About Me
My official bio:
ANDY HICKL is CEO of Language Computer Corporation (LCC), a Dallas-based natural language processing company. A computational linguist by training, Hickl offers a deep understanding of how semantic technologies can be used to unlock meaning from raw text. Prior to becoming CEO, he led R&D in semantic search and text understanding at LCC. During this time, he was responsible for the creation and deployment of a number of semantic applications, including state-of-the-art software systems for question answering, information extraction, semantic inference, and document summarization. Hickl is also co-founder and chief technical advisor for two Texas-based semantic technology start-ups: Swingly, a question-answering company capable of finding answers in the Web of unstructured text, and Extractiv, a new joint venture with 80Legs.
Want to get in touch with me? You can email me at andy@languagecomputer.com or andy@swingly.com You can also follow me on Twitter.
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Me getting my shoes shined, circa 2005…