Nstein launches 12 UIMA annotators supporting intelligent enterprise search and sentiment analysis for customer and market intelligence applications

2006-08-21

Ntelligent Enterprise Search integrates several UIMA annotators on the IBM* WebSphere* Information Integrator OmniFind* Edition information access platform

Montreal, Quebec, August 21, 2006 - Nstein Technologies Inc., ("Nstein") (TSX-V: EIN), a leader in text mining and multilingual information access solutions, today announced the launch of 12 annotators, compliant with the open-source Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) standard developed by IBM. The UIMA standard provides the foundation for new search-related applications that extract hidden meaning from unstructured information.

Nstein's annotators will allow organizations adopting the UIMA standard to considerably expand their content discovery capabilities associated with market intelligence, customer intelligence and early warning applications. Many organizations, including DARPA, the Mayo Clinic and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations, have adopted UIMA as a standard to integrate text analytics applications into search environments for greater business insight.

Nstein's topic-based categorization annotators are now available for the automated tagging of concepts, names of people and organizations, geographic locations, dates and currencies in unstructured documents. Sentiment-based categorization annotators are also available for the tagging of objective and subjective statements in documents, as well as overall negative or positive statements. Other annotators launched by Nstein include fact finding'annotating facts related to human resources movements (hiring, firing, promotion) as well as financial information (mergers and acquisitions, investments, etc.).

"The integration of text analytics in enterprise search solutions will spearhead the development of more applications in market intelligence and customer intelligence. We can already measure the appeal of sentiment analysis in the market, particularly in applications related to customer intelligence and CRM'customer relationship management and public image monitoring'using sentiment analysis to analyze information in blogs, forums, newsfeeds, incoming emails and CRM notes," said Mario Girard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nstein Technologies. "Many annotators have been integrated in our Ntelligent Enterprise Search solution'combining Nstein's intelligent faceted navigation with IBM OmniFind, the powerful information access platform developed by IBM."

UIMA is integral to the IBM Content Discovery portfolio that combines content integration, enterprise search, text analytics and contextual delivery. UIMA is embedded in numerous IBM products including IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition which provides a complete platform for processing unstructured information as part of enterprise search and business intelligence solutions.

About Nstein Technologies Inc.

Nstein Technologies (TSX-V: EIN), an IBM Advanced Business Partner, develops and markets leading-edge software solutions for analyzing vast amounts of unstructured data in virtually all languages. Nstein's linguistic-based platform organizes, analyzes and translates data from any source, in real time. Nstein's enterprise-based text mining and multilingual information access solutions transform reactive decision-making into a proactive process, and solve mission-critical problems faced by companies and organizations. Nstein has developed tailored solutions for clients in homeland security & intelligence markets and e-publishing, as well as for large enterprises and government organizations. The Company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in the United States and Europe. More information is available at www.nstein.com.

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