Bayer CropScience Extends Commitment to Linguamatics Text Mining Platform for Agrochemical Research
(24 September 2008, Cambridge, UK) Linguamatics Ltd, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced that Bayer CropScience has renewed its commitment to use the I2E semantic knowledge-discovery platform to identify trends and activities in the crop protection business. Bayer CropScience has been using I2E since mid-2007, primarily for the analysis of patents and scientific literature. I2E’s natural language querying and ability to exploit agro-related thesauri facilitate efficient and focused analysis of large document sets and full-text sources. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
“We are delighted that Bayer CropScience has chosen to extend their commitment to using I2E to find the insights and intelligence they need from their text resources,” commented Roger Hale, COO and Co-founder of Linguamatics. “I2E offers powerful and flexible text mining that is easily optimized to provide up-to-date, relevant and high quality answers for a particular domain like agrochemicals.”
ABOUT LINGUAMATICS
Linguamatics helps organizations to maximize the value derived from information resources through effective deployment of innovative natural language processing (NLP) based technology. The versatile interactive information extraction system, I2E, helps organizations to do much more than simply cope with vast quantities of information. Its unique combination of search and text mining helps organizations to turn this information into a competitive advantage. From life sciences and healthcare to business intelligence, from media analysis to security, users mine large collections of documents, extracting relevant facts, relationships and quantitative data from content such as scientific papers, news feeds, patents, or internal reports. Linguamatics has a rapidly growing user community with I2E deployed at most top-10 pharma companies. The company was founded in 2001, and is based in Cambridge, UK. For further information on Linguamatics products and solutions, visit www.linguamatics.com.
ABOUT BAYER CROPSCIENCE
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of about EUR 5.8 billion (2007), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer Crop-Science has a global workforce of about 17,800 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at:
www.newsroom.bayercropscience.com
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