Language Computer Corporation

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]

Language Computer Corporation

Company type	Private
Industry	Software, Research and development, Natural Language Processing
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Richardson, Texas
Products	Question Answering and Information Extraction products
Number of employees	12 (2010)
Website	LanguageComputer.com

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]