ARRIA NLG plc is a software development business. Its target is to be the global leader in the development and deployment of mission critical, core industrial, enterprise level Natural Language Generation software technologies. Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the computerised process of analysing and converting Big Data into actionable information.

The Group's core product is known as the Arria NLG Engine.

Global corporations are having to deal with an ever-growing amount of data resulting from the digitisation of transactions and industrial processes and from technological advancements in data capture. Computer networks are now producing and storing digital data at such a rate that this data is becoming increasingly difficult to be fully utilised. This development and the challenge to make optimal use of this data has become known as "Big Data".

The market opportunity for the Arria NLG Engine has grown substantially through the emergence of the Big Data phenomenon.

The Arria NLG Engine is a form of artificial intelligence, specialised in communicating information which is extracted from complex data sources in natural language (i.e. as if written by a human).

The Arria NLG Engine comprises of two main elements:
•an analytics component that is programmed to embody the expert knowledge of the domain in which it operates; and
•a natural language generation component, which embodies the skill required to communicate information articulately using natural language.


This combination of analytics and natural language generation means it can be used to automatically generate written reports in potentially any language for any audience that reads as if written by a person expert in their field. The Directors believe that the Arria NLG Engine provides value where many Big Data analytical tools are limited at the human-machine interface, being the point at which analytic results are communicated to humans.

The Arria NLG Engine automatically communicates results, not in numbers or graphics that may require further analysis and explanation, but in narratives that are designed to read as if written by a human expert. Although it is early days for the Group’s business, its technology is already deployed in a mission critical environment, monitoring large scale industrial machinery located on oil and gas production platforms in deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a major global oil and gas company and at a government national weather service.

The scientific foundation for the Arria NLG Engine has been developed over the past four years, but is based on more than 20 years of research and knowledge gained by the Data2Text Founders at the University of Aberdeen.

In 2009, the University of Aberdeen, Prof. Ehud Reiter, Dr. Yaji Shripada, Ian Davy and John Perry formed Data2Text Limited to develop and commercialise various NLG technologies.

Since 2009, the Data2Text science and technology team has continued to develop the commercial potential of its NLG software technologies culminating in the Arria NLG Engine.

Arria has been working with Data2Text since May 2012 when it acquired a 20 per cent. interest in Data2Text and was granted an option to acquire the remaining 80 per cent. On 25 October 2013 Arria acquired the remaining 80 per cent. of Data2Text.


https://www.arria.com/

Stock Information

https://www.arria.com/investorrelations/keyfacts-A710.php

Arria NLG soars on AIM admission as Big Data prospects excite

Thu, 05 December 2013



With technology described by Shell as a “game changer” for the oil industry, Arria NLG has floated its shares on AIM without raising any new funds as it looks to improve its profile and win new clients.

The company had a market cap on admission of around £102m at a share price of 100p, but this quickly soared to £162m as the shares hit 159p just after midday.

Developed by the University of Aberdeen, Arria’s software is based around the concept of natural language generation (NLG), whereby it transforms large sets of data into manageable reports.

For example, with one meteorological client the software takes a huge data set of weather information from all over the globe and can write a 5,000-word location-specific weather forecast in under one minute.

“The software understands the company’s rules for writing reports and turns this mass of data into forecasts – it understands rules better than humans,” explained Chairman and Chief Executive Stuart Rogers.

Perhaps more lucratively, the company has a contract with Royal Dutch Shell for Shell’s platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, where Shell have described the technology as a “game changer” for the oil industry.

Rogers said the software acts as a “force multiplier” on the oil and gas platform, where if there are any significant changes detected by the hundreds of motion sensors that monitor pumps, gears and other equipment a senior engineer usually will need to take between two and five hours to write a report for the platform operators. NLG completes the report in one minute.

The stock market listing is designed to raise the company’s profile and support the development of the Arria NLG brand internationally, give access to equity capital as needed, facilitate the recruitment of high calibre employees and provide liquidity in the company’s shares.

“The increasing growth in ‘Big Data’ in recent years has led to the significant expansion of our target markets,” said Rogers. “Our listing at this time is therefore highly appropriate.”

Admission to AIM & first day of dealings

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4719088

What Is NLG?

ARRIA NLG technology can help tame Big
Data by creating instant plain English
narratives from complex data streams—
narratives you would believe were written
by a human expert—just for you.


How NLG Works

Natural Language Generation (NLG) is
an advanced computational linguistics
technology — it can profoundly impact
how mankind interacts with data in
every area of life.


Arria Innovations

Our vision is to be the global leader in
the development and deployment of mission
critical, core industrial, enterprise level
Natural Language Generation (NLG)
software technologies.

Thankyou dc

A company involved in the Big Data phenomenon. You could see this was going to fly within quarter of an hour of the market opening this morning.

Thanks BAYLIS, Keep an eye out as I have said before for the IPO of Rosslyn Analytics. Could be well worth backing from day 1. BIG DATA company, again an area enjoying exponential growth rates. :-)

Should have told us about this at about ten past eight this morning DC :-)

Watched it for 5 mins, then and off to work. I have made up for it with the tip off Rosslyn above :-)) , when it comes to market.


With technology described by Shell as a “game changer” for the oil industry, this share should go far. Arria NLG (NLG)

LISTEN: Stuart Rogers, CEO of Arria NLG, talks about the company's recent admission to the AIM Market

Click here to listen

UP 73% :-))

Any thing in my opinion to do with Big Data is going to rocket.

Been for a dog walk and its now 87% up today. Linked to Big data.

hmm ..... just 3 MMs and nearly 10% spread

clearly this is a sector you know something about .... how come?

Like I said Big data is taking the market by storm. The markets are hungry for big data, with plenty of cash waiting. I am waiting for the Rosslyn Analytics IPO. A £100 million float on the AIM. Was going to be at the back end of the summer. There is a clear shortage of investment opportunities in Big data.

Closed up 73.85%

IG quote it for CFDS, but their L2 platform for same was totally up the creek, but i have reported it to them

:-))

Will NLG Replace 3D Printing as the Next Big Thing?

http://uk.advfn.com/newspaper/lou-gutheil/23166/will-nlg-replace-3d-printing-as-the-next-big-thing

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In Saturdays Mail - Monday may just be interesting.

Many have tried to fill their boots with Arria NLG since the artificial intelligence software company joined AIM on Thursday at £1, with a valuation of £102m. They found stock in short supply and market-makers have had no option but to mark the price higher.

