The technology serves as a bridge between Natural Language and Formal Language, enabling machines to understand and act upon normative human language. This marks the first time that computer understanding has successfully moved beyond text towards true understanding of human language, according to Linguistic Agents founder and CEO Sasson Margaliot.

"Previous attempts at enabling computers to understand the nuances of human language have come from a computer science perspective," he says. "We have succeeded by combining the latest linguistic theory – NanoSyntax – with strong computer science knowledge. The result is a giant leap forward in how well machines can understand and act upon normative human language."
 
NanoSyntax goes beyond translating the meaning of words and provides the computer with true internal linguistic capacity, Margaliot says. He says that the universe of applications for this technology -- and therefore the market -- is virtually limitless. However, based on initial market feedback, following are areas that can be impacted significantly in the short term:
 
° Improvement of search engine results by relating to the ideas behind keywords;

° Simplifying interfaces of content-rich websites by enabling users to input queries in "real" human language;

° Enabling automated information services to ‘understand’ and more accurately respond to SMS queries

° Enabling callers to more effectively interact with automated customer service attendants;

°  Providing applications developers with a new layer of computer ‘understanding’ of language, thereby increasing the possibilities in gaming, online environments, educational software, etc.

"Since the advent of the computer people have struggled to communicate more efficiently with it," says Margaliot. "With Linguistic Agents’ technology, we have opened a new and more efficient line of communications allowing computers to better understand humans."