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Hence, Frédérik Bilhaut and Antoine Widlöcher3, both specialists in linguistic computing and co-creators of Noopsis, have received financial support from Oséo Basse-Normandie equivalent to their personal investment. “We provided funding in partnership with the Regional Council.” The latter provided 20 to 25% of the awarded sum, in the form of a grant, Oséo providing the remaining sum in the form of a loan, in order to help this young business devote more time to R&D. They develop specific solutions for the semantic analysis of digital documents. Their freshly created business has already succeeded in selling a few applications. “We are currently developing specific solutions for clients who are interested in the technology we’ve developed. We will then see which of them can be transformed into genuine products.”
Eric Pichon, Manager of Xelasys, has been granted similar support, which should also help him to develop his R&D activities for his translation dictionary capable of understanding 22 languages and of zithromax generic defining some 600,000 words in each language. zithromax generic “I’d like to recruit a computer scientist to continue to develop this product.”
But Oséo also helps businesses which are not selected by the regional jury. It was the case, this year, for three or four projects in the En Emergence category. “If, after careful examination of the project, we believe there’s technical potential, we don’t hesitate to back the initiative.”
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