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From: pollarda@Hawaii.Edu (Art Pollard)
Subject: Re: intelligent retrieval and text processing - position available
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In article <4h2ggf$d05@la1.digilink.net>,
Intelligent Text Processing <reynolds@itpinc.com> wrote:
>arkady@professor.verity.com (Arkady Borkovsky) wrote:
>
>>Objective:
>>  develop and implement intelligent retrieval and text processing
>>  technologies as part of the best and most intelligent text
>>  retrieval system
>
>>At Verity, we are looking for people to work on
>>"intelligent text processing" or
>>"advanced information retrieval" technologies.
>
>Looks like our web site might be a little more impressive than some of
>the postings may have indicated.
>
>Instead of "Giving natural language a bad name," we are demonstrating
>cool technology, generating commercial demand, and creating jobs.
>
>jack
>
>http://www.itpinc.com
>

Um, excuse me, I fail to see how a job announcement by Verity has 
anything to do with your web site. Furthermore, I suspect that 
Intelligent Text Processing is giving natural language a much worse name 
than you imply Verity is.  From what I have seen, your company provides 
technology which is far inferior to 40 year old boolean systems.  

From your previous postings, you  have:

1) Avoided people's questions.
2) Refused to demonstrate your technology in any sort of standardized 
   test.  Because you were "too busy." 
3) Provided a test which has failed beyond people's wildest expectations.
4) Made excessive claims for your technology which people can't get your
   demo (available on your web site) to duplicate.  When people say they 
   can't duplicate your results, you call them a "liar".

While you may be generating demand, as far as I have been able to gather 
it is only because of media "hype" rather than superior product 
performance. You say that you are demonstrating "cool technology", all I 
can say is that it isn't on your site if it is true.  And as for 
generating jobs, it looks like your company is much heavier on the sales 
side than on the technology side.

I'm sure the Verity guy is not appreciative of your using his post as a 
platform for you to plug technology which the folks on comp.ai.nat-lang 
has determined to the best of their ability does not exist.

-Art



