| Language Computer Corporation | |
| Type: | Private |
| Foundation: | 1995 |
| Location: | Richardson, Texas |
| Num Employees: | 12 (2010) |
| Industry: | Software, Research and development, Natural Language Processing |
| Products: | Question Answering and Information Extraction products |
| Homepage: | LanguageComputer.com |
Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is a natural language processing research company based in Richardson, Texas. The company develops a variety of natural language processing products, including software for question answering, information extraction, and automatic summarization.[1]
Since its founding in 1995, the low-profile company has landed significant United States Government contracts, with $8,353,476 in contracts in 2006-2008.[2]
While the company has focused primarily on the government software market,[3] LCC has also used its technology to spin off three start-up companies. The first spin-off, known as Lymba Corporation, markets the PowerAnswer question answering product originally developed at LCC.[4] [5] In 2010, LCC's CEO, Andrew Hickl, co-founded two start-ups which made use of the company's technology. These included Swingly, an automatic question answering start-up,[6] and Extractiv, an information extraction service that was founded in partnership with Houston, Texas-based 80legs.[7]