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(12 June 2006, Cambridge, UK) Linguamatics, a leading player in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its use in text search and mining, announced today that Biogen Idec has extended its license to Linguamatics' I2E text search and mining software.

I2E has been deployed at Biogen Idec since early 2005 and is used by the library and information systems team to solve a diverse range of knowledge discovery problems across the business, in areas such as biomarker discovery, protein-disease associations and toxicology. The technology enables the discovery of key information from large collections of text documents that would be impossible or prohibitively time-consuming to find using conventional methods. The system's powerful linguistic capabilities can be used interactively to extract relevant facts and relationships from unstructured text documents and present them to the user in a structured form. No financial details of the deal were disclosed.

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