Mondeca to Present Legal Information Management Success at Semantic Technology Conference

Paper to Highlight Improvements in LexisNexis SA Legal Publishing Processes following Adoption of Ontology Based Approach

14 May 2007 - Mondeca S.A., a leader in applying semantic technology to help organizations obtain maximum return from their knowledge and content, today announced that it is presenting a joint session with its customer LexisNexis SA at the Semantic Technology Conference, taking place from May 20 to 24 in San Jose, California. The session will describe LexisNexis SA's knowledge-centric editorial system, which leverages Mondeca’s Intelligent Topic Manager semantic software platform.

The market for semantic software technologies and applications is expected to grow to US$50 billion by 2010. The Semantic Technology Conference brings together leading practitioners and users of semantic technology to highlight business and technical developments in this market.

“We are delighted to present this joint paper with one of our visionary customers”, said Jean Delahousse, CEO of Mondeca. “LexisNexis SA's application of semantic web technology to legal information management dramatically improves the acquisition, enhancement, distribution and navigation of legal knowledge”.

About Mondeca

Mondeca specializes in helping organizations obtain maximum return from their accumulated knowledge and content. Its solutions are used by industry, media, publishing and government customers worldwide. Mondeca is a privately owned venture funded company. Venture partners are Trinova and Natexis Private Equity

Mondeca’s flagship Intelligent Topic Manager™ product manages reference taxonomies and ontologies, performs classification of structured and unstructured text and multi-media source data, and organizes information and knowledge for more effective navigation and search over a variety of output channels. For more information see http://www.mondeca.com.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading provider of information and services solutions, including its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services, to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.