Linguastat Supplies the Technology Brains for CDC to Track Latest Media Messages Regarding Swine Flu

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.

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