Arria, a recently AIM-listed company that develops natural language generation (NLG) technology, declined after it full-year losses doubled as a result of heavy investment. For the 12 months ended September 30th, losses totalled £13m on revenue of £0.82m, up from £0.06m a year earlier, which was driven higher by its contract with an oil and gas client. Cash at the year-end was £3.9m, down from £8.7m at the 2012 year-end. Chief Executive Officer Stuart Rogers said: "The directors believe that the prospects for the group are very bright. Negotiations continue with existing clients to expand the scope of our relationships which the directors expect to result in deeper and longer engagements. "Simultaneously, the director's believe that the platform offered by the company's shares being admitted to trading on AIM, and the debut of NLG as a key note concept at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Intelligent Energy conference [...] positions the group to succeed in the coming months and years in delivering its vision to be the global leader in the development and deployment of mission critical, core industrial enterprise level NLG software technologies." NR