For some time now, IBM has recognized the potential importance of computational linguistics and has demonstrated a commitment to NLP technologies through its extensive research and development activities for over 30 years. In 2001, IBM launched a research & development project out of the Dublin Software Lab (Ireland) with the aim of harnessing this wealth of research to create IBM's next generation natural language processing (NLP) technology, incorporating hundreds of person-years of existing NLP research across IBM. The result of this ambitious project was IBM LanguageWare.
LanguageWare has been driven by the increasing demand for solutions to help in how we organize, store, find, relate and ultimately action information - information which frequently resides within ever growing volumes of unstructured text. Many studies estimate that over 80% of the information passing through our corporations is unstructured. Indeed, it could be hypothesized that most of the decisions we make in our daily lives are driven by information that is 100% unstructured, i.e. natural language. We read e-mails, reports, presentations, instant messages, web pages, and we communicate via text or voice with colleagues and friends. LanguageWare aims to expose the deep semantic information within these information sources to make it available for integration into business processes. Our raison d'être is to make natural language processing ubiquitous across all software applications and a key differentiating capability for a wide range of applications both inside and outside of IBM. |
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