WALTHAM, Mass., October 18, 2006 -- ClearForest, a leading provider of text analytics solutions, today announced ClearForest Modeler, a tool that enables business users to create text extraction solutions customized for the needs of individual companies, specific industries, and real-world business problems. The new application models concepts quickly and easily without requiring technical skills or a linguistic background. The results are modules that are used to transform free form text into structured tables in a relational database or XML tags. The result – new and powerful insights into hidden relationships, dramatically improved abilities to evaluate and react to events, and the discovery of unforeseen patterns to facilitate problem identification for rapid resolution.

The ClearForest Modeler solution makes the process of defining new concepts straightforward and efficient for non-technical users. The application is designed around an iterative paradigm, allowing for rapid and continuous improvements of results. ClearForest Modeler takes sample documents as input, processes them, and then generates a suggested list of relevant terms, statistically significant terms and term generalizations. The user provides feedback by excluding terms and assigning elements to user-defined entity types. ClearForest Modeler represents more than simple dictionary or thesaurus management, combining statistical techniques with sophisticated linguistics (e.g. the identification of parts-of-speech, stems, polarity, and word phrases).

“ClearForest believes that in order to extract maximum value from text you need to take a domain specific approach to the problem, and the Modeler puts the power to do this in the hands of a much wider community of business and industry experts,” said Barak Pridor, CEO of ClearForest.

With the introduction of ClearForest Modeler, ClearForest now offers a complete suite of role-based interfaces. The ClearForest Modeler is a natural complement to ClearForest’s comprehensive development environment which has great appeal to programmers because of its object-oriented linguistic programming language. Modules created in ClearForest Modeler are upward compatible to this sophisticated development environment.

Example uses of ClearForest Modeler might include a high-tech company who wants to incorporate acronyms, abbreviations, and slang found in their own call center notes into their “voice of the customer” analysis or a pharmaceutical company who would create a module for genomics specific to their research areas.

ClearForest Modeler is part of the 7.1 release of the ClearForest Text Analytics Platform. In addition to modeler, the 7.1 release includes a host of additional product improvements – including performance gains allowing ClearForest’s solutions to handle “web scale” challenges of millions of documents per day. ClearForest Modeler is immediately available and can be purchased directly from ClearForest. Pricing information is available upon request; send inquiries to sales@clearforest.com.

About ClearForest

ClearForest Corporation is a provider of text analytics solutions, supplying the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. In allowing both to be analyzed simultaneously, ClearForest makes unified business intelligence a reality. Our award-winning solutions enable text driven business intelligence for customers such as Eastman Chemical, Reuters, Elsevier Science and International Finance Corporation to turn large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.

Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, MA. For more information, please visit www.clearforest.com. ©2006 ClearForest Corp.

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