Automotive.com Selects Teragram to Provide Internal Content Management and Improved Consumer Search Technologies.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Teragram, a division of SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. and the leading provider of multilingual natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as technologies, today announced that it has been selected by Automotive.com to provide automatic tagging and related search query solutions. Automotive.com is a portal that connects online car buyers with consumer information detailing the pricing, financing, and insurance options for new and used cars, and links these potential customers with local car dealers, large dealer groups, or directly with car manufacturers. Teragram's linguistic tools will be used to automatically tag information from multiple data sources to ensure accurate indexing among the almost 100,000 makes, models and years on Automotive.com. This will, in turn, increase data relevance and search accuracy by putting metadata across Automotive.com's entire online platform, including articles, blogs, forums, videos and photos. Having the information tagged correctly not only helps Automotive.com's internal search engine properly index vast amounts of data, but also saves IT workers from the time-consuming process of manually tagging this information. Automotive.com is also using Teragram's technology to provide the site's users with related queries as they search for automobiles online. When a user searches for a general term such as a "Honda," a box will appear and suggest relevant search topics such as "Honda Accord The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. " and "Honda Civic The Honda Civic is a compact car manufactured by Honda. It was introduced in July 1972 as a two-door coupe, followed by a three-door hatchback version that September. With the transverse engine placement of its 1169 cc engine and front-wheel drive, like the British Mini, the ." This facilitates the search process, sharpens the search and helps the user hone in on the specific automobile that they are searching for online. "Teragram helps Automotive.com decrease the possibility of error as we pull information from disparate sources and helps our customers better navigate through our vast online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. to find the exact make, model and year of the automobile that they desire," said Raghu Bala, chief technology officer, Automotive.com. "Teragram's technologies also save my team the time consuming, error-prone effort of manually tagging this data, which is extremely important in today's ultra competitive and challenging business environment." "Teragram's core mission is to provide technologies that help organizations better categorize their enormous amounts of data," said Dr. Yves Schabes, president and co-founder of Teragram. "We are excited to provide search and indexing technology to Automotive.com and look forward to helping their IT workers better organize information to best match customers to an appropriate vehicle." About Teragram Teragram, a division of SAS, is the market leader in multilingual natural language processing technologies that use the meaning of text to distill dis·till v. 1. To subject a substance to distillation. 2. To separate a distillate by distillation. 3. To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify a substance by distillation. relevant information from vast amounts of data. Founded in 1997 by innovators in the field of computational linguistics computational linguistics (CL) Use of digital computers in linguistics research. The simplest examples are the use of computers to scan text and produce such aids as word lists, frequency counts, and concordances. , Teragram alone offers the speed, accuracy and global language support that customers and partners demand to retrieve and organize growing volumes of digital information. Teragram helps customers perform more efficient searches and better organize information in more than 30 languages, enabling them to reach new markets and make better decisions. Teragram serves customers across the publishing, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and financial industries, including Ariba, Ask.com, Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , Factiva, EBSCO Publishing, eBay, FAST Search & Transfer, Forbes.com, InfoSpace, NYTimes Digital, OneSource, Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. , Sony, WashingtonPost.com, Wolters Kluwer, the World Bank and Yahoo!. For more information, please contact 1-617-576-6800 or visit http://www.teragram.com/info. |
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