Buying was nevertheless sufficient to lift the stock to a spectacular close of 162.5p on debut day.


Yesterday, renewed demand in the restricted market saw the shares rocket to 368p before closing a further 120p higher at 282.5p, lifting its valuation up to £298m after only two trading sessions.


The attraction of Arria is apparently its Natural Language Generation technology. Its ‘NLG Engine’ is able to absorb and analyse large data sets and produce written reports in plain English.


Its technology already monitors large-scale industry machinery located at most gas production platforms in deepwater Gulf of Mexico and is in use at the Met Office.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2459391/MARKET-REPORT-Investors-boost-AIM-Isa-rule-change.html

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By: David Thornton 05/12/2013



The biggest problem with big data is that there aren’t enough people to make sense of it all.

The amount of information in the world is ‘mushrooming’. And as we know, business or industrial processes generate enormous amounts of data. This information can contain crucial insights, but it takes a lot of time and effort to decipher it all. An expert has to interpret the data and then report on it… and there just aren’t enough experts.

This is where Arria NLG (LSE: NLG) comes in. Arria’s ‘NLG Engine’ (natural language generation engine) is able to absorb and analyse large data sets and produce written reports in plain English. Its reports read like they were written by a person rather than a machine, and they’re tailored to the audience. And because they are authored by a computer, they can be produced much more quickly and in whatever language is needed. Arria says that NLG technology “brings incomprehensible data to life”.

Clearly, Arria builds some interesting technology. So the company has decided to list on the stock market. It listed on AIM this week but unlike most IPOs, it isn’t raising any new money. It already has a wide shareholder base of over 200 investors and has enough money for the time being, so it has listed by way of an ‘introduction’. The opening listed at 105p but by mid-morning the shares were up by 50%, valuing the company at over £150m!

Arria’s first client

Like many exciting tech stocks, Arria started at a university. Aberdeen in this case. Twenty five years research and experience have got the company to where it is today as a leader in NLG. And the £150m company is only just beginning to make commercial sales. With its background in Aberdeen, oil and gas is the first industry to use the product.

The first client is an energy major that has worked with Arria since 2009. Earlier this year it signed a contract to install the NLG Engine on its deepwater platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The industrial equipment on these rigs generates hundreds of data points every minute. If a machine developed a problem an expert would have to analyse the data to come up with a recommended course of action. Instead, the NLG Engine will produce a report much more quickly and in natural language that can be readily understood and acted upon.

In order to make sense of the data inputs, the engine gets programmed with company-specific information. After that, it’s ready to make reports without human intervention. The process is a lot more efficient than using people for the same work.

Can Arria crack finance?

Arria is aiming to broaden out into other industries. Obviously, it takes time to build an expert knowledge base in new areas. But the technology is already being used by the Met Office. Modern weather forecasting relies on the interpretation of massive amounts of raw data. This is where that ‘scalability’ comes into its own. The NLG Engine can write a detailed three-day weather forecast for 5,000 different locations in just one minute. A single forecaster would take six weeks to create this amount of output. And the forecasts can be instantly re-written as the data inputs change.

As well as oil and gas, Arria is targeting the financial services sector. But it doesn’t yet have an anchor customer. It will be very interesting to see how quickly it can add new clients in energy and make headway in the financial services space. Arria enjoys a decent valuation, so sales and marketing to build new commercial relationships is going to be important. The market is clearly impressed by the technology though. The automation of an expert’s role in this way is hugely impressive – the machines are taking over!

SMALL CAP MOVERS: 2013 a good year for FTSE AIM 100 - barring last-minute festive surprises


By Jamie Ashcroft, Proactive Investors

PUBLISHED: 14:55, 6 December 2013 | UPDATED: 14:55, 6 December 2013



The idea behind Arria NLG’s (up 116 per cent today at 352.5p) launch on AIM this week was to raise the group’s profile, and judging by the quick rise in the share price this was duly achieved. The software firm specialises in natural language generation (NLG) – which basically means turning hard numerical data contextually into words and simple English (or other ‘human’ language).


After just two days on the market its shares are now worth almost three times more than the price of its last pre-float funding – in which it raised £9.85mln at £1 per share.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2519427/2013-good-year-FTSE-AIM-100--barring-minute-festive-surprises.html

The ARRIA NLG Engine is monitoring large-scale, mission-critical machinery located on oil and gas production platforms in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

A typical deepwater oil platform is a highly complex, integrated, industrial production facility operating 24/7/365. Its production capabilities depend on a number of large scale rotating machines such as turbines, compressors, pumps, generators and engines. An oil platform operates in one of the most challenging production environments in the world. The production output as well as the safety of the oil platform both depend on the reliable performance of its rotating equipment. When equipment begins to perform outside acceptable operating envelopes, embedded sensors detect the issue and cause alerts to be generated. In addition to rotating equipment, alerts cover a wide range of sources including wells, facilities, and sub-surface equipment. These alerts are monitored by automated systems and highly skilled engineers.

An Example of the Current Monitoring Situation in Complex, Multi-Asset, Surveillance Centres
1.Automated systems monitor data streams and raise alerts.
2. Expert analysts assess whether alerts are valid and need to be further investigated.
3. For valid alerts, the experts write a situational analysis summation which includes context and background.
4. Subject matter experts then further analyse the situation, and create a service recommendation for the equipment.

The problem is that while current monitoring systems generate alerts and notifications, they cannot articulate what has gone wrong. So expert engineers with decades of experience are required to analyse the alerts. But there is such a vast array of equipment generating so many thousands of alerts, it is impossible for human experts to analyse them all. Some control centre operators have likened this data overload experience to “drinking from a fire hose”. Further, the level of expertise required is so high, there is an acute shortage of human experts available to accurately analyse all of the alerts. As a result, alerts are missed and production suffers.

The Arria NLG Engine Effectively Solves This Problem

The Arria NLG Engine effectively becomes the expert. It instantly, automatically, continuously, accurately and effortlessly:
•Reviews every alert even in the absence of the expert.
•Performs analysis that determines what the alerts mean.
• Provides a plain English report identifying which alerts need the expert’s attention and provides the situational awareness that allows the engineer to immediately formulate an action plan to correct the cause of the alerts.

