Language Computer Corporation
Encyclopedia
Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is a natural language processing
research company based in Richardson
, Texas
. The company develops a variety of natural language processing products, including software for question answering
, information extraction
, and automatic summarization
.
Since its founding in 1995, the low-profile company has landed significant United States Government contracts, with $8,353,476 in contracts in 2006-2008.
While the company has focused primarily on the government software market, LCC has also used its technology to spin off three start-up companies. The first spin off, known as Lymba Corporation, markets the PowerAnswer question answering product originally developed at LCC. In 2010, LCC's CEO, Andrew Hickl, co-founded two start-ups which made use of the company's technology. These included Swingly, an automatic question answering
start-up, and Extractiv, an information extraction
service that was founded in partnership with Houston, Texas-based 80legs
.
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
research company based in Richardson
Richardson, Texas
Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. The company develops a variety of natural language processing products, including software for question answering
Question answering
In information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...
, information extraction
Information extraction
Information extraction is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language...
, and automatic summarization
Automatic summarization
Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The product of this procedure still contains the most important points of the original text....
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Since its founding in 1995, the low-profile company has landed significant United States Government contracts, with $8,353,476 in contracts in 2006-2008.
While the company has focused primarily on the government software market, LCC has also used its technology to spin off three start-up companies. The first spin off, known as Lymba Corporation, markets the PowerAnswer question answering product originally developed at LCC. In 2010, LCC's CEO, Andrew Hickl, co-founded two start-ups which made use of the company's technology. These included Swingly, an automatic question answering
Question answering
In information retrieval and natural language processing , question answering is the task of automatically answering a question posed in natural language...
start-up, and Extractiv, an information extraction
Information extraction
Information extraction is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language...
service that was founded in partnership with Houston, Texas-based 80legs
80legs
80legs is a web crawling service that allows its users to create and run web crawls through its software as a service platform.-History:80legs was created by Computational Crawling, a company in Houston, TX. The company launched the private beta of 80legs in April 2009 and publicly launched the...
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