Arria NLG PLC Met Office adds NLG weather forecasts to website
February 10 2014 - 7:14AM
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Arria NLG PLC
10 February 2014
10 February 2014
Arria NLG plc
("Arria", the "Company" or the "Group")
The Met Office adds Natural Language Generation to its public
website
Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and
deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies,
announces that the Met Office is now offering Arria's NLG-generated
weather forecast narratives on its Met Invent website. The
forecasts, currently available for any of 5,000 geographic points
in the United Kingdom, can be viewed at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast-data2text
Arria has been working closely with the Met Office since 2009 to
utilize the power of Arria's NLG technologies to write on-demand,
site-specific weather forecasts for use by the public. In a recent
release on its Met Invent website, the Met Office added
NLG-authored narratives to its 5-day forecasts, combining the
familiar graphic presentation of weather data with NLG-authored
narratives for the first time. Further expansion to provide
NLG-authored forecasts for thousands or millions more specific
sites in the UK and worldwide is envisioned. This greatly increased
level of text forecasting granularity would be virtually impossible
using human-authored forecasts.
The Arria and Met Office science teams continue to collaborate
on the automation of weather reporting.
John Harrison, Head of Products of the Met Office, said,
"Natural Language Generation is an opportunity for the Met Office
to reach users with site-specific forecasts incorporating clear and
simple narrative guidance on the weather in their immediate locale.
NLG offers additional opportunities to improve the delivery of
weather information through automated reporting. We encourage the
public to try the 5-day forecast using automated narrative that is
now available on our Met Invent website and provide us with
feedback."
Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arria NLG
plc, commented that, "We are very pleased to be working with the
UK's national weather service and its science team to write
NLG-authored on-demand, site-specific weather forecasts. Natural
Language Generation automates expert analysis and reporting not
only in meteorology but in a variety of fields to make optimal use
of Big Data."
Contacts:
Arria NLG plc Tel +44 (0) 20 7100 4540
Stuart Rogers,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Allenby Capital, Nominated Adviser Tel: +44 (0) 20 3328 5656
and Broker
Jeremy Porter
Nick Naylor
James Reeve
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Walbrook, Financial PR and IR Tel: 44 (0) 20 7933 8792
Bob Huxford arria@walbrookpr.com
Guy McDougall
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The Met Office Tel: 44 (0) 1392 885 130
John Harrison
Head of Products
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Background
ARRIA NLG plc
Arria is a UK headquartered software development business. Its
core product, the Arria NLG Engine, originated from research at the
University of Aberdeen, a leading institution in the field of
Natural Language Generation. Arria's target is to be the global
leader in the development and deployment of mission critical, core
industrial, enterprise level NLG software technologies.
Its technology is already deployed in a mission critical
environment, monitoring large-scale industrial machinery located on
oil and gas production platforms in deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a
major global oil and gas company. It is also in use at the UK Met
Office.
The Met Office
The Met Office is the UK's National Weather Service.
The Met Office is a Trading Fund within the Department for
Business Innovation and Skills, operating on a commercial basis
under set targets.
As a world leader in providing weather and climate services, the
Met Office employ more than 1,800 at 60 locations throughout the
world. The Met Office is recognised as one of the world's most
accurate forecasters, using more than 10 million weather
observations a day, an advanced atmospheric model and a high
performance supercomputer to create 3,000 tailored forecasts and
briefings a day. These are delivered to a huge range of customers
from the Government, to businesses, the general public, armed
forces, and other organisations.
This includes the Public Weather Service (PWS), which provides
forecasts for the public to help them make informed decisions about
their day-to-day activities. The National Severe Weather Warning
Service is also a part of this, providing advance notice of weather
which could affect public safety.
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