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I don't judge your technology based on your marketing; as I mentioned, I looked for specific information about your technology but was not able to find any. The

by gavinh 13y ago

I don't judge your technology based on your marketing; as I mentioned, I looked for specific information about your technology but was not able to find any. The .pdf you linked is what I quoted above; I'm interested more in your papers or patents. SRI is a respected brand with a great reputation and history. I wouldn't be so dismissive of marketing since, as you mention, you have recently exited stealth mode.

drakaal 13y ago
We started 14 months ago. Papers and Patents take a bit longer than that to get through. We have two pending patents. Much of the "magic" is trade secret rather than patent because the changes in patent law are now requiring enough information for you to build the tech. We don't have the money for enforcement, so making that much IP public scares us, especially if someone like Google decided that the patent was "obvious". So we are balancing our portfolio of IP. Enough to be worth acquiring, not so much that you could dupe the work with the part that are in the public record.
- gavinh 13y ago
  I didn't realize that you had started so recently. I appreciate that patents and papers take time to produce. I am trying to be helpful when I say that for a company that produces language processing technology, your customer-facing content shows a strange disregard for language. If your writing does not demonstrate that you have mastered English grammar, why should I believe that your software has?
  - drakaal 13y ago
    The challenge with the website is saying things in such a way that we don't scare off the non-technical, and still appeal to the technical. All cards on the table, there is a lot of discussion internally about who we are writing for. The result is we get a mish-mash of copy from Engineering and Marketing. The PDF I linked to is much better because those were targeted to Engineering managers. The website still doesn't know who it is targeting. http://www.tldrstuff.com http://www.tldrstuff.com knows its audience it sucks much less.
    - jorah 13y ago
      Simple, clear, and grammatically-correct writing will not intimidate non-technical users.

by gavinh 13y ago

drakaal 13y ago

We started 14 months ago. Papers and Patents take a bit longer than that to get through. We have two pending patents. Much of the "magic" is trade secret rather than patent because the changes in patent law are now requiring enough information for you to build the tech. We don't have the money for enforcement, so making that much IP public scares us, especially if someone like Google decided that the patent was "obvious". So we are balancing our portfolio of IP. Enough to be worth acquiring, not so much that you could dupe the work with the part that are in the public record.

gavinh 13y ago
I didn't realize that you had started so recently. I appreciate that patents and papers take time to produce. I am trying to be helpful when I say that for a company that produces language processing technology, your customer-facing content shows a strange disregard for language. If your writing does not demonstrate that you have mastered English grammar, why should I believe that your software has?
- drakaal 13y ago
  The challenge with the website is saying things in such a way that we don't scare off the non-technical, and still appeal to the technical. All cards on the table, there is a lot of discussion internally about who we are writing for. The result is we get a mish-mash of copy from Engineering and Marketing. The PDF I linked to is much better because those were targeted to Engineering managers. The website still doesn't know who it is targeting. http://www.tldrstuff.com http://www.tldrstuff.com knows its audience it sucks much less.
  - jorah 13y ago
    Simple, clear, and grammatically-correct writing will not intimidate non-technical users.