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Linguastat Supplies the Technology Brains for CDC to Track Latest Media Messages Regarding Swine Flu
Web-Based Intelligence Service Automates Research and Analysis of Information Found Across the Internet
| Source: Linguastat Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - May 7, 2009) - Linguastat, a three-year-old start-up
based in San Francisco, Calif., is the brains behind the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases' tracking and daily updates for media coverage of the
H1N1 virus, or swine flu. Linguastat's web-based intelligence
service fully automates the CDC's online research and analysis
process making it easier to stay current on the latest information covered
in the news media, blogs, and Twitter about the pandemic.
Linguastat's patent-pending technology allows the CDC to read and analyze
the world's digital information and turn the disparate data into actionable intelligence on
an hourly basis. More than 1,400 automated agents monitor thousands of
online sources, including news organizations, websites, blogs, Twitter and
other social media sites. Tens of thousands of items are analyzed in depth
and processed to find key messages. The Linguastat service then
automatically transforms the information into custom reports, identifying
the media messages that relate to the swine influenza. In addition, the
Linguastat service can transform the world's digital information into trend
reports and interactive map reports that show geographically where the flu
events are reported in the media.
"Without Linguastat, we would need to employ a very large group of analysts
who would have to search the Internet, read the information, agree on how
to summarize, and then write the reports. There is no way we would be able
to keep up with this current situation," said Peggy Smith, Assistant
Director of the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
Health and Safety Communications Group. "The Group has been working with
the CDC since 2002 to read and analyze health media messages related to
immunizations and vaccines. Prior to finding Linguastat, our analysts read
and coded articles by hand."
"Linguastat has been working with the CDC through the ORISE since 2007,"
said John Pierre, CEO of Linguastat. "The team from Linguastat and ORISE
initially focused on the top 26 vaccine-related messages, flu messages, and
top preventable diseases as identified by the CDC. Since the swine flu
outbreak, our
Web-based service has saved the CDC significant time and money by
automating the research process for swine flu media information and
delivering timely and accurate reports the agency can use for a variety of
purposes. It is a great relationship."
About Linguastat
Based in San Francisco, Calif., Linguastat offers
a fully automated, web-based intelligence service that automates a variety
of business tasks that require extensive research and analysis.
Incorporating proprietary technology originally developed for the
Department of Defense, the Linguastat service automates the entire searching, monitoring, reading,
analysis, and report-generation process. The service's flexible platform
can deliver important solutions to decision makers in all areas of business
or government, regardless of industry or size of operation. For more
information, visit www.linguastat.com.