Expert System Named SIIA CODiE Award Finalist for Best Text Analytics & Semantic Technology and Best Metadata Management solutions

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expert System (EXSY.MI), the leader in multilingual cognitive computing technology for the effective management of unstructured information today announced that Cogito and Luxid Webstudio were named finalists for the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Text Analytics & Semantic Technology and Best Metadata Management categories. Finalists represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services in the software, content and business technology.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 91 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. Cogito and Luxid Webstudio were honored as ones of 215 finalists across the 62 business technology categories.

"I am amazed by the level of innovation and creativity of the products that have been selected as this year's CODiE Award finalists. We are happy to recognize them for their great contributions and impact they are making on the software, content and business technology industries," said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA.

Cogito is a cognitive computing software platform that reads, comprehends and answers as humans would. Based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms, Cogito enriches data to empower more efficient search and discovery and informed-decision making at the speed of current technologies and at the scale of the user's data repository.

Luxid Webstudio is a collaborative web application that integrates the many workflows and resources required to create, manage, enrich and apply ontology to content for semantic enrichment. Accessible through a simple browser, its user-friendly interface ensures a seamless and efficient workflow. For distributed teams wishing to develop, maintain and deploy a shared ontology on their content assets, Luxid Webstudio is the ideal tool.

"We are extremely proud at being selected as CODiE finalist in these two categories," said Daniel Mayer, CEO of Expert System Enterprise. "Semantically enriching content metadata is a critical enabler to build more efficient publishing workflows and compelling information products. Helping end-users 'make sense' of information in context is now more important than ever. Expert System's market-leading natural language processing technology is a game changer when it comes to delivering them the strategic insights that will help them take better decisions."

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by software and business technology executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media, bloggers, bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. Winners will be announced during a virtual award ceremony on May 18.
Details about each finalist are listed at http://www.siia.net/codie/Finalists

About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology's finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence.  For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

About Expert System
Expert System is a leading provider of information access solutions based on the proprietary, patented, multilingual semantic technology of Cogito®. Using Expert System's products, enterprise companies and government agencies can go beyond traditional keyword approaches for the rapid sense-making of their structured and unstructured data. Expert System technology has been deployed to deliver solutions for a vast range of business requirements such as semantic searches, open source intelligence, multilingual and big text analytics, natural language processing and the development and management of taxonomies and ontologies. Expert System serves some of the world's largest industries including Banking and Insurance, Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas, Media and Publishing, and Government including companies such as Shell, Chevron, Eli Lilly, Wolters Kluwer, Networked Insights, Nalco Champion, US Department of Justice and the DTRA.

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