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

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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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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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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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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."