Arria NLG PLC New Data Science Framework Software Release
April 24 2014 - 2:01AM
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Arria NLG PLC
24 April 2014
24 April 2014
Arria NLG plc
("Arria" or the "Company")
Arria to release new Data Science Framework software at
co-hosted Pumps and Pipes event in Houston
Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and
deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies,
announces it will co-host a special Data Science event in Houston
on April 30, 2014, where Chief Scientist Professor Ehud Reiter will
release novel Data Science Framework software that provides
improved knowledge capture of subject matter expertise into
artificial intelligence software. Pumps and Pipes, who are
co-hosting the event with Arria, is a unique Houston-based
technology interchange between the Oil and Gas, Medicine and
Aerospace industries. The event will be attended by both oil and
gas engineers and medical clinicians, the two professions that will
be the first to benefit from the new software.
The Arria NLG Engine is a cutting-edge technology that works
with big data sets and disparate structured data to generate
natural language narratives that support faster and higher quality
expert decision-making. Initial applications of the technology that
are already live include an on-demand site-specific UK weather
reporting service as well as oil and gas facilities surveillance in
the Gulf of Mexico. Arria's new Data Science Framework enhances
these solutions by allowing for easier connection to disparate big
data sets, higher quality analytics, and faster knowledge capture
of subject matter expertise into operational software.
Professor Reiter says Arria's Data Science Framework has arisen
from requests from both engineers and doctors who want to fill the
gap in the big data industry by streamlining the twin processes of
capturing the knowledge of their subject matter experts and
applying this knowledge to make sense of multiple data streams. "We
hear the same message from Chief Petroleum Engineers in the Middle
East as we do from cardiovascular surgeons in the USA: subject
matter expertise is their most valued asset. So by reducing the
time it takes to capture this expertise and the time it takes to
make sense of the data, our new Data Science Framework speeds up
the development of applications that automate insights and generate
narratives, adding an unprecedented capability for faster and
higher quality decision support."
Professor Reiter, who co-wrote the definitive book on building
Natural Language Generation systems in the 1990s with his Arria
colleague, Dr Robert Dale, says, "When you look at what else is out
there in both medicine and oil and gas, the only significant
contender we keep bumping up against is IBM Watson. But IBM Watson
is a very expensive product that aims to provide a universal
solution to the general problem of answering questions, whereas our
goal is to help doctors and engineers make faster and higher
quality decisions by giving them natural language explanations of
what's going on. We go beyond answering questions to tell the
stories that are hidden in the data."
Alan Lumsden, founder of Pumps and Pipes, Professor &
Chairman Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Director
Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at the Methodist
Hospital in Houston, says "We are delighted to have Professor
Reiter speaking at a Pumps and Pipes event where our motto is 'the
solution to my problem is in someone else's toolkit'. I have had a
look inside Arria's toolkit and I'm sure if our members can unlock
the value hidden in our data the Arria way our industries will be
transformed. Data Science is the new frontier and I'm convinced,
one day we will look back and wonder how we ever functioned without
natural language generation technology assisting our
decision-making."
For further information, please visit www.arria.com or
contact:
Arria NLG plc Tel +44 (0) 20 7100 4540
Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
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Allenby Capital, AIM 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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