The Arria NLG Engine determines and reports the problem and solution faster than the engineer ever could. It saves each engineer hours of analysis and report writing per day. It works around the clock—never sleeping.1

The ARRIA NLG Engine can write a detailed 3-day weather forecast for 5,000 locations in one minute


Meteorological systems are highly sophisticated with a mass of weather data captured and available as weather changes happen moment by moment across the world. The biggest challenge is the highly skilled human effort of first interpreting this raw weather information, and then writing specific forecasts to inform the general public and industry.

Since 2009, ARRIA PLC has been working with a leading national weather service and others to embed the expertise of weather forecasters into the Arria NLG Engine. To date, the ARRIA NLG Engine™ has been used to create several types of weather reporting:

Site Specific: The ARRIA NLG Engine can be configured to write on-demand, detailed weather forecasts for any site specific purpose in the world such as docking supply boats and flaring excess gas on offshore oil rigs in the North Sea, harvesting on a farm, or even for the weather at the beach you want to go to. In most countries there are tens of thousands of locations of public interest where it would be useful to have a detailed local forecast but, instead, there are only generic forecasts available for big regions like “the south east”, because of the time required to write these forecasts.

Now, our NLG software takes our existing weather service client’s complex raw data inputs and can write a detailed 3-day weather forecast for 5,000 locations within a single minute—and can update them instantly. Right now, our NLG software tackles tasks that would be impossible for forecasters to complete manually. It would take a forecaster 1.5 months to create the equivalent of our system’s one-minute output.

We envision that the ARRIA NLG Engine will be used to generate instant, personalised, localised, on-demand mobile phone content such as our detailed site specific written weather forecasts, to any smart phone user in the world.

Area Specific: The ARRIA NLG Engine can write on-demand weather forecasts for specific geographic areas, and it can also write area specific hazard warnings such as in the complex process of forecasting for gritting and other winter road maintenance procedures.

The Core Arria NLG Weather Engine

Weather reports play a key role in marine, aviation, ground transportation, finance, retail, space and defence. The ARRIA NLG weather reporting technologies benefit these categories. We are currently working with our existing national weather service client to develop a user configurable ARRIA NLG Core Weather Engine. This Engine creates the potential for a completely new weather forecasting paradigm: an NLG Engine that will be able to output on demand, detailed, weather reports for any site, for any area, for any purpose, for any period of time; an NLG Engine with a user-configurable interface that could include:
•Natural Language Output Options that Control:

The grammatical formation of sentences, the variety of the language.

• Format Options:

Written text, annotated graphs and maps, speech.

•Geographic Place Options:

Site specific forecasts, area wide forecasts, point-to-point forecasts, road and surface temperature forecasts (used by the road industry and commercial aviation for runway information).

• Window Options:

24 hour forecasts, 2–5 day forecasts, etc.

• Primary Weather Area Options:

Wind, rain, temperature, etc.

•Primary Market Area Options:

Public, Military, Road, Rail, Retail, Construction, Financial, Commercial and Private Air, Marine.

• Delivery Options:

iPad app, iPhone app, SMS, RSS feeds, websites, fax, email.

NLG Software is helping comfort the parents of babies in neo-natal intensive care


Arria NLG Chief Scientist Ehud Reiter has this vision for NLG in the healthcare field: “One day soon, NLG will be a great empowering tool for people in everyday life, giving them understandable access to medical information about themselves in a form and language that is appropriate for them.”

The BabyTalk research project, an ambitious undertaking of the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, others, and a team that included Arria NLG Chief Scientists Ehud Reiter and Yaji Sripada (working as faculty members of the University of Aberdeen), played an important role during the due diligence phase of the acquisition of Data2Text Limited by Arria NLG. It provided a strong proof point in the healthcare vertical and showed the potential NLG technologies have to deliver value in an environment as mission critical as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at a major hospital.

The BabyTalk case study is included as a case study because it is valuable in the process of understanding the technology. Arria NLG does not own the intellectual property (IP) associated with the BabyTalk Research Project. The IP is the property of the University of Aberdeen. Such IP is an earlier version of NLG which is superseded by the Arria NLG Engine™ technologies. Arria NLG Chief Scientists remain active in the BabyTalk project as academics while Arria NLG staff provide ongoing support services for the BabyTalk modules that are active in the NICU.



BabyTalk: In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), babies are connected to sensors and systems that electronically monitor, record, report and display the condition of each baby. Doctors, nurses and other medical staff are trained to interpret and use this data to aid them in the care of the baby. The data is also used by medical staff to generate a variety of reports such as shift changeover reports and reports to the parents of the baby.

For the BabyTalk project an early version of NLG software was built by the University to: a) embody the expertise of both the medical specialists and the nurses who attend to the babies, b) accept input data from the NICU monitoring systems and c) automatically write three kinds of reports, for three different purposes, from the same digital input data. BabyTalk involved three modules:

BabyTalk Doctor: This module generated written summaries of clinical data over a relatively short period—roughly 45 minutes—to support decision making by doctors and nurses.

• BabyTalk Nurse: This module generated partial shift summaries, focusing on important events related to a baby’s respiration and circulation, in addition to background information, current status and potential problems. Handover is a complex process, and ineffective handover can endanger patient safety. There is no established best practice for handover. BabyTalk Nurse showed that the handover problem is solvable. It showed that an NLG computer system which automatically generates understandable and helpful shift summary texts from a complex, state-of-the-art patient information system holding a large amount of heterogeneous data is viable.

• BabyTalk Family: This module generated easy-to-understand, plain English reports on the medical condition of babies in neonatal care for families. These reports are available online to the infant’s parents, providing a simple summary of their child’s progress. When a newborn baby is admitted to a NICU, parents are frequently overwhelmed by the experience. The neonatal environment in which their baby is looked after can cause feelings of worry, confusion, and helplessness. Parents would often like more information about what is happening to their baby: the baby’s current weight, oxygen levels, milk feeding quantities, and so on. This, coupled with understanding, enables parents to adapt and cope with the situation. This sort of information is important because it helps parents to take on their parental role, as well as get involved with the care of their child’s delicate emotional state. BabyTalk Family solves this problem. It extracts the key facts of interest to parents (which are distinct from the key facts of interest to doctors and nurses), and generates a textual report which humanises the medical facts for parents, presenting them in a way which is both understandable and sensitive to parents. It automatically generates these easy-to-understand reports and makes them available to the infant’s parents online, thus providing easy and immediate access to a simple summary of their child’s progress.

Big Data ,,I kind of get it now , very clever.

