Cognition

May 07, 2008

Cognition Technologies recognized by KMWorld as one of "100 that matter"

Cognition Technologies, which focuses on Semantic natural language processing technology, was named by KMWorld as one of the top 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management for 2008.

Says Cognition CEO Scott Jarus:

"One of the biggest barriers to building a natural language understanding system is to build the semantic map and the dictionary with details of the syntactic behavior of words (i.e. how words behave within context). Cognition's team has spent more than 20 years building this capability into Cognition's Semantic NLP for the English language ... and our technology is commercially available today!"

Semantic search and NLP technologies seem to have arrived - they are generating a lot of buzz lately. In addition to mainstays Hakia and Powerset, there is a spate of new entries, including Cognition, BooRah and eeggi. We will be reviewing some of these new alternate search engines on this blog in the near future.

Congratulations, Scott and the Cognition team!

For more information:

Tad Benson
VP of Marketing
Cognition Technologies, Inc.
(310) 641-7200 x214
tad.benson@cognition.com

(Los Angeles) May 6, 2008 -- Cognition Technologies (www.cognition.com), the creator of Cognition's Semantic NLP^TM, the most advanced and complete semantic natural language processing technology on the market, announced that it has been honored by KMWorld^TM Magazine as one of the "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" for 2008.

Every year since 2000, KMWorld Magazine has researched the marketplace for technologies which enhance, improve and expand the ability for users to derive more value and understanding from their respective knowledge bases.

"It's an honor to be recognized by KMWorld as one of the 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management because it validates our commitment to bringing the best Semantic Natural Language Processing technology to our customers," said Scott Jarus, CEO of Cognition Technologies. "Semantic NLP is becoming a major component in content and knowledge management, and is a requirement for those technologies which wish to participate in Web 3.0 -- the Semantic Web."

The underlying technology behind Cognition's Semantic NLP has been in development for more than 20 years. Leveraging computational linguistic science, Cognition has built a technology which has, in essence, enabled computers to understand the English language. This translates into enhanced capabilities for applications which can then deliver more functionality, a better user experience and new business opportunities.

"We have long held that the true essence of knowledge management is an attitude, a single-minded commitment to improvement. And companies on our list simply must emphasize an abiding determination to serve their most important constituency: their customers. They must also show agile innovation combined with a full understanding of the forces that affect, and will affect, their customers," said Hugh McKellar, KMWorld Editor-in-Chief.

For more information about KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management", visit www.kmworld.com or www.cognition.com/info/kmworld.html.

Cognition's Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies add word and phrase meaning and understanding to computer applications, providing a technology and/or end-user with actionable content based upon a semantic knowledge of the language. This understanding results in simultaneously much higher precision and recall of salient data within the universe of possible results. Cognition's Semantic NLPTM makes technologies and applications more human-like in their understanding of language, thereby resulting in more robust applications, greater user satisfaction and new capabilities available for exploitation. On the Web in particular, powering applications with Cognition's semantic understanding technology drives these applications ever closer to Web 3.0 (the semantic Web).

Cognition - Giving technologies new meaning.^TM

For more information:

Tad Benson
VP of Marketing
Cognition Technologies, Inc.
(310) 641-7200 x214
tad.benson@cognition.com

Company offers the most complete semantic NLP technology and software on the market

(LOS ANGELES) April 16, 2008 -- Cognition Technologies (www.cognition.com), the creator of Cognition's Semantic NLP^TM, the most advanced and complete semantic natural language processing technology on the market, announced the commercial release of its technology and software. Cognition's Semantic NLP "understands" word and phrase meanings in modern computer applications, including on the Web. Applications employing Cognition's technologies are more human-like in their understanding of language, which translates into increased functionality, greater precision and a more robust user experience.

Cognition's Semantic NLP solves the problem of information glut found in most technologies that work with vast amounts of text. Web-based applications are one example of a text-intensive application in which very little understanding of the content is available. With Cognition's semantic technology, vast amounts of text can be mined, analyzed, searched and acted upon with greater precision, completeness and understanding. This results in a competitive edge to companies that employ Cognition's Semantic NLP technology.

"No other commercially available natural language processing technology comes close to Cognition in its breadth and depth of understanding the English language," said Scott Jarus, CEO of Cognition Technologies.

