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Linguamatics and 81qd Sign Multi-Year Collaboration in Knowledge Discovery for Product Life Cycle Management

Friday, January 18, 2008 General News
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CAMBRIDGE, England, and NEW YORK, Jan. 17 LinguamaticsLtd, the leader in natural language processing (NLP) for life scienceresearch, and 81qd, the New York City-based health care technologyconsultancy, an affiliate of the Medical Knowledge Group (MKG), announce amulti-year collaboration to provide state-of-the-art product life cyclemanagement consulting services. Central to the collaboration is the use ofLinguamatics' flagship I2E software to identify and leverage business-criticalinsights for 81qd's clients. Applications include message mapping and opinionleader network analyses for the medical, health care, pharmaceutical,biotechnology, and life sciences fields. Financial details of the agreementwere not disclosed.
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"We evaluated other well known NLP-based technologies, but Linguamaticswas the clear choice in terms of functionality and flexibility to support ourbusiness needs," said Aafia Chaudhry, MD, President, 81qd. "This newcollaboration provides us with unrivalled capabilities in data analysis,synthesis and reporting to support our clients' unique needs. I2E's precision,accuracy and scalability are essential for developing our services in keyopinion leadership sciences, physician sentiment analyses, and competitiveintelligence reporting."
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"81qd uniquely combines strong medical expertise with a clear vision ofhow to use our leading edge technology to accelerate and optimize criticallife cycle management decisions in the clinical practice setting," said RogerHale, COO and Co-founder of Linguamatics. "Our extended collaboration is anexciting step for Linguamatics, underlining our ability to impact decision-making across the pharmaceutical industry from bench to business."

ABOUT LINGUAMATICS LTD

Linguamatics helps organizations to maximize the value derived frominformation resources through effective deployment of innovative naturallanguage processing (NLP) based technology. The versatile interactiveinformation extraction system, I2E, helps organizations to do much more thansimply cope with vast quantities of information. Its unique combination ofsearch and text mining helps organizations to turn this information into acompetitive advantage. From life sciences and healthcare to businessintelligence, from media analysis to security, users mine large collections ofdocuments, extracting relevant facts and relationships from content such asscientific papers, news feeds, patents, or business reports. Linguamatics hasa rapidly growing user community with I2E deployed at most top-10pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded in 2001, and is based inCambridge, UK.

ABOUT I2E

Linguamatics' flagship I2E technology combines four key capabilities toenable users to rapidly extract relevant facts and relationships from largedocument collections:

I2E features a client-server architecture built using industry-standardJava and C for use by single users, project teams, or in enterprise-widedeployments. Organizations have full control over source content to be mined,definition of queries and results output.

For more information visit www.linguamatics.com.

ABOUT 81qd and Medical Knowledge group

81qd strives to advance the science of intelligent data retrieval,contextual data analysis, and intuitive data exchange, transforming the wayour clients make decisions. Our global business technology portfolio offersstate-of-the-art knowledge management solutions, optimizing growth at allstages of life cycle management. 81qd is an industry leader in the science ofphysician opinion leadership, key opinion leadership segmentation, OL/KOLidentification and profiling, peer-to-peer collaboration network analyses,physician sentiment analyses, message mapping, and competitive intelligencereporting.

For more information on 81qd or our range of services, please visitwww.81qd.com.

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