Jan-15-2008 - Expert System, leading provider of semantic software, which
discovers, classifies and interprets text information, and Professor Paul
Thompson of the Computer Science department of Dartmouth College, a private
Ivy League college in New England, today announced they have entered into a
collaboration agreement.

The partnership between Expert System and Dartmouth College focuses on the
use of Expert System's semantic technology for unstructured information
management - that is, texts in Natural Language (the language we use to
speak and communicate.) The research will focus, in particular, on the
effectiveness and correctness of Semantic Intelligence in the analysis of
large amounts of documents (reports, e-mail corpora, etc.), and in the
selection and automatic extraction of relevant data.

"We are using Expert System's semantic technology for research on electronic
discovery, or e-discovery, the process which takes place when two or more
organizations engaged in litigation request access to each other's
documents," says Thompson.  "We are participating in a U.S.
government-sponsored benchmark evaluation of e-discovery technology to
determine whether advanced information retrieval technology, such as
semantic search, can provide better performance than the current
state-of-the-art."

"Joint technical development initiatives are the most interesting
opportunity to create stronger and smarter relationships between University
researchers and leading corporations," explains Stefano Spaggiari, Expert
System Chief Executive Officer, "That is why we're enthusiastic about the
interest of the Dartmouth's Computer Science department in our technology;
it's another very interesting demonstration of the power and strategic value
of semantic technologies in effectively managing natural language and
textual unstructured information".

The news of the partnership with the prestigious college in Hanover, New
Hampshire comes a few months after the announcement of new collaboration
agreements between Expert System and important Italian Universities
(University of Trento, Ca' Foscari University in Venice) and represents a
further confirmation of the prominence acquired by semantic technology in
the automatic management of language and unstructured information.

Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College, one of the leading undergraduate colleges in the United
States, also has strong graduate and professional programs.  Dartmouth
pioneered in the use of time-sharing operating systems and hosted one of the
earliest workshops on artificial intelligence in 1956.  Dartmouth's computer
science faculty is known worldwide for their excellence in research.