Companies using Cognition's Semantic NLP discover that:

• Their technology products are made smarter, more interactive and provide a richer user experience;
• They can differentiate their user experience from competitors by providing simultaneously increased precision (more relevant) and recall (more complete) of information;
• When used in the legal industry, they are able to lower attorney review costs by nearly 50% and minimize the risk of missing relevant data by employing Cognition's rich dictionary of synonyms and phrase relationships;
• When used within call centers, they can reduce call response times by up to 25%, maximize self-service support and increase customer satisfaction; and
• When applied to Web advertising placement, Cognition matches more ads, and at the same time, matches them more accurately, resulting in increased revenue through higher click-through rates.

Cognition is driving revenue on multiple fronts, including the licensing of its Semantic NLP technology to content owners for meaning-based Search within an enterprise and on the Web. In addition, the company has licensed its technology for specialized use within specific vertical markets, such as health and legal.

Technological Advantage Over Competition

"One of the most daunting tasks in building a natural language understanding system is to build the semantic map and the dictionary with details of the syntactic behavior of words (i.e. how words behave within context)," added Mr. Jarus. "Cognition's team has spent more than 20 years building this capability into Cognition's Semantic NLP for the English language."

Other NLP companies, such as Powerset^TM and Hakia^TM, are attempting to achieve the same results which are now immediately available through Cognition's Semantic NLP technology. Cognition's technology differentiates itself from its competitors by delivering on the following capabilities:

• The disambiguation of words -- Cognition interprets words with different meanings in different contexts (leads to better precision). For example, the text "Did they adopt the bill?" is known by Cognition to relate to information about "the approval of Proposition A", because "adopt" in the text means "to approve", and "bill" in the text means "a proposed law".
• Synonym awareness - Cognition recognizes different words and phrases with the same meaning within context (leads to better recall). For example, when Cognition sees "pay raises", it figures out the meanings of "pay" and "raise", but also knows the synonyms "salary increases", "wage hikes", etc.
• Understands hypernyms (larger word concepts that can have more specific words that relate to them, e.g., "color" is a hypernym of "green", "red" and "blue") and hyponyms (words that relate to a larger concept, e.g., "red", "green" and "blue" are hyponyms of the word "color") - Cognition has an ontology and taxonomy for English such that almost all of the hypernym and hyponym relationships are mapped out (leads to better recall).
• Grammatical behavior awareness -- Cognition has details of the grammatical behavior of virtually all words to assist Cognition's advanced parser in assigning grammatical structure to sentences (leads to better parsing and precision).

About Cognition Technologies, Inc. (www.cognition.com)

Cognition's Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies add word and phrase meaning and understanding to computer applications, providing a technology and/or end-user with actionable content based upon a semantic knowledge of the language. This understanding results in simultaneously much higher precision and recall of salient data within the universe of possible results. Cognition's Semantic NLPTM makes technologies and applications more human-like in their understanding of language, thereby resulting in more robust applications, greater user satisfaction and new capabilities available for exploitation. On the Web in particular, powering applications with Cognition's semantic understanding technology drives these applications ever closer to Web 3.0 (the semantic Web).

Cognition - Giving technologies new meaning.^TM

For more information:

Tad Benson
VP of Marketing
Cognition Technologies, Inc.
(310) 641-7200 x214
tad.benson@cognition.com

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. - June 1, 2007 - Cuadra Associates, Inc. and Cognition Technologies, Inc. announce today the signing of a marketing partnership agreement whereby Cuadra Associates will promote Cognition's linguistic meaning-based Search software, CognitionSearch, to the U.S. and international library markets. This announcement is being made in conjunction with the two company's joint presence at the annual meeting of the Special Library Association in Denver, CO, on June 3-5, 2007 (exhibit #1036).

"We're thrilled to be partnered with a company which has successfully developed broad distribution channels and tremendous credibility within the information industry and library markets," said Mike Reid, VP of Sales and Business Development for Cognition Technologies. "Cuadra's team of professionals brings a unique depth and understanding of this market, which makes it a natural fit for them to promote our advanced Search products."

The marketing partnership agreement calls for Cuadra Associates to actively promote and introduce CognitionSearch to its existing and prospective customers. Cognition Technologies will provide training, sales support and post-sales implementation and account management.

