Arria NLG lauches A-Lite private beta

Artificial intelligence and natural language generation development company Arria NLG announced the private beta launch of Articulator Lite, a cloud-based toolkit that allows users to build their own applications that create content from data, on Wednesday.

The AIM-traded firm said it recognised demand from users to be able to build their own NLG applications with the option of hosting on-premises or delivery via cloud Application Programming Interfaces.

Articulator Lite - or A-Lite - reportedly makes simple NLG solutions available to customers, allowing users who might not be specialist developers to build their own NLG applications using many of the key functionalities of Arria's patented technology suite.

Currently in private beta, Arria is working with users to tailor the A-Lite toolkit based on their feedback before opening the public beta later this year.

During the beta, A-Lite will be free to users, and it is expected to be fully released to the market in 2017 as a software-as-a-service product, when a tiered pricing structure will be introduced.

The board said A-Lite is the first of two self-service software development toolkits that make up Arria's NLG Cloud, with the second - a tool for professional software developers called Articulator “Up until now, real natural language generation has been available only to enterprises who purchase large and expensive applications,” said Arria chief technology officer Dr Robert Dale.

“Arria's self-service NLG tools change all that, going beyond the simpler approaches of our competitors to bring real NLG capabilities to anyone who wants to automate content creation from data.”