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

3 year Agreement with Shell

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RNS Number : 8796H

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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RNS Number : 4287J

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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Arria NLG PLC
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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RNS Number : 0418D
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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RNS Number : 1752G
Arria NLG PLC
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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RNS Number : 3164G
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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RNS Number : 0180V
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.