"CognitionSearch is ground-breaking technology," said Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra, President of Cuadra Associates. "Our customers and others have long wondered how to achieve simultaneous increases in both precision and recall during search process. Unfortunately, most Search technologies force users to choose between increased recall at the expense of precision, or increased precision at the expense of recall. CognitionSearch uniquely solves this problem. In addition to our joint marketing agreement, we are also considering ways of integrating CognitionSearch with our STAR platform."

About Cognition Technologies, Inc. Cognition Technologies has developed the next evolution in Search technology. The company's patented linguistic, meaning-based Search technology, CognitionSearch™, dramatically increases the precision and recall of search results. Unlike traditional Search technologies which don't understand the meaning of query terms or results, CognitionSearch, based upon computational linguistic science, "teaches" computers the meanings of virtually all words, phrases and concepts in the common English language.

For more information about Cognition Technologies, visit www.cognition.com. To use CognitionSearch™, the company's specialized Search demonstration Website, visit www.cognitionsearch.com.

About Cuadra Associates, Inc. Cuadra Associates, Inc. has been in business since 1978. The initial version of its flagship product, STAR™, was introduced in 1982. Since then, Cuadra's powerful software products have continued to earn the highest ratings from its users, while the name Cuadra has become synonymous with quality and integrity. What makes STAR particularly unusual is that it is able to manage information collections in many different types of environments - libraries, records centers, archives, museums, law firms and publishing organizations - so that organizations with multiple, related information management needs can meet them with a single software package. Now past its 25th year of operation, Cuadra has attracted a prestigious group of customers, as well as industry-wide recognition. Cuadra Associates, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Silver Spring, MD and New York, and authorized resellers outside the United States.

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. - May 21, 2007 - Cognition Technologies Inc., creators of CognitionSearch™, an evolutionary meaning-based linguistic search technology, today announced that founder and CTO, Kathleen Dahlgren, Ph.D. will speak at the 2007 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, May 23. Dr. Dahlgren's presentation "Improved Precision and Recall with Linguistic Semantics", will discuss how computational linguistics and an understanding of word meanings can dramatically enhance the capabilities of Search technology.

"This conference highlights the cutting edge of semantic technology, including recent commercialization successes - like CognitionSearch," said Dahlgren. "Most of the leaders in the semantic Web industry will be present, which will provide an outstanding opportunity for technical interchange and to explain our meaning-based approach to Search to these industry experts."

CognitionSearch dramatically increases the Precision and Recall of search results when compared to traditional Search methods and technologies. Based on computational linguistic science, CognitionSearch, a patented technology, has, in essence, "taught" the computer the meaning of virtually all of the words and phrases in the common English language. As a result, CognitionSearch "understands" both the user query and the content of the documents being searched, thereby delivering higher performance in the areas of precision and recall, the two main metrics that are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of Search engine technology. Precision refers to a Search engine's ability to return accurate relevant results (e.g. eliminating ambiguity), while Recall describes the breadth of the universe of relevant results (e.g. synonyms). CognitionSearch can be experienced through the company's demonstration Website at www.cognitionsearch.com, which showcases the technology and demonstrates its capabilities to provide deeper and more precise Search results.

Dr. Dahlgren, an adjunct professor at UCLA, continues to stay on the forefront of linguistic research and technology, particularly as it relates to Search applications. She is the author of Cognition's seminal patent, A Natural Language Understanding System, which describes a linguistic method for controlling the explosion of potential parses. Dr. Dahlgren has also published several scholarly articles on linguistic science and is the author of Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and a post doctorate in computer science from UCLA.

For more information on Cognition Technologies, visit www.cognition.com.

About Cognition Technologies Cognition Technologies has developed the next evolution in Search technology. The company's patented meaning-based linguistic Search technology, CognitionSearch™, dramatically increases the Precision and Recall of search results. Unlike traditional Search technologies, which don't understand the meaning of query terms or results, CognitionSearch, based upon computational linguistic science, has, in essence, "taught" the computer the meanings of virtually all of the words and phrases in the common English language.

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. - March 20, 2007 - Cognition Technologies, Inc. today announced the commercial release of CognitionSearch™, its evolutionary meaning-based linguistic Search technology. CognitionSearch dramatically increases the Precision and Recall of search results when compared to traditional Search methods and technologies.

