Defense Supply Service-Washington, 5200 Army Pentagon, Rm. 1D245, Washington, DC 20310-5200

R -- NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING PROCESSING (PROTOTYPE POLICY PROJECT) SOL W81TYT-8329-N001 POC Alyssa Murray, telephone 703/695-6617; fax: 703/695-9746 WEB: Defense Supply Service-Washington, http://www.hqda.army.mil/dsswweb. E-MAIL: Defense Supply Service-Washington, MurraAA@hqda.army.mil. The Defense Supply Service-Washington intends to negotiate a sole source purchase order with InQuizit Technologies, a small woman-owned business located in Santa Monica, California. Capability Statements, including key personnel resumes, and organizational capabilities, qualifications and experience, will be accepted, by email or fax, up until 27 January 1999. InQuizit is a natural language language understanding (NLU) system developed by Intelligent Text Processing (ITP) for highly precise searches of text data. InQuizit is proprietary software of ITP that offers a full natural language understanding capability. The data to be searched will be largely text with an assortment of tables and appendices containing formulas, etc. In order for InQuizit to find relevant sections of the text, a library (lexicon) containing specialized vocabulary specific to Army regulatory subject matter must be developed. Under this purchase order, a prototype natural language understanding (NLU) application will be built asa conceptual search engine for the regulatory material. Posted 01/12/99 (W-SN287171). (0012)

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