:-)) I think posts 21-23 show what an exciting company this is going to be in the future.

leaving the merits of the company to one side, this is a very dificult stock to trade (deal in) ..... the spread is ~10% and furthermore, it is totally controlled by 3 x MMs all of whom will currently only deal in blocks of 1,000

cynic 102m shares in issue do you know the free float percentage?

not off hand, but i'ld bet it isn't more than say 35%

cynic almost spot on admission document states 36.3% interesting explanatory video on their website but very little financial information.

i seem to remember reading that they wanted to get some public exposure or somesuch, and didn't actually need to raise money

cynic was thinking more of EBITDA projections etc

Nearly tripled in value. Rise due to such a shortage of shares, mm's having to lift price. May well fall further to a realistic value. Happy to sit with free shares. I was out for the day and to be honest thought the sp may still rise.

very hard to evaluate "a realistic price" and ditto with WAND, as both are at the very cutting edge of new technology

Wand may as well cynic fall back some more. It has raced ahead of itself of late. :-))

NLG I am only guessing may not drop to a realistic price due to its possible prospects.

on that basis, "a realistic price" could be deemed to be even higher :-)

Is that ramping ? :-)) Just thought I would pose the question. Future Big data prospects have driven WAND.

Pulled this from the company site.

A key objective of Big Data analytics is to enable plain English narratives to be formed which can be used by people to make better decisions and to work more efficiently, adding value to business. Today, this process of producing what is known as "actionable analytics" still depends on intervention by human experts. The shortage of such human experts is a significant limitation on releasing the value locked within Big Data. The Arria NLG Engine has the potential to unlock that value by effectively undertaking the expert's role.

The Arria NLG Engine can automatically communicate its conclusions in actionable plain English narratives which one would believe were written by an expert member of the organisation staff. The Arria NLG Engine is a force multiplier, since, once embodied in software, the expert knowledge can be replicated effectively. This allows the Arria NLG Engine to do the work of many experts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Shares - Accounts for the year to September 2012 reveal the company made £6.5 million of losses on just £62,554 of revenue. Cranking up commercialisation and boosting recurring sales are the main ambitions for 2014. No new money is being raised at the float as the company secured $40 million of fourth-round funding earlier this month, with a final $6.1 million instalment to be released on attainment of the market quotation.

sp down another 11% are we nearing the bottom?

qui sait?

The fall seems to have stopped, with investors buying in.

Buyers were appearing at the 160p price at closing time

looks like tomorrow the price should start the upward move again.

today was consolidation ( or tag of war ) where buyers are subdue by the last sellers of the pack as the price improved.

I see it climbed to 165p today. In this one for the long term

And that was the point where the last sellers of the pack sold as the bid improved

been lookin, but obviously in the wrong place. where can i find an application form for the Rossly IPO? or as a PI can't i take part in this IPO.

Alex

robertalexander, the IPO was meant to be at the back end of summer. They had supposedly accelerated their float plans following the stunning success of server replication expert WANdisco. Not heard a whisper yet of the IPO.


Company site

http://www.rosslynanalytics.com/

IPO now looking like 2014 from below taken from their company site.



Amati Global Investors supports the charge as Rosslyn Analytics closes £2.1m funding round

by Erin Hunter | Dec 11, 2013


Investment to support R&D and growth strategies



London, November 11 2013 – Rosslyn Analytics, a leader in cloud-based data management and analytics, today announced that it has completed a £2.1 million investment. New investors included Amati Global Investors. The company’s principal existing investor, IQ Capital, also continued their support for Rosslyn, enabling the Company to take a further step towards its proposed IPO in 2014.

The new funding, which was supported by Cenkos, will be used to further expand international operations in the US and Europe, grow sales and marketing and invest in developing new product capabilities.

Frustrated by the high costs, extended time-to-market and inflexibility of legacy, on-premise data management and analytics solutions, FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and midmarket organisations including Aberdeen Asset Management, Clifford Chance and Coca-Cola Enterprises, are using Rosslyn Analytics’ RAPid platform to generate new opportunities from their data, drive deeper business intelligence and improve competitive performance. This unique value proposition, coupled with Rosslyn’s proven experience of working with high profile customers and partners served as the cornerstones driving the investment.

“Today’s businesses face the challenge of devising new strategies for extracting the most valuable analysis from their corporate data, and a cloud-based approach provides the greatest ease and flexibility for delivering these. For Amati, Rosslyn Analytics represents one of the most innovative and exciting prospects in this market by giving organisations accessible tools to provide sophisticated analysis of large and complex data sets,” said Dr Paul Jourdan, CEO, Amati Global Investors. “We have been impressed not just by Rosslyn’s product offering, but also by the way in which the company has been able to engage effectively with some very significant corporate customers and partners.”

“Good data is no longer good enough,” said Charles Clark, CEO, Rosslyn Analytics. “At Rosslyn, we’re addressing the critical requirement of supporting leading organisations to make strategic decisions, by enabling them to integrate and transform their raw and dirty data that resides in multiple systems into a foundation of increasingly valuable information. This disruptive technology is enabling companies to unlock the hidden value in their data, uncover new and valuable insights and accelerate innovation. The ability to rapidly integrate and connect data from multiple sources is a new frontier in enterprise analytics and Rosslyn is leading it.”

Thanks DC, i take it as it has been postponed until 2014 then IPO details will be released a bit nearer the time. Would hate to miss an opportunity if it is half as good as NLG was.

Alex

SP 140p down another 11% on low volume

In shares - with just two clients, minimal revenues and cash outflows, Arria may be in the fierce glare of the public markets gaze too early. It must now deliver and any disappointments could prompt a backlash.

More buys than sells and yet share price down, market makers are widening the price to cover their backside as the headline index is firmly lower.
I will keep a watch as is progressing

The market cap- to-sales multiple of nearly 1000 times. As shares states that is an enormous amount of faith to put into such a young company.

Has finally decided to move forward on news so I bought a few ........

Arria gives Keynote Address at Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference

Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that a video of Dr. Robert Dale's Keynote Address, which opened the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") 2013 Intelligent Energy Conference in Dubai on 28 October 2013, is now available to view online via the following link:

http://www.intelligentenergy-me.com/home/Keynote/Arria-Video/

The conference, which was sponsored by Saudi Aramco, is considered to be one of the industry's most important events bringing together over 2,000 Oil & Gas industry professionals. The event focuses on cutting edge technologies and developments in the field of Intelligent Energy with industry and academic experts being invited to present. The title of Dr Dale's address was "The Articulate Machine" and was focused on the potential applications of NLG technologies in the oil and gas industry.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arria, commented: "Dr Dale's address was a major showcasing of Arria's technology to an audience consisting of key representatives from the world's leading Oil & Gas companies. The Society of Petroleum Engineers has more than 110,000 members in 141 countries, and Arria is delighted to have presented to this significant network."