Based on computational linguistic science, CognitionSearch, a patented technology, has, in essence, "taught" the computer the meaning of virtually all of the words and phrases in the common English language. As a result, CognitionSearch "understands" both the user query and the content of the documents being searched, which enables the software to deliver higher performance in the areas of precision and recall, the two main metrics that are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of Search engine technology. Precision refers to a Search engine's ability to return accurate relevant results (e.g. eliminating ambiguity), while Recall describes the breadth of the universe of relevant results (e.g. synonyms).

"The most significant and, until now, unsolved problem facing Search technology has been how to increase the precision of Search results without sacrificing recall, and vise versa," said Scott Jarus, CEO of Cognition Technologies. "CognitionSearch solves this problem by 'understanding' what the user is asking, and then returning only those results which are relevant to the query. As an example, CognitionSearch understands the difference between a 'bat' used in baseball and a 'bat' that flies around in a cave. It also understands that the word 'bill' has seven different meanings, which are dependent upon the context of the query or sentence to resolve the word's understanding. CognitionSearch will forever change the way people evaluate the quality of their Search results."

Powered by human knowledge and experience and built one word and concept at a time, the underlying technology in CognitionSearch has been in development for more than 20 years. It required more than 300 man-years of effort by a team of renowned computational linguists and computer scientists. CognitionSearch software is initially being offered to enterprise customers in the litigation support (legal) and life sciences markets. In addition, CognitionSearch is now available for use by the general public through the company's demonstration Website at www.cognitionsearch.com. Website users have the ability to search very detailed and deep content in the areas of health, politics, government and legal. New content will be added to the Website on a regular basis.

Background Virtually all of today's popular Search engines use similar, statistically-based "pattern matching" technology, which lacks real understanding of the meaning of words both in the user query and in the Search results. This lack of word meaning is the cause of great frustration by users who are both overwhelmed by the volume of Search results and disappointed by the lack of relevancy of Search results. In addition, pattern matching Search engines only retrieve content based upon the actual words entered in the query, which creates another hidden problem that most users aren't even aware of - the incomplete retrieval of information from the universe of possible Search results. If a user fails to enter a term which may be synonymous with what they are looking for (e.g. "automobile" as a synonym for "car"), any documents which use only that synonym won't be retrieved. In contrast, CognitionSearch, through its use of linguistic and mathematical algorithms, "understands" the meaning of a user's query, including related words, phrases or concepts, and applies that understanding to the available Search universe. This "understanding" results in significantly greater precision, relevancy and completeness of the results.

"The improvements we've experienced in the precision and recall of our Search results are amazing," said Philip Bosco MD, director of trauma services, Sutter Roseville (CA) Medical Center. "CognitionSearch is enabling our doctors and nurses to be more efficient by increasing the relevancy of their Search results and allowing them to find information in the MEDLINE database which would be extremely difficult to find with other Search engines."

For more information about Cognition Technologies, visit www.cognition.com. To use CognitionSearch™, the company's specialized Search demonstration Website, visit www.CognitionSearch.com.

About Cognition Technologies Cognition Technologies has developed the next evolution in Search technology. The company's patented meaning-based linguistic Search technology, CognitionSearch™, dramatically increases the Precision and Recall of search results. Unlike traditional Search technologies, which don't understand the meaning of query terms or results, CognitionSearch, based upon computational linguistic science, has "taught" the computer the meanings of virtually all of the words, phrases and concepts in the common English language.

In addition to the renaming, Concordance 2007 is scheduled to be released soon. New enhancements will include:

• New integration with EverQuest's Cognition®, an application that enhances the search capability of Concordance allowing litigators to search on the meaning of words and deliver more relevant document search results.
• A completely redesigned user interface that matches FYI, delivering easier navigation and document organization (see attached screen shot)
• Expanded tag management with tag statistics and tag security
• Multi-level subject foldering with the ability to mark folders as public or private
• Enhanced e-mail import Wizard that automatically establishes parent-child relationships with e-mails and their attachments
• Exclusive feature! The ability to conduct online LexisNexis® research from within Concordance by sending highlighted text to LexisNexis® Total Litigator
• Enhanced integration with CaseMap to bulk send entire document sets from Concordance to CaseMap versus sending one fact at a time

In a partnership with Everest Technologies (www.everesttek.com), Cognition Technologies released their latest litigation support tool, EverQuest. This technology boosts the current search technology of Concordance, bringing back a higher rate of relevant search results, making the Concordance tool more powerful than ever.