From: "Signiform PR department" 
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Subject: ThoughtTreasure (Linux-related News Release)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:55:38 -0500

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                          Signiform press release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Signiform releases ThoughtTreasure 0.00022 natural language/commonsense
platform
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WASHINGTON, DC - December 8, 1999 - Signiform today announced the
release of ThoughtTreasure 0.00022, a new version of its comprehensive
natural language/commonsense platform for building question answering
services, information extraction systems, and world-aware
applications.  ThoughtTreasure 0.00022 contains a natural language
parser and generator hooked up to a knowledge base and lexicon of
25,000 concepts, 55,000 English and French words and phrases, and
50,000 assertions.

New features of ThoughtTreasure 0.00022 include scripts, a web-enabled
knowledge base, and easy-to-use knowledge base flat files. Scripts are
machine-understandable representations of typical activities such as
going swimming or making a dinner reservation.

For more information on ThoughtTreasure, please visit
http://www.signiform.com/tt/htm/tt.htm.

AVAILABILITY

The ThoughtTreasure server runs on Linux and supports Java and Python
clients. To download a copy of the ThoughtTreasure 0.00022
distribution for noncommercial use, visit
http://www.signiform.com/tt/htm/download.htm. For information about
obtaining a commercial license, contact sales@signiform.com.
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Signiform was founded in 1997 by Erik Mueller, an MIT and UCLA-trained
computer scientist, to bring natural language and commonsense
capabilities to computers and devices.

For more information about Signiform and its products, see
www.signiform.com or contact info@signiform.com.
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Press contact:

     Erik Mueller
     Phone: 202-328-0905
     Email: erik@signiform.com
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ThoughtTreasure and Signiform are trademarks of Signiform.

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