Samsun.........do you have a twin???????

from advfn...................

Master RSI 18 Dec'13 - 10:26 - 67 of 67 0 0

The reason there was news earlier ........

Arria gives Keynote Address at Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference

Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that a video of Dr. Robert Dale's Keynote Address, which opened the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") 2013 Intelligent Energy Conference in Dubai on 28 October 2013, is now available to view online via the following link:

hxxp://www.intelligentenergy-me.com/home/Keynote/Arria-Video/

The conference, which was sponsored by Saudi Aramco, is considered to be one of the industry's most important events bringing together over 2,000 Oil & Gas industry professionals. The event focuses on cutting edge technologies and developments in the field of Intelligent Energy with industry and academic experts being invited to present. The title of Dr Dale's address was "The Articulate Machine" and was focused on the potential applications of NLG technologies in the oil and gas industry.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arria, commented: "Dr Dale's address was a major showcasing of Arria's technology to an audience consisting of key representatives from the world's leading Oil & Gas companies. The Society of Petroleum Engineers has more than 110,000 members in 141 countries, and Arria is delighted to have presented to this significant network."

Shell Extension Agreement

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23 December 2013

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Shell Exploration and Production Company Extension Agreement



Arria NLG plc (trading on AIM under the symbol LON:NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces an extension to its 2013 Services Agreement and Application Service Provider (ASP) Services Agreement with Shell Exploration and Production Company ("Shell"), a US subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc. The extension is on a month by month basis (starting 1 January 2014) until such time as new agreements are signed between Arria and Shell.

The terms of the extension include Shell's continued usage of the Arria NLG Engine in the Gulf of Mexico and for ongoing support work. Arria and Shell are also discussing the project definition to be included in longer term agreements for Shell's usage of the Arria NLG Engine and associated services, on terms and conditions to be determined

Launch of NLG Engine 3.0

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("Arria", the "Company" or the "Group")



Launch of NLG Engine 3.0



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces the release of the Arria NLG Engine 3.0. This latest version of Arria's NLG engine has the ability to integrate graphical information derived from big data sources with the existing NLG reporting capabilities to provide even more effective decision-support.

Feedback from Arria's clients highlighted the considerable value of embedding NLG generated alerts into a graphical interface environment in real time. As a result of this tight integration, reports produced by the new Arria NLG 3.0 engine support faster, more effective decision-making in high intensity operational environments.

Scientific research on intensive care units conducted by the founding scientists of Arria at the University of Aberdeen (between 2006 and 2010) concluded that medical staff made better decisions when presented with reports that include a combination of text and graphics.

The findings of that research have resulted in these capabilities being translated for use in the Oil and Gas industry. When an equipment alert signals the existence of a problem, the combination of text and annotated graphics makes it easier and quicker for an engineer to understand what the condition of that equipment is and to make the right decision at the right time.

Arria currently has several patents pending in relation to the Arria NLG Engine 3.0.

Professor Ehud Reiter, Chief Scientist of Arria commented:

"Our research shows that in a decision-support context, some types of information are best presented via graphics and some types via text, with the effectiveness of each modality being dependent upon context such as the expertise of the user and the fault in question.



"The new capabilities of the Arria NLG Engine allow Arria systems to present information in a combination of text and graphics, using the optimal modality. The configurability allows the intelligent optimisation of modalities to be externally specified by domain experts. This more effective information presentation leads to better and quicker decision making."

Presentation at SPE Conference 2014

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RNS Number : 5737B

Arria NLG PLC

05 March 2014






5 March 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria to give presentation at SPE Intelligent Energy Conference 2014



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that the Company will present at the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") 2014 Intelligent Energy Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on 3 April 2014.

Arria will present in a session entitled "Enhancing Value Through Technology" discussing Big Data innovations to improve risk management and decision support. Arria's Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert Dale, and Tom A. Moroney, Deepwater Technology Deployment & Geoscience Expertise Manager for Shell Upstream Americas, will present "The Articulate Machine: Natural Language Generation Decision Support".

The SPE conference, which is sponsored in 2014 by BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Tessella, is one of the industry's most important events bringing together over 2,400 Oil & Gas industry professionals. The conference focuses on cutting edge technologies and developments in the field of intelligent energy with presentations by industry and academic experts.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arria, commented, "As far as the Company is concerned, no other event attracts such a large and expert audience in the field of intelligent energy.

"We are scheduled to present alongside Shell's Tom Moroney, who co-authored the conference paper with Arria, and we are delighted to have this opportunity to showcase our innovative technology for a group of key industry players and decision makers."

Up another 9%, 86p - 105p in two days . Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that the Company will present at the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") 2014 Intelligent Energy Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on 3 April 2014.

New Data Science Framework Software Release

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RNS Number : 3819F

Arria NLG PLC

24 April 2014






24 April 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria to release new Data Science Framework software at co-hosted Pumps and Pipes event in Houston



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces it will co-host a special Data Science event in Houston on April 30, 2014, where Chief Scientist Professor Ehud Reiter will release novel Data Science Framework software that provides improved knowledge capture of subject matter expertise into artificial intelligence software. Pumps and Pipes, who are co-hosting the event with Arria, is a unique Houston-based technology interchange between the Oil and Gas, Medicine and Aerospace industries. The event will be attended by both oil and gas engineers and medical clinicians, the two professions that will be the first to benefit from the new software.

The Arria NLG Engine is a cutting-edge technology that works with big data sets and disparate structured data to generate natural language narratives that support faster and higher quality expert decision-making. Initial applications of the technology that are already live include an on-demand site-specific UK weather reporting service as well as oil and gas facilities surveillance in the Gulf of Mexico. Arria's new Data Science Framework enhances these solutions by allowing for easier connection to disparate big data sets, higher quality analytics, and faster knowledge capture of subject matter expertise into operational software.

Professor Reiter says Arria's Data Science Framework has arisen from requests from both engineers and doctors who want to fill the gap in the big data industry by streamlining the twin processes of capturing the knowledge of their subject matter experts and applying this knowledge to make sense of multiple data streams. "We hear the same message from Chief Petroleum Engineers in the Middle East as we do from cardiovascular surgeons in the USA: subject matter expertise is their most valued asset. So by reducing the time it takes to capture this expertise and the time it takes to make sense of the data, our new Data Science Framework speeds up the development of applications that automate insights and generate narratives, adding an unprecedented capability for faster and higher quality decision support."

