The Mole Media Article - Distribution deal opens door to 8,000 US lawyers


Distribution deal opens door to 8,000 US lawyers RICHARD PAMATATAU 25 May 2004
Wellington's Hyperbolex has signed a distribution deal for its analysis software with American legal site trialsmith.com, giving it access to around 8,000 lawyers. Hyperbolex makes a text and data analysis tool called The Mole which examines documents to find strands of relevant information around any subject chosen by the user. Trialsmith offers contingency fee lawyers America's largest on-line depositions bank, with more than 147,000 depositions. Plaintiff lawyers can perform a single search and access all private databases and litigation documents from its partners. Trialsmith said its document database and litigation tools were jointly sponsored by more than 52 trial lawyer associations and litigation groups. It also holds all the depositions for major American litigation bodies, including Birth Trauma Litigation Group, the Medical Negligence Information Exchange Group and Attorneys Information Exchange Group. Hyperbolex director Ted Thomas said the front-page endorsement from Trialsmith was fantastic. The company's software is based on research by Otago University's Roy Anderson, who explored linguistics and information science. Basically, said Thomas, the software extracted meanings and connections from words and sentences and could dig through large amounts of unstructured text to extract meaning. The firm already has several New Zealand organisations on its books, including the State Services Commission, law firm Rainey Collins and Airways Corporation. About Hyperbolex Hyperbolex develops and licenses content intelligence technologies The Mole used in the discovery of information from unstructured data sources. The Mole uses a powerful (international patent pending) content analysis technology to provide abstracts of information based on a user's area of interest. The Mole's unique ability to unlock the value within unstructured data and automate processes around this information differentiates it from its competitors. You can find out more information about Hyperbolex and The Mole by contacting us at www.themolesite.com or email .