Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is organized around the development - and commercialization - of next-generation natural language processing technologies. Working in the natural language processing, LCC personnel havie created state-of-the-art systems for named entity recognition, customizable information extraction, temporal and spatial normalization, textual inference, automatic question-answering, and multi-document summarization. LCC's primary mission is to develop, market, and support the types of innovative software solutions users need to unlock value from unstructured texts in any language. Language Computer's products are supported by four different research and development teams: a text processing group which focuses on the annotation of English and foreign-language texts, an information extraction group devoted to the extraction of entities, attributes, relationships, and events mentioned in texts, a content personalization group which develops the core customization engines used in a number of LCC's products, and finally, a question answering group dedicated to creating a robust semantic search capability.