as aim nlg industry technology software founded 2009 2009 founder ehud reiter yaji sripada ian davy john perry ross turner headquarters london uk products arria nlg engine software and applications website arria.com arria nlg plc is a uk based company offering artificial intelligence technology in data analytics and information delivery . 1 it is one of the pioneering companies in the space of automatic text generation 2 and when it floated on london s alternative investment market aim in december 2013 it was valued at over 160 million . 3 arria s technology is based on three decades of scientific research in the field of natural language generation nlg . 4 contents 1 history 2 technology science 3 applications 4 competitors 5 see also 6 external links 7 references history edit the company was founded in 2009 under the name data2text limited by professor ehud reiter senior lecturer dr yaji sripada and post doctoral researcher dr ross turner from the nlg research group at the university of aberdeen and meteorologist entrepreneur ian davy . in may 2012 data2text joined forces with a specialist software development and marketing firm arria nlg then a limited company which took a 20 % stake in data2text . in late 2013 arria nlg acquired the remaining 80 % of data2text and in december 2013 arria nlg converted to a public listed company and was floated on the aim . 5 3 technology science edit the fundamental goal of the technology is to take large quantities of data identify the key information contained in that data and express that information in natural language text or voice says dr robert dale the company s chief technology officer . 4 to reach this goal the arria nlg engine a cloud based enterprise software platform automatically recognises patterns in large volumes of complex data which are then distilled into a narrative description of the most significant information . 6 the nlg engine consists of two components the analysis and interpretation component takes raw transactional or sensor data and turns it into information using rules based on the knowledge of a domain expert . the nlg component communicates this information in natural language based on general linguistic rules augmented with industry specific terminology and usage . 4 arria nlg s capabilities are rooted in the scientific research conducted since the 1980s by its founder and chief scientist professor ehud reiter and chief technology officer dr robert dale . 4 in june 2014 arria nlg s technology was awarded us patents 8 762 133 and 8 762 134 . among arria s founders are professor ehud reiter and dr yaji sripada both currently teaching and researching in the department of computing science at the university of aberdeen . reiter arria s chief scientist holds a phd from harvard and founded the nlg research group in aberdeen one of the world s most renowned research groups on natural language generation . dr robert dale joined arria as chief strategy scientist and cto after 17 years as professor in the department of computing at macquarie university where he was director of the now defunct microsoft research institute and later the centre for language technology . 6 from 2003 to 2014 dale was editor in chief of computational linguistics the leading journal in the field of natural language processing . in 2000 reiter and dale co authored the seminal textbook building natural language generation systems . 7 applications edit data2text limited originally focussed on automatically producing meteorological reports based on numerical weather forecast data but quickly extended its offerings to the conversion of vast amounts of data from oil and gas platforms into natural language reports for engineers and operators with the uk s met office 8 and shell us being among its main clients . 9 more recently arria nlg has signed a contract with farmlink to produce narrative reports to optimise agricultural yield potential 10 as well as a proof of concept agreement to provide data intelligence to aircraft engine maintenance staff . 11 the group is also developing applications providing automatic analysis and reporting capabilities for fraud detection risk mitigation and compliance to the banking industry . 5 12 competitors edit other companies who operate in the nlg space include automated insights a firm based in durham north carolina chicago based narrative science and yseop inc a european firm headquartered in dallas texas as well as linguastat from san francisco california . 2 see also edit natural language generation natural language processing natural language understanding computational linguistics computational linguistics journal analytics big data data analysis external links edit official website . university of aberdeen natural language generation group . ehud reiter s research page . yaji sripada s research page . robert dale s research page . references edit greig cameron 15 november 2013 . 20m windfall to boost university spin out company . the herald scotland . retrieved 2014 11 11 . a b dan woods 28 august 2014 . why you should hire a robot to write for you . forbes . retrieved 2014 11 11 . a b greig cameron 6 december 2013 . arria makes aim debut . the herald scotland . retrieved 2014 11 11 . a b c d elaine maslin 2 october 2014 . narrating data . offshore engineer . retrieved 2014 11 11 . a b erika askeland 13 august 2014 . arria to cash in on bank project pdf . the press and journal reproduced by oil & gas academy of scotland . retrieved 2014 11 11 . a b can text summaries of data help people make better decisions than visualisations . digital energy journal . 29 october 2014 . retrieved 2014 11 11 . dale robert ; reiter ehud . 2000 . building natural language generation systems . cambridge u.k. cambridge university press . isbn 052102451x . arria nlg plc and the met office . met office uk . retrieved 2014 11 11 . greig cameron 12 june 2014 . arria is aiming to stay strong with client help . the herald scotland . retrieved 2014 11 11 . alice attwood 13 october 2014 . arria nlg signs framework development contract with farmlink . alliance news . retrieved 2015 01 06 . greig cameron 14 october 2014 . arria looking to work with aviation industry . the herald scotland . retrieved 2015 01 06 . greig cameron 12 august 2014 . arria secures its first financial services deal . the herald scotland . retrieved 2014 11 11 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title arria nlg & oldid 712292034 categories companies based in aberdeen navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export 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