Cincinnati, Ohio - November 14, 2007 - Language Logic has signed an agreement to license the advanced Automatic Coding Model (ACM) and text categorization technology of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) within the Ascribe™ online verbatim management system.  ISTI is based in Pisa, Italy, and is an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).  Senior research scientist at ISTI-CNR, Dr. Fabrizio Sebastiani, will work alongside the Language Logic developers to bring his groundbreaking automatic learning, text coding and opinion mining techniques in ACM to the survey research industry.

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Language Logic has been providing online verbatim coding tools since 2000 and its Ascribe™ application is currently used throughout the world by most of the largest market research agencies.  More than 12 million verbatim responses are processed in Ascribe™ each month, in many languages.

Dr.  Sebastiani, writes, "The integration between Language Logic's Ascribe™ and ISTI-CNR's ACM is a marriage made in heaven, in which the right technology meets the right users.  The wide acceptance that Ascribe™ enjoys within the worldwide survey research industry and the strong sense of community that Language Logic has built within the Ascribe™ user base, make this an exciting opportunity for ISTI-CNR to improve the effectiveness, functionality and usability of ACM through continuous interaction with this community."

Charles Baylis, Chief Technical Officer, Language Logic, commented, "What sets this technology apart from any other we have evaluated is its ability to learn by example.  It does not replace the human coder, but greatly amplifies the efforts of the coder.  So, the human coder may code say 5% of a study and then let ACM code the remainder.  Learning by example has another tremendous benefit: no skills are required to operate the software other than the coding skills users of Ascribe already have."

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