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Subject: Commercial NL Review in High Technology
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 13:57:18 EST
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From:  Ken Laws 

The February issue of High Technology has a short article on
natural language interfaces (to databases, mainly).  The article
and business outlook section mention four NL systems currently
on the market, led by AIC's Intellect ($70,000, IBM mainframes),
Frey Associate's Themis ($24,000, DEC VAX-11), and Cognitive
System's interface.  (The fourth is not named, but some OEMs and
licensees of the first two are given.)  The article says that
four more systems are expected out this year, and discusses
Symantec's system ($400-$600, IBM PC with 256 Kbytes and hard disk)
and Cal Tech's ASK (HP9836 micro, licensed to HP and DEC).