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Here's some information that I recently compiled about a natural language
processing product from IBM.

Jeff
INSOFT-L List Manager

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 Jeff Bowyer                         EMail:
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 >From Ian Hersey of IBM
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>
> We do have a system that both lemmatizes ("stems") and generates all
> inflected forms, and it is available for about 19 European languages.
> We also do lemmatization for Japanese.  The code is
> language-independent:  you just plug in the dictionary you need and go
> from there.  This same service also performs hyphenation (not for
> Japanese -- it isn't ever hyphenated) and spell-checking.
>
> This system is available for Windows, OS/2, AIX, VM and MVS.
>
> I should mention that our morphological processing only handles
> inflectional morphology:  "compute" can generate "computes", "computed"
> and "computing" (all forms of the verb "to compute"), but it will not
> generate "computer".  The "-er" and other affixes that change the part
> of speech are known as derivational morphology, and our service doesn't
> handle that area (yet).
>
> I'm not the one to give pricing information.  Please contact Brian
> Gessel at 301-803-2943 for that; he's our business person.  He can also
> provide you with an OEM fact sheet that lists all of the languages and
> sizes.
>

Regards,
Ian

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Cc: groen@vnet.IBM.COM, jjones@vnet.IBM.COM
Subject:  IBM natural language processing software
Status: OR

IBM developed the components described in Ian's note for use in internal
products such as DisplayWrite, TranslationManager, SearchVision,
BookManager, etc.  We are now considering licensing these components to
outside parties--we call it OEM licensing.  As of now, we do not yet
have generic pricing or terms and I cannot guarantee that we will have a
generic offering.  However, we are working on a few individual cases of
licensing our technologies; interested parties should contact me.

Since Ian sent that note our group has moved from Bethesda, Maryland to
Cary, North Carolina.  Ian has left IBM to work for Logos and I handle
customer queries.  Please note my internet address and new phone number
above.

If you have other questions about IBM offerings, I will try to answer as
much as I can, respecting IBM's need to keep plans confidential until
formally announced.

Best regards,