[April 19, 2005]

Language Weaver Expands Scientific Base, Hires More Research and Engineering Staff to Support Growth; Dr. Amir Izadpanah to Lead Engineering Operation

LOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)-- April 19, 2005 -- Language Weaver, Inc., a leading developer of statistical machine translation software (SMTS) for the automation of human language translation, today announced it has retained Dr. Amir Izadpanah to lead engineering operations for the rapidly expanding company. Language Weaver recently added six additional science and engineering employees to its team, including four Ph.D. research scientists, to support its new product development demands for government and private enterprise customers.

Amir Izadpanah, Ph.D., has been hired as the company's senior director of engineering. Izadpanah brings with him more than 16 years experience in software development and deployment, including more than five years as group manager at Oracle, working on large-scale software development, and eight as a research scientist at Macneal-Schwendler corporation and NASA Langley Research Center where he developed computer simulation programs. He served eight years as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a program coordinator with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Izadpanah received his doctorate in computational mechanics and aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his master's and bachelor's degrees in engineering from Washington University, St. Louis.

Izadpanah will oversee all engineering operations, reporting directly to the chief operating and technical officer, Dr. Daniel Marcu. Additionally, Izadpanah is charged with implementing a product life cycle across the organization and building an integrated global team of software developers, linguists, and quality assurance technicians to develop and refine Language Weaver's leading translation products. The company's additional new science and engineering staff have strong backgrounds in syntax-based statistical translation, machine learning, mathematics, pattern recognition and cryptology.

Language Weaver recently doubled its headquarters space in Marina del Rey, Calif., to accommodate the new hires. According to Bryce Benjamin, CEO of Language Weaver, the expanded headquarters and rapidly growing staff of engineers, scientists, and support staff, expected to double in 2005, were made possible due to the company's closure of its Series B funding round and grant of $2 million from the Department of Commerce NIST Advanced Technology Program award in September.

"In 2004 we proved the viability and superiority of our technology with customers and by winning awards for innovation from Red Herring, Larta Institute and the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST Advanced Technology Program," Benjamin said. "2005 is the year of growth in sales and capability. We are ramping up to accommodate the demand in our pipeline, and especially expanding our brain trust in statistical methodology for automated translation and related activities. With the addition of Amir and the other talented scientists to our team, Language Weaver's intellectual base has grown dramatically, helping to further advance our technology."

About Language Weaver

Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique approach to automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation algorithms that resulted from ground-breaking invention and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its resulting product, statistical machine translation software, provides the highest quality output to date from machine translation, saving customers money and time in translation. The company has more than 50 patents pending worldwide on its SMTS technology. Bidirectional language pairs available include: Arabic/English, Chinese/English, French/English, and Spanish/English; unidirectional languages include Somali and Hindi to English, with others coming soon. Language Weaver's software is available as licensed software in client server and stand-alone versions. Its customers include both government and commercial enterprises. Website: www.languageweaver.com.

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