver the right capabilities for effective decision support."
ABOUT LINGUAMATICS LTD
Linguamatics helps organizations to maximize the value derived from information resources through effective deployment of innovative natural language processing (NLP) based technology. The versatile interactive information extraction system, I2E, helps organizations to do much more than simply cope with vast quantities of information. Its unique combination of search and text mining helps organizations to turn this information into a competitive advantage. From life sciences and healthcare to business intelligence, from media analysis to security, users mine large collections of documents, extracting relevant facts and relationships from content such as scientific papers, news feeds, patents, or business reports. Linguamatics has a rapidly growing user community with I2E in production use at most top-10 pharma companies. The company was founded in 2001, and is based in Cambridge, UK.
ABOUT I2E
Linguamatics’ flagship I2E technology combines four key capabilities to enable users to rapidly extract relevant facts and relationships from large document collections:
I2E features a client-server architecture built using industry-standard Java and C for use by single users, project teams, or in enterprise-wide deployments. Organizations have full control over source content to be mined, definition of queries and results output.
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Judith Bandy
Linguamatics Ltd.
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