Professor Reiter, who co-wrote the definitive book on building Natural Language Generation systems in the 1990s with his Arria colleague, Dr Robert Dale, says, "When you look at what else is out there in both medicine and oil and gas, the only significant contender we keep bumping up against is IBM Watson. But IBM Watson is a very expensive product that aims to provide a universal solution to the general problem of answering questions, whereas our goal is to help doctors and engineers make faster and higher quality decisions by giving them natural language explanations of what's going on. We go beyond answering questions to tell the stories that are hidden in the data."

Alan Lumsden, founder of Pumps and Pipes, Professor & Chairman Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Director Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, says "We are delighted to have Professor Reiter speaking at a Pumps and Pipes event where our motto is 'the solution to my problem is in someone else's toolkit'. I have had a look inside Arria's toolkit and I'm sure if our members can unlock the value hidden in our data the Arria way our industries will be transformed. Data Science is the new frontier and I'm convinced, one day we will look back and wonder how we ever functioned without natural language generation technology assisting our decision-making."

3 year Agreement with Shell

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Arria NLG PLC

23 May 2014






23 May 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria signs 3-year Agreement with Shell for NLG deployment



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces a new 3-year agreement between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Arria Data2Text Limited, and Shell Exploration & Production Company ("Shell").

This agreement provides Arria with annual fees for non-exclusive use of the Arria NLG Engine to expand NLG decision support technologies to Shell's offshore platforms across parts of the Americas, plus the adoption of Arria's NLG services expanding from existing Facilities NLG narratives to further service categories in upstream operations across parts of the Americas.

Upon full performance of the agreement, which is effective from 1 June 2014, Shell undertakes to pay Arria US$5-10 million over three years. A large proportion of these fees are annual and ongoing base licence and use-per-platform fees for Facilities NLG narratives to offshore platforms in parts of the Americas. One-time configuration and deployment fees payable upon agreed milestones are also included in the agreement, and the fee structure makes provision for deployment and usage beyond the Americas.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented:

"We are pleased to announce this agreement because it reinforces our existing relationship with Shell and provides us the ability to expand our technology across Shell's operating units. Our investment in R&D has helped our technology evolve and today it is more mature, scalable and adaptable than ever. Our articulate intelligence solutions aim to increase profits, lower risk and improve operations for our customers. The benefits and the scalability will help with the faster deployment of our technology within Shell."

The Arria NLG Engine:

The Arria NLG Engine is software at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Computational Linguistics.

Key features:

- It allows Arria clients to capture in software the human expertise used in both analysing data and in communicating the information that data contains.

- This makes it possible to automatically write reports that are indistinguishable from those that the

human expert would write about outlier-based alerts in the data.

- But because the knowledge is embodied in software, it produces results in seconds rather than in

hours, and it can be replicated, scaled up, and made available globally, 24/7/365.

Interim Results

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Arria NLG PLC

12 June 2014








Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Interim Results for the six months ended 31 March 2014











Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces its Interim Results for the six months ended 31 March 2014.



Operational highlights



● Extended existing agreement with oil & gas super-major client into 2014 with subsequent announcement in May 2014 of new three year agreement

● UK Met Office adds NLG-authored narratives to its 5 day forecasts on its Met Invent website

● Growing awareness of NLG in the oil & gas industry - invited to present key-note speech and participate at Society of Petroleum Engineers conferences in Dubai & Utrecht

● Significant and experienced appointments made to Group Board and management team

● Michael Higgins & Paul Kidney appointed as Non-Executive Directors to Arria's Board

● Christopher Messina appointed in New York as Senior Vice President, Business Development to expand Arria's Financial Services practice

● Continued progress made in development of the Group's patent program

● Completion of Arria NLG Studio and launch of the Language Factory

● Deployment of version 3.0 of the Arria NLG Engine

Financial

● Revenues up 57% to £330k (£210k HY13)

● Operating costs excluding amortisation and share based payment charges down 20% to £3.9 million (£4.9 million HY13)

● Concluded second 2013 private placement raising c.US$15.8 million

● Completed the acquisition of Data2Text Limited for consideration of £3.125 million in cash and issue of ordinary shares equivalent to approximately 22.59% of the share capital of the Company

● Completed introduction of Arria's ordinary shares and warrants to trading on the London Stock Exchange ("LSE") AIM market ("AIM")



Commenting on the results, Stuart Rogers, Arria Chairman and Chief Executive, said:



"Arria has delivered significant progress during the first half of this financial year in successfully executing the Company's strategic plan. Primary accomplishments being the successful conclusion of the acquisition of Data2Text Limited in October 2013, followed by the admission to trading of the Company's shares on the London AIM market in December 2013 - both of which position the Group well to grow and optimise the commercial realisation of its owned Natural Language Generation technologies."

Agreement with Leading Aviation Systems Provider

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RNS Number : 1746U

Arria NLG PLC

14 October 2014








14 October 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Proof of Concept Agreement with a Leading Systems Provider to the Aviation Industry



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces a new collaborative proof of concept agreement with a leading provider of power systems controls intelligence to the aviation industry (the "POC Agreement").



The POC Agreement provides for a pilot application to use Arria's NLG technology for narrative summaries on the data generated by on-wing turbine engines. These data driven summaries will enable airline operations teams to further optimise their maintenance or refurbishment of jet engines.



The project should result in the more efficient handling of the vast amounts of inflight engine performance data, enabling the maintenance programmes to be conducted with greater efficiency and at a lower cost for both the service provider and the airline operators. Successful completion and acceptance of the pilot NLG application could lead to further development, deployment and licensing agreements and new revenue streams for Arria.



Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "This is an exciting development for Arria in that this POC Agreement will leverage our extensive work with complex rotating equipment in the Oil & Gas Industry, developing applications in the Aviation Industry that will deliver efficiency gains and other cost benefits. Given turbines are such critical and widely deployed pieces of equipment in so many major industries - Oil & Gas, Aviation, Energy, and Defence - this agreement represents a significant opportunity to extend the reach of Arria's NLG applications. We welcome the opportunity to apply our scientific leadership and highly developed NLG Engine with a leading provider of power systems controls. Following a successful pilot application our intention is to progress to revenue earning contracts with this important new client."



