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SPSS and Language Weaver Unveil Solution for Rapid Interpretation of Government Intelligence Documents
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Copyright SPSS, Inc. 2005
04/04/05

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CHICAGO, 04/04/05 — SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSS), a leading global provider of predictive analytics software, and Language Weaver, Inc., a leading global provider of statistical machine translation software (SMTS) for the automation of human language translation, today announced a jointly developed text mining solution that can quickly translate and analyze critical information from government intelligence documents. The Language Weaver translation technology will be offered as an option with the latest versions of SPSS’ text mining solutions, available now in the U.S. and Europe.

SPSS and Language Weaver announced their alliance in conjunction with the releases of the SPSS products LexiQuest Mine 3.1, a linguistics-based text mining application, and Text Mining for Clementine™ 3.1, which extends the Clementine data mining workbench to incorporate text data in analysis and predictive model building. These products combine with Language Weaver's recently announced 3.0 version of SMTS technology to deliver the ability to automatically translate Arabic and Chinese into English, and linguistically analyze the translated text to extract key concepts and gain deeper understanding.

Text Mining for Clementine and LexiQuest Mine also analyze Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish text.

"Government security agencies that face a glut of foreign language text documents critically need English translation and timely analysis of such documents, and often lack the personnel to do the translation work," said Olivier Jouve, SPSS vice president, data mining and text mining. "The SPSS-Language Weaver text mining solution will enable governments to automatically translate and rapidly understand the key information within intelligence documents and draw more accurate conclusions about future events and actions."

In addition to government applications, the SPSS text mining solutions and Language Weaver translation option will be offered to other industries for commercial use at a later date.

"This integration of our SMTS technology with SPSS' text mining and predictive analytic software opens up many exciting opportunities, not only in support of government security efforts, but also in the realm of medical technology breakthroughs and pharmaceutical research and development," said Bryce Benjamin, CEO of Language Weaver. "We look forward to working with SPSS to turn these possibilities into realities."