Today we are competing in the Dutch rounds for 'Get in the Ring', a competition where startups are pitching for a panel of investors and venture capital firms. The event is held in Rotterdam at the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship.

The Xerox reference tagger has been the benchmark for Part-of-Speech tagging for quite a while now. Today we are proud to announce that our POS-tagger has surpassed this benchmark. The most important fact however is not specifically surpassing the reference benchmark, but the incredible big difference in the amounts of data used by Xerox and by us.

Last week we've launched a (small) crowdfunding round in The Netherlands. We are selling certificates that are handled the same way as stock (as allowed under Dutch law). The crowdfunding will run for two months and will close on september 1st, 2015.

Lately there's an abundance of media exposure covering the upcoming demise of the human race, brought to us by the impeding doom of Artificial Super Intelligence. The choir is being led by some pretty famous (and obviously intelligent) people like Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, just to name a few. However, there is an abundance of problems with both the presented viewpoints of afore mentioned ambassadors of AI-doom and equally the way that the press seems to pick up on those things and hype stuff they basically don't understand in the first place. Here's why...