The Arria NLG Engine:



The Arria NLG Engine is the software at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Computational Linguistics. Key features of the Arria NLG Engine include:



· allowing Arria clients to capture, in software, the human expertise used in both analysing data and in communicating the information that data contains;

· making it possible to automatically write reports that are indistinguishable from those that a human expert would write to convey actionable conclusions; and

· because the knowledge is embodied in software, the Arria NLG Engine produces results in seconds rather than hours and can be replicated, scaled up, and made available globally, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.

New Agreement with Major Insurance Company
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15 January 2015





15 January 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria NLG" or the "Company")



New Agreement with Major Insurance Company



Arria NLG (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces a new framework agreement (the "Framework Agreement") with a major insurance company. Arria's newest client is one of the largest general insurers in Canada and a wholly-owned subsidiary of a global multinational insurance company.



The Framework Agreement provides for a pilot application to use Arria's NLG technology to create monthly management reporting on critical aspects of one of the insurance company's strategic business lines and forms the basis for deeper collaboration. The parties contemplate further development, deployment and licensing additions to the Framework Agreement upon successful completion of the pilot application, resulting in additional revenue streams for Arria NLG.



Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG, commented: "This agreement with one of the world's leading insurance companies is a great opportunity for Arria to expand its powerful Natural Language Generation technologies further into the Financial Services industry. Working with this insurance company, we will develop new forms of management reporting and help them gain greater insights by leveraging mission critical operational data from their internal applications.

"Arria's technology helps large corporations better understand what their data is trying to tell them, in a timely fashion, and in natural language reporting that is tailored to the various audiences within the company. All of those core capabilities and benefits are central in the initial project with this insurance company. This is Arria's second Financial Services client and its fifth new client in the past six months."

IBM Watson Partnership Agreement
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Arria NLG PLC
26 January 2015





26 January 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria NLG" or the "Company")



IBM WatsonTM Signs Partnership Agreement with Arria



Arria NLG (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces an early stage partnership with the IBM Watson Group.

As part of the Watson Developer Community, Arria NLG will prototype analytics products for the Oil and Gas sector. IBM Watson is a cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer by understanding natural language, generating hypotheses based on evidence and learning as it goes.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG, commented: "We see strong commercial opportunity in the combination of IBM Watson's deep query functionality being combined with the Arria NLG Engine's ability to generate natural language and text. There are innumerable use cases in the oil and gas industry for our combined tool sets, which we look forward to pursuing with IBM Watson Group."

HAAAAAAAAAAAAA


26 Jan Westhouse... 94.00 Buy


Shares -Arria remains investment black hole


You don’t have to be Sherlock to recognise the coup that today’s Watson deal is for Arria NLG (NLG:AIM). It’s certainly got investors excited, the shares jumping 65% on Monday to 40.5p. Teaming up with the cognitive systems arm of ‘Big Blue’, or IBM (IBM:NYSE) to use its proper name, could lead to exciting new computing breakthroughs, maybe.

Watson is effectively IBM’s answer to future computing, using hypothesis generation, dynamic learning and natural language to think more like a human than a machine. It’s a fascinating branch of computer science, and one where Arria has developed some very interesting natural language generation technology of its own.

Arria

But fascinating does not earn revenues and there is a very real risk that neither will this partnership. Arria is currently trading on more than 30-times the piddling £2 million of revenues forecast for 2015 after today’s leap but is still roughly 40% below its £102 million IPO value in barely more than a year. It is also still saddled with the same old challenges. It’s very small, relies on barely a handful of customers, mainly in the battered oil industry, and is burning through wads of cash, more than £7 million last year to end September. It has £1.7 million left on its books which means investors can expect another cash call soon, possibly before April Fool’s Day. Sheer luck may play a big part in Arria’s future success hopes.

Five Year Licensing Agreement with FarmLink, LLC.
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02 March 2015





2 March 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Five Year Licensing Agreement with FarmLink, LLC.



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces the successful completion of the Company's initial development agreement with FarmLink, LLC ("FarmLink").

The initial agreement with FarmLink was announced on 13 October 2014. Following the successful conclusion of that development project, the parties have entered into a five year revenue licensing agreement for Arria's NLG engine to be an integral part of FarmLink's service and data offerings.

The focus of this licencing agreement is on Arria's support for FarmLink's reporting services based on FarmLink's TrueHarvest data. The TrueHarvest model has evolved to provide valuable, field-level analysis to FarmLink's farmer clients and their agronomists. TrueHarvest is the first and only yield benchmarking service that accurately shows farmers the full range of performance potential for their fields and management zones. Arria's reporting application will use the TrueHarvest information to build the gap map and deliver agronomic insights in natural language reporting.

A Kansas City, Missouri based company, FarmLink offers an innovative and unique set of services to help farmers improve productivity and profitability. Through its TrueHarvest yield benchmarking service, FarmLink provides farmers and their advisors with precise, detailed and actionable comparisons that inform resource decisions, and help increase productivity and profit.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "We are delighted to be deploying Natural Language Generation narratives for FarmLink's clients. The initial engagement work was completed in a matter of months, leading to this full licensing agreement. The licensing agreement is long term, has solid revenues that can grow over time with FarmLink's business and demonstrates the powerful value of harnessing Arria's NLG technology to the significant analytical tasks modern agriculture demands.

"The speed with which FarmLink's initial NLG application was completed is a testament to the continual evolution of Arria's NLG technology and to the significant capabilities of Arria's development team.

"Arria's NLG engine continues to evolve and its robust developer toolkit gives us a significant competitive edge in our ability to rapidly develop NLG applications. We continue to invest in the science of NLG, R&D, new functionality, application development and client support.

"Alongside this we have reduced our operating costs and plan to reduce future cost growth resulting from further contract wins by building an internally resourced offshoring component to our development capacity. FarmLink, our growing customer base and our shareholders will be beneficiaries of these cost management developments."

Scott Robinson, President of FarmLink, stated:

"Data has the power to change farming as we know it, but we must be able to make that data work for individual farmers in actionable ways. At FarmLink, we're doing just that by bringing benchmarking capabilities to farmers for the first time. Natural Language Generation allows FarmLink to scale its business of providing actionable insights to every corn, wheat or soybean farmer in America."

