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Basis Technology Supports Lucene Search Engine.


Advanced Linguistics Integrate with Popular Open Source Search Engine

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Basis Technology Corp. (www.basistech.com) announced today that it is delivering advanced linguistics modules integrated with the Lucene open source search engine.

Basis Technology's Rosette[R] Linguistics Platform allows Lucene-based applications to index and search text in multiple languages concurrently, including complex script languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Japanese and Korean.

Lucene has been widely adopted by both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  software vendors and enterprise IT departments as the new standard for embedded and customizable search. The combination of Lucene and Rosette provides a powerful environment for building multilingual applications in such areas as CRM, enterprise information retrieval, e-Discovery, and digital forensics.

Rosette is the world's most widely-used family of commercial software products for foreign language processing. It delivers a broad range of analytic capabilities including language identification, segmentation, lemmatization lem`ma`tiz`a´tion   

v. t. 1. The act or process of lemmatizing; conversion into a lemma .
, noun decompounding, part-of-speech tagging, sentence boundary detection, noun phrase analysis, and entity extraction.

"Lucene is now recognized as the open source standard for building large-scale search applications," said Steven Cohen cohen
 or kohen

(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male.
, Executive Vice President at Basis Technology. "With this new release of Rosette, applications based on Lucene and Solr can benefit from the same advanced linguistic processing used by major web and enterprise search engines."

For more information on the Rosette Linguistics Platform and Lucene visit www.basistech.com/lucene.

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications Areas where information retrieval techniques are employed include (the entries are in alphabetical order within each category): General applications of information retrieval
  • Digital libraries
  • Information filtering
. The company's Rosette[R] Linguistics Platform is a suite of high-performance, robust, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world's languages.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology's solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Customers include industry leaders Autonomy, Convera, Endeca, FAST, Google, Hewlett-Packard, LL Bean, Microsoft, Oracle, 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. , Symantec, and Yahoo! Government contractors include BBN Technologies, CACI CACI - A company developing and marketing SIMSCRIPT, MODSIM and other simulation software products.

Telephone: +1 (619) 457-9681.
, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman, and SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. .

Company headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation).

The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] 
; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.
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