ABBYY USA Signs Agreement with Entopia; Information Discovery Innovator Uses ABBYY's Morphology Engine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 ABBYY USA, a recognized leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies, today announced the signing of a global agreement with Entopia, Inc.(TM), an innovator in solutions for information discovery. Under the agreement, Entopia will incorporate ABBYY's Morphology Engine technology, which is composed of advanced linguistic capabilities, into its K-Bus infrastructure. Entopia will use the morphological engine to stem search terms to their root for use by Entopia's information discovery infrastructure. The root terms are used by the Entopia K-Bus search and retrieval algorithms to enable multi-lingual support. ABBYY's Morphology Engine is part of ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology Engine, a software development kit for integrating advanced ABBYY technologies into desktop or client-server applications via COM-style API. The Engine supports 34 natural languages. The Morphology API of ABBYY Retrieval and Morphology Engine allows developers to integrate functions of morphology analysis (spell checking, lemmatization lem`ma`tiz`a´tion v. t. 1. The act or process of lemmatizing; conversion into a lemma . , and paradigm generation) into various systems that process electronic text information. "We are pleased to partner with and provide our morphology technology to one of the industry's most renowned information discovery companies," said Joe Budelli, Vice President of Business Development for ABBYY USA. "As a long-standing leader in recognition technology, ABBYY is confident that we will provide Entopia with proven technology that will be an asset to their solutions." "We are delighted to use ABBYY's morphological engine to help enable multi-lingual retrieval to our customers though our K-Bus information discovery infrastructure," said Peter Katz, Executive Vice President of Sales and Services for Entopia. Entopia delivers comprehensive solutions for several enterprise business knowledge applications including enterprise search, research, portals and intranets, customer support and sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. optimization. Entopia K-Bus leverages the business context, concepts and social activity surrounding enterprise wide content to automatically and dynamically discover and deliver truly-relevant content and experts into the day-to-day business process. About ABBYY USA ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Software House Group, a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. ), intelligent character recognition In computer science, intelligent character recognition (ICR) is an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) system that allows fonts and different styles of hand writing to be learned by a computer during processing to improve accuracy and recognition levels. (ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography lexicography, the applied study of the meaning, evolution, and function of the vocabulary units of a language for the purpose of compilation in book form—in short, the process of dictionary making. Early lexicography, practiced from the 7th cent. B.C. . Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and barcode software, and FineReader development tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include BenQ, C-Technologies, EPSON EPSON Son of Electronic Printer , Freedom Scientific, Kurzweil, Kofax Image Products, Legato Systems, Lexmark, Microtek, Mustek, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Optika, Panasonic, ReadSoft, SER Ser serine. Ser abbr. serine SER smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Ser serine. Solutions, Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. , Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Umax. For more information about ABBYY, visit www.abbyyusa.com or contact ABBYY USA, 47221 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-226-6717. Fax: 510-226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com. About Entopia Entopia is an innovator in solutions for information discovery that leverage business context, concepts and social activity to automatically and dynamically discover and deliver truly-relevant content and experts into the business process. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., Entopia has received extensive industry recognition including eWeek's Excellence Awards, "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld Magazine and Software and Information Industry Association's Codie Award for "Best Search Engine." For more information, visit http://www.entopia.com/. |
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