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* '''Intellect''' from [[Trinzic]] (formed by the merger of AICorp and Aion).
* Bbn’s '''Parlance''' built on experience from the development of the '''Rus''' and '''Irus''' systems.
* [[Ibm]]’s '''Languageaccess'''
* '''Q&A''' from [[Symantec]].
* '''Datatalker''' from Natural Language Inc.
* '''Loqui''' from [[Bim]].
* '''English Wizard''' from [[Linguistic Technology Corporation]].
==Applications==
===Ubiquity===
{{main|Ubiquity (Firefox)}}
'''Ubiquity''', an [[add-on (Mozilla)|add-on]] for [[Mozilla Firefox]], is a collection of quick and easy [[Natural language user interface|natural-language-derived commands]] that act as [[mashup (web application hybrid)|mashups]] of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate it to current and other webpages.
 
===Wolfram Alpha===
{{main|Wolfram Alpha}}
'''Wolfram Alpha''' is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a [[search engine]] would.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google |title=British search engine 'could rival Google' |last=Johnson |first=Bobbie |date=2009-03-09 |work=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=2009-03-09}}</ref> It was announced in March 2009 by [[Stephen Wolfram]], and was released to the public on May 15, 2009.<ref name="launch date">{{cite web|url=http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/08/so-much-for-a-quiet-launch/ |title=So Much for A Quiet Launch |publisher=Wolfram Alpha Blog |date=2009-05-08 |accessdate=2009-10-20}}</ref>
===Siri===
{{main|Siri Personal Assistant}}
Siri is a [[personal assistant]] application for the [[iPhone OS]]. The application uses [[natural language processing]] to answer questions and make recommendations. The iPhone app is the first public product by its makers, who are focused on [[artificial intelligence]] applications.