ANNAPOLIS, Md., Sept. 12, 2000 (PRIMEZONE)-- AnswerChase(tm) Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Riza C. Berkan announced today that AnswerChase is releasing PROve 3.0, a professional version of its award winner desktop searchbot that uniquely combines new features such as Intelligence Monitoring, Content Sharing, and Content Streaming. PROve 3.0 is leading the way in the new frontier of fully automated retrieval and advice software designed for the business audience.
AnswerChase PROve 3.0 takes a question in natural language, accesses all relevant sources on the Internet, finds answers and displays them in their original form extracted directly from the source page or document. Any question can be asked in natural language without any pre-knowledge of the solution, and PROve 3.0 will obtain a direct answer.
PROve 3.0's industry-leading, comprehensive content access list, "The Map," is continuously compiled and updated by the AnswerChase team, and then automatically uploaded on the PROve 3.0 platform every day without interfering with the software's routine operations. This capability allows users to access dynamic sources embedded in the deepest corners of the Internet. No other database matches PROve's access span, and no search engine compares to its automation.
"AnswerChase's software provides the most advanced intelligent computing algorithms and information acquisition tools available," said Dr. Berkan. "The underlying technology makes it possible for computers to dialogue with people and help organizations quickly find critical advice from any electronic knowledge base. We believe PROve 3.0 is an important step towards solving the information pollution problem."
The company expects organizations using AnswerChase's PROve 3.0 to benefit in a variety of ways, including:
-- Cost savings through reduced labor and increased productivity;
-- Automated access to competitive intelligence information;
-- Automated content building and streaming;
-- Ability to learn from previous searches and build local expertise;
-- Accelerated help desk and technical support operations; and
-- Single solution to multiple problems including LAN/WAN search and
multiple file formats
The key technology components in the AnswerChase PROve 3.0 software line include Natural Language Processing, Ontological Semantics, Fuzzy Syntactic Sequence Analysis (FUSS), Intelligent Navigation, Sequence Indexing (Syndexing(tm)), and Fuzzy Inference.
Victor Raskin, Professor of English and Linguistics at Purdue University, and a world-renowned expert on Computational Linguistics, stated, "This software will change the way people interact with computers. AnswerChase combined the most advanced concepts in artificial intelligence and natural language processing with a deep understanding of linguistics to create a completely new way to find information and make decisions." Professor Raskin is also an advisory board member and senior consultant to AnswerChase.
Dr. Berkan added, "Our team of technical experts used the most advanced technology available to develop a new search technology that is fast, fully interactive and dialogues with the user. As a result, we have designed the leading integrated information system that will help our clients increase their productivity and profitability."
Dr. Riza C. Berkan, AnswerChase's founder, Chairman, and CTO, is an authority on high-level computing areas including fuzzy logic, natural language processing and artificial intelligence. In 1997, Dr. Berkan published "Fuzzy Systems Design Principles," (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Society Press). He has also published numerous articles on artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neural networks, decision-making systems, and natural language processing applications. Dr. Berkan holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering with a specialization in artificial intelligence, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and a BS in Physics.
AnswerChase is leading the evolution of knowledge retrieval by creating highly intelligent, dialogue-driven advice solutions that deliver a new level of interaction between people and computers. The company's enabling infrastructure technologies help organizations harness the power of information content by automating search processes, providing advisory systems and creating human-like dialogue with computers to facilitate e-commerce, customer service, technical support, intelligence monitoring and knowledge management applications on the Internet, intranet, Local/Wide Area Networks, Multimedia and wireless platforms.
AnswerChase, Inc. is a privately held corporation currently headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland that develops intelligent search and advisory solutions to access quality information across the Internet, intranets, LAN, WAN, and wireless networks. Statements about AnswerChase's future expectations, including development and regulatory plans, and all other statements in this document other than historical facts are ``forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of applicable Federal Securities Laws and are not guarantees of future performance. These statements involve risks and uncertainties related to market acceptance of and competition for the AnswerChase's technologies and other risks and uncertainties inherent in AnswerChase's business.
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