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CHICAGO & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2005--SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ:SPSS), a leading global provider of predictive analytics software, and Language Weaver, Inc., a leading global provider of statistical machine translation software (SMTS) for the automation of human language translation, today announced a jointly developed text-mining solution that can quickly translate and analyze critical information from government intelligence documents. The Language Weaver translation technology will be offered as an option with the latest versions of SPSS' text mining solutions, available now in the U.S. and Europe.

SPSS and Language Weaver announced their alliance in conjunction with the releases of the SPSS products LexiQuest Mine 3.1, a linguistics-based text mining application, and Text Mining for Clementine(TM) 3.1, which extends the Clementine data mining workbench to incorporate text data in analysis and predictive model building. These products combine with Language Weaver's recently announced 3.0 version of SMTS technology to deliver the ability to automatically translate Arabic and Chinese into English, and linguistically analyze the translated text to extract key concepts and gain deeper understanding.

Text Mining for Clementine and LexiQuest Mine also analyze Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish text.

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