NEW YORK, March 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Arria NLG
(LSE: NLG) a technology leader in Natural Language Generation
("NLG"), is to be granted a patent on its Method And Apparatus
For Referring Expression Generation from the US Patent and
Trademark Office, its seventh to date. The Company's Chief
Scientist, Prof. Ehud Reiter,
created this important new feature of the Arria NLG Platform.
The new patent covers an essential component of Arria NLG's
products for information analysis and delivery. The Company's
products automate the real-time analysis and delivery of reports,
whilst also generating language that follows intuitive rules for
how humans communicate and comprehend information.
The innovations embodied in the new patent allow a report's
second or subsequent mention of a complex machine, device or
process to be expressed in a word or two, rather than by its full
name. For example, the operator of an electrical power plant, who
receives the actionable intelligence contained in an Arria NLG
report, is not required to read in full repeated references to the
same components of a particular machine after the report
establishes that this component of this machine is being
discussed.
In addition, when using referring expression generation, the
patented system can flexibly describe details such as a high
temperature warning on a rotor shaft to an engineer. For example,
the system is able to recite: "temperature is high," when a
previous sentence has provided the reader with the necessary
context to understand that the text is referring to a rotor shaft
on a specific machine. The system likewise intelligently
adapts the expression to recite: "rotor shaft temperature is high,"
when a previous sentence lacked sufficient context. In each
instance, the system can adapt sentences as the report is generated
so as to eloquently describe components and subcomponents of a
complex machine.
This seventh Arria NLG patent covers the generation of referring
expressions not only within the Company's advanced NLG systems
but also in more rudimentary systems relying on the infilling of
templates (akin to mail-merge) that are in common use.
Arria NLG's patents and patent applications cover critical NLG
processes that the Company currently applies to innovative
applications delivered to its growing list of global clients, as
well as to a range of SaaS-delivered packaged applications that are
in development for a number of markets. The patents also apply to
the Company's proprietary Software Development Toolkit ("SDK").
Arria NLG's expanding patent portfolio strengthens its plan to
become the global leader in automating data analysis and
information delivery in any industrial or consumer setting.
Stuart Rogers, Chairman and
Chief Executive of Arria NLG, stated: "We believe that there
are two key areas where this patent raises the bar in the quality
of 'humanized' text generated from NLG technology. Firstly, anyone
who wants to build an NLG system that communicates with users in a
human manner is likely to need to implement the technology that
this patent covers into their systems. Secondly, anyone wanting the
Internet of Things to successfully talk naturally to users will
likely need this technology.
The real value that the Internet of Things creates is at the
intersection of gathering data and leveraging it. All the
information gathered by all the sensors in the world isn't worth
very much if there isn't an infrastructure in place to analyze it
in real time and interpret it in real language. The Arria NLG
Platform delivers this value.
To learn more about Arria NLG, visit arria.com
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