Language Computer Corporation

{{short description|Research company}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Language Computer Corporation

| logo =

| type = Private

| foundation = 1995

| location = Richardson, Texas

| num_employees = 12 (2010)

| industry = Software, Research and development, Natural Language Processing

| products = Question Answering and Information Extraction products

| homepage = [http://www.languagecomputer.com/ LanguageComputer.com]

}}

Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is a natural language processing research company based in Richardson, Texas. The company develops a variety of natural language processing products, including software for question answering, information extraction, and automatic summarization.[http://languagecomputer.com/index.php?page=products languagecomputer.com]

Since its founding in 1995, the low-profile company has landed significant United States Government contracts, with $8,353,476 in contracts in 2006-2008.usaspending.gov [http://www.usaspending.gov/fpds/fpds.php?parent_id=147751&sortby=u&detail=-1&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&fiscal_year=&submit=G Contracts to LANGUAGE COMPUTER CORPORATION]. Accessed October 20, 2008.

While the company has focused primarily on the government software market,[http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20013785-248.html CNET.com] LCC has also used its technology to spin off three start-up companies. The first spin-off, known as Lymba Corporation, markets the PowerAnswer question answering product originally developed at LCC.{{Cite web|title=Lymba|url=https://www.lymba.com/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=Lymba|language=en-US}}Dale, Robert. (2008)."Industry Watch." Natural Language Engineering 14 (1): 141–144. {{doi|10.1017/S1351324907004639}} In 2010, LCC's CEO, Andrew Hickl, co-founded two start-ups which made use of the company's technology. These included Swingly, an automatic question answering start-up,{{Cite web|last=O'Dell|first=Jolie|title=Meet Swingly, This Year's "It" Search Startup [INVITES]|url=https://mashable.com/2010/08/17/swingly/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=Mashable|date=17 August 2010 |language=en}} and Extractiv, an information extraction service that was founded in partnership with Houston, Texas-based 80legs.{{Cite web |url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/extractiv_launches_semantics_as_a_service_platform.php |title=readwriteweb.com |access-date=2010-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716175913/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/extractiv_launches_semantics_as_a_service_platform.php |archive-date=2010-07-16 |url-status=dead }}