Nstein and Gale Announce Partnership Agreement Companies leverage their core assets, extending market reach to new customers

2002-12-19

Montreal and Farmington Hills, December 19th, 2002 - Nstein Technologies Inc., "Nstein" (CDNX: EIN), a leader in providing computer-aided indexing (CAI) solutions to the e-publishing industry, and Gale®, a part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC, TSX: TOC) and acclaimed publisher of e-research, announce their agreement to provide Gale's renowned subject taxonomy through Nstein's flagship automated indexing software. This agreement will enhance content search and retrieval services and extend market reach for both companies in many domains, including: business/financial services, law, medicine and health, technology, and social sciences.

Gale's 70,000 node subject taxonomy will be pre-packaged within Nstein's Intelligent Categorizer" and Nfinder" automated indexing and search tools. This will enable Gale, Nstein, and their partners to license and deploy a hybrid product to enterprises around the globe. Business analysts, financial researchers, product managers, and information professionals now will have a powerful means for automatically indexing and retrieving information from their databases - quickly and with pinpoint accuracy.

"This powerful combination of Gale's renowned, highly developed taxonomy and Nstein's advanced processing software has created a new 'engine" for mining masses of information. Strategically, this has opened up tremendous new market opportunities for us," remarks Charles Alexander, Vice President Sales and Marketing at Nstein.

"Gale and Nstein are working hand-in-hand to provide additional value to researchers experiencing information overload. Companies looking for a way to better organize and retrieve data are ideal candidates for this new solution," adds Alexander.

Says Scott Smith, Vice President of Business Development at Gale, "This agreement allows Gale to productize one of its key assets -- our proprietary taxonomy. The integration of our taxonomy into Nstein's software will allow companies to categorize, navigate, and retrieve the "right" answers from across content sources " both internal and external."

Nstein President Randall Marcinko concludes, "We're extremely pleased to be partnering with Gale. Together we're providing an advanced, domain-specific indexing and retrieval solution that will meet the specific needs of substantial customer-bases within the legal, financial, health and technology markets. I'd call that a win-win scenario."


About Thomson and Gale

The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of $7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information and technology to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE:TOC, TSX:TOC). Its learning businesses and brands serve the needs of individuals, learning institutions, corporations and government agencies with products and services for both traditional and distributed learning.

As part of The Thomson Corporation, Gale is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print and in microform. The Gale family of publishing imprints includes such noted reference brands as Macmillan Reference USA®, Charles Scribner's Sons®, and Primary Source Microfilm®. Gale also serves the K-12 market with its U·X·L®, Greenhaven Press®, Lucent Books®, KidHaven Press®, Blackbirch Press®, and Sleeping Bear Press® imprints. Thorndike Press® , Wheeler Publishing® and Walker Large Print" serve libraries® large print collections, while the Taft Group®, specializes in reference materials for the nonprofit sector. Gale operating companies include distinguished German reference publisher K.G. Saur® and the U.K.-based Graham & Whiteside®.

In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organizations - including Looksmart, Factiva, Dialog, Dow Jones, Reuters, and Thomson Financial, enjoy strategic business distribution partnerships with Gale. Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with additional offices in the U.S. and in the U.K., Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Malaysia. For further information please visit: www.gale.com and www.thomson.com.




About Nstein

Nstein Technologies Inc. is an industry leader in providing innovative content management software solutions to the e-publishing, enterprise and government sectors. Nstein's products automate complex tasks such as document indexing and summarizing, and enable organizations to maximize the value of their content assets through the improved organization, navigation, and faster retrieval of information. The Nserver" solution is a core content management component, which has enabled Nstein's customers to significantly increase their ROI through increased productivity, efficiency and revenue gains. The company's patented Linguistic DNA" technology, which combines the advantages of linguistic and statistical analysis with artificial intelligence has earned it top analyst ratings internationally. Nstein's headquarters are in Montreal, Canada, with offices in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and London, UK. For further information please visit www.nstein.com.

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