BG Group. Heads of Agreement
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Arria NLG PLC
03 March 2015



3 March 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria NLG and BG Group Sign Heads of Agreement



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that BG Group plc has today signed a heads of agreement to research and evaluate the use of Arria's NLG engine and technologies for the real time narration of key asset performance, risk factors and predictive maintenance.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "Arria NLG and BG Group have been in discussions for months regarding the potential use of Arria's NLG technology in a number of BG Group's global operations. The Oil & Gas industry is an early adopter of Arria's NLG technologies, it remains a key industry focus for us, and we look forward to a deepening relationship with BG Group."

Framework Licensing Agreement
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RNS Number : 1142I
Arria NLG PLC
23 March 2015





23 March 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Framework Licensing Agreement with Global Financial Services Company



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that it has entered into a Framework Licensing Agreement with a global financial services company, headquartered in Australia, for the purposes of creating automated reporting across financial services business lines.

This two year Framework Licensing Agreement allows for Arria's NLG Engine to be an integral part of the financial services company's research and reporting capabilities for improved customer and management reporting.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "We are delighted to welcome this global financial services company as a new client of Arria NLG, licensing our technology to deploy Natural Language Generation narratives that will help produce research and reporting for their personnel and customers. We look forward to helping them build on their long held reputation for innovation in the financial services industry by assisting them to succeed in their NLG ambitions.

This new Arria NLG client will be working closely with our Sydney-based NLG Development Centre, led by Dr Robert Dale, Arria NLG's Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Scientist. This collaboration strengthens Arria NLG's presence in the Asia-Pacific Region."

was yesterday's dramatic drop due to a leak on below .....

Arria NLG said its contract with Shell Exploration & Production Company, which was announced on 23 May 2014, has been terminated by notice given by Shell in accordance with its terms.


i'm sorry to say that this is another company in the same sort of league as BLUR and WAND

One to avoid, although a great rise in the early days.


Shares -Interim results are due in June, but there’s a very good chance Arria might not make it that far.

Up 153% today, perhaps down 153% tomorrow . :-))

why-arria-nlg-surged-491%

Bought in on the back finalisation of funding news due in the next week or two.

Up today over 15% ?

Up 22% today, just goes to show, never write a company off.

Funding update
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RNS Number : 0178V
Arria NLG PLC
04 August 2015



4 August 2015



Arria NLG plc ("Arria" or the "Company")



Capital Funding Update





Arria NLG plc (AIM:NLG), a technology leader in Natural Language Generation ("NLG"), today provides the following update on its recent capital raising.



On 30 June 2015, the Company announced it had raised £3.75 million (approximately US$6.0 million) through a combination of the subscription of new convertible loan notes and the early drawdown of an existing loan note. Of the gross £3.75 million of funds committed in June 2015, the Company now expects to receive, before costs, approximately £2.9 million (US$4,560,000) during the next two weeks, with the balance expected during August 2015.

Grant of US patent
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Arria NLG PLC
04 August 2015



4 August 2015



Arria NLG plc ("Arria" or the "Company")



Grant of US patent on Arria's Configurable Microplanner,

a key element of NLG Systems





Arria NLG plc (AIM:NLG), a technology leader in Natural Language Generation ("NLG"), is pleased to announce that it has received notice from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that its application for a patent on its configurable Microplanner will be granted. The inventor under the patent is Arria's Chief Scientist, Prof. Ehud Reiter. The configurable Microplanner is a key element of the Arria NLG Software Engine™, achieving a greater level of fluency and articulacy than the Directors of Arria believe is possible using less advanced NLG architectures. The Microplanner is directly configurable via the specification of rules dictating how sentences should be compiled from component words, phrases and context.



To be granted a patent for software, the patent application had to overcome objections based on a 2014 US Supreme Court case holding that the mere computer implementation of a business method is unpatentable. The US patent examiner has judged Arria's "Method and Apparatus for Configurable Microplanning" to be an innovation that contributes to the field of computer science. The innovations underlying this and Arria's two other US patents enhance the quality and authority of the plain English narratives being written by the Arria NLG Software Engine without human intervention.



Arria's patents and patent applications cover key NLG processes that the Company currently applies in weather reporting, oil & gas production, agronomy, aviation, travel, financial services and insurance. Arria's expanding patent portfolio brings additional strength to its plan to become the global leader in automating the analysis and writing of reports on big data generated throughout today's economy.



Prof. Ehud Reiter, Chief Scientist of Arria, commented: "This new patent protects a key part of the automation of the Natural Language Generation process that we believe significantly distinguishes our software from other players in the field. Older NLG models depend on two distinct processes: content determination (including data analysis) followed by linguistic rendering. Arria's Microplanning technology links them, affording a degree of control and flexibility that allows the Arria NLG Software Engine to create significantly more articulate reports and narratives."



Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria, stated: "With numerous additional patent applications currently filed and pending, this third US patent to be granted to Arria is part of a continuous stream of patentable innovations that Arria's science and engineering teams are producing. Arria's successful patenting programme confirms the Company as a leader in marketplace applications of NLG science. With Arria's help, machines are acquiring the artificial intelligence that allows them to generate and communicate language the way humans do, taking us far beyond templated scripts with dropped-in variables to a realm where our software can reason and communicate with the accuracy and authority of the expert, engineer or analyst whose tasks it automates."

Sharecast - Arria NLG receives first tranche of subscription funds

Wed, 19 August 2015




(ShareCast News) - Software development group Arria NLG has received part of the funds it raised in June through a subscription convertible loan notes and the early drawdown of an existing loan note.
The London-listed company has received £1m of the £3.8m and it expects to receive £1.9m by the end of the month, with the remaining balance expected to be received shortly after that.

Arria NLG shares were down 3.40% to 38.64p at 1438 BST on Wednesday.

New Agreement with a Consumer Goods Company
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RNS Number : 6880W
Arria NLG PLC
21 August 2015



21 August 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria NLG" or the "Company")



New Agreement with a Consumer Goods Company



Arria NLG (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, is pleased to announce a new proof of concept agreement ("PoC") with the Innovation Group at a global consumer products company.



The PoC provides for a pilot application using Arria NLG's technology to create a range of textual outputs relating to business intelligence metrics across their business lines. The parties contemplate further development, deployment and licensing upon successful completion of the PoC application.





Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG, commented: "We are delighted to have been chosen by one of the world's leading consumer goods companies to develop impactful, insightful artificial intelligence solutions in support of their analytical teams. This PoC is an excellent opportunity for our client to leverage the power of Arria NLG's technologies, providing a platform to further showcase our content generation capabilities in business intelligence."