{{short description|Research company}} {{Infobox company | name = Language Computer Corporation | logo = | type = Private | foundation = 1995 | location = Richardson, Texas | num_employees = 12 (2010) | industry = Software, Research and development, Natural Language Processing | products = Question Answering and Information Extraction products | homepage = [http://www.languagecomputer.com/ LanguageComputer.com] }}
'''Language Computer Corporation''' ('''LCC''') is a natural language processing research company based in Richardson, Texas. The company develops a variety of natural language processing products, including software for question answering, information extraction, and automatic summarization.<ref>[http://languagecomputer.com/index.php?page=products languagecomputer.com]</ref>
Since its founding in 1995, the low-profile company has landed significant United States Government contracts, with $8,353,476 in contracts in 2006-2008.<ref>usaspending.gov [http://www.usaspending.gov/fpds/fpds.php?parent_id=147751&sortby=u&detail=-1&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&fiscal_year=&submit=G Contracts to LANGUAGE COMPUTER CORPORATION]. Accessed October 20, 2008.</ref>
While the company has focused primarily on the government software market,<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20013785-248.html CNET.com]</ref> LCC has also used its technology to spin off three start-up companies. The first spin-off, known as Lymba Corporation, markets the PowerAnswer question answering product originally developed at LCC.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lymba|url=https://www.lymba.com/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=Lymba|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Dale, Robert. (2008)."Industry Watch." Natural Language Engineering 14 (1): 141–144. {{doi|10.1017/S1351324907004639}}</ref> In 2010, LCC's CEO, Andrew Hickl, co-founded two start-ups which made use of the company's technology. These included Swingly, an automatic question answering start-up,<ref>{{Cite web|last=O'Dell|first=Jolie|title=Meet Swingly, This Year's "It" Search Startup [INVITES]|url=https://mashable.com/2010/08/17/swingly/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=Mashable|date=17 August 2010 |language=en}}</ref> and Extractiv, an information extraction service that was founded in partnership with Houston, Texas-based 80legs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/extractiv_launches_semantics_as_a_service_platform.php |title=readwriteweb.com |access-date=2010-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716175913/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/extractiv_launches_semantics_as_a_service_platform.php |archive-date=2010-07-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.languagecomputer.com/ Language Computer Corporation website] * [http://www.lymba.com/ Lymba Corporation website]
Category:Software companies based in Texas Category:Companies based in Richardson, Texas Category:Natural language processing Category:Computational linguistics Category:Semantic Web companies Category:Software companies of the United States
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