Teragram to Power Better Access to Environmental Issues and News for Journalists and Researchers

National Foundation Chooses Powerful Categorization and Entities Extraction Technology for EnvironmentalHealthNews.org Site Redesign

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - July 12, 2005 -Teragram, the leading provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, today announced that the Edgerton Foundation has chosen Teragram's categorization and entities extraction technology to power its largest project, EnvironmentalHealthNews.org. When the prominent news site re-launches this summer, Teragram's technology will enable journalists, environmental groups, researchers and other users to have instant access to critical environmental news retrieved from thousands of sources around the world.

Currently, the site's content is manually updated by a team of specialists who find, read, categorize and post hundreds of news stories each day from various news sources. This burdensome task not only requires a significant amount of effort each day, but relies on human eyes to find and categorize all relevant content, hindering the volume, speed and accuracy with which new information can be posted.

"Today's users of EnvironmentalHealthNews.org are demanding greater access to environmental information that is not only reliable and accurate, but also timely and newsworthy," says Todd Koym, program officer for the Edgerton Foundation. "We chose Teragram to help us meet these demands because it met our needs for speed, volume, accuracy and flexibility. Teragram's categorization and extraction technologies allow us to present our content in ways that are not possible under our current system of manual categorization."

The Edgerton Foundation manages the development of the massive news site with Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. The site's content is viewed by more than a half million people each month, including journalists, environmental activism groups and researchers, to gather background information on current issues. EnvironmentalHealthNews.org is able to reach a broad audience by digitally syndicating its content to other environmentally-oriented portals, such as the United Nations' OurPlanet.com.

"Our goal is eliminate barriers that make it difficult for people to track information about how the environment affects human health," says John Peterson Myers, CEO of Environmental Health Sciences. "In re-launching EnvironmentalHealthNews.org, we are looking forward to working with Teragram to reach this goal more effectively and better serve the needs of the environmental health community."

About The Edgerton Foundation
The Edgerton Foundation is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation founded in 2001 to promote the well-being and general good of mankind throughout the world. The foundation supports public charities in the following endeavors: preservation of the planet's biodiversity; protection of human health and the global climate through wise energy policy; prevention of the spread and use of weapons of mass destruction; resolution of differences between nations that may lead to nuclear war; support of theater, dance, and music in Southern California; improvement of science, math, and environmental education in select schools; and technology innovation supporting enlightened public policy development in environmental and security policy by non-profit organizations.

About Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental Health Sciences is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. EHS publishes three web sites: EnvironmentalHealthNews.org, OurStolenFuture.org, and ProtectingOurHealth.org.

About Teragram
Teragram Corporation is the market leader in multilingual natural language processing technologies that use the meaning of text to distill relevant information from vast amounts of data. Founded in 1997 by innovators in the field of computational linguistics, Teragram alone offers the speed, accuracy and global language support that customers and partners demand to retrieve and organize growing volumes of digital information. Teragram helps customers perform more efficient searches and better organize information in more than 30 languages, enabling them to reach new markets and make better decisions. Teragram serves customers across the publishing, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and financial industries, including Ariba, Ask Jeeves, CNN, Factiva, FAST Search & Transfer, Forbes.com, InfoSpace, Kofax, NYTimes Digital, OneSource, Ricoh, Sony, Verity, WashingtonPost.com, the World Bank, and Yahoo. For more information please contact 1-617-576-6800 or visit http://www.teragram.com/info