Basis Technology to Debut Asian Computational Linguistics Software At 15th International Unicode Conference.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1999-- --Company's powerful linguistic analysis tools enable full-text search A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. & retrieval in applications-- -- Basis Technology and Lycos to present on the internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation of the Lycos search engine-- Basis Technology, the leading provider of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation solutions to e-businesses and software companies, today announced the availability of a new suite 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. tools: the Japanese Morphological Analyzer, the Chinese Morphological Analyzer, and the Chinese Script Converter. These Unicode-compliant tools provide software and Internet applications with the means to segment Asian text and automate Chinese script conversion. The functions of the morphological analyzers are critical for full-text search and retrieval of Asian language text, or for any text processing operations. The Chinese Script Converter allows documents to be exchanged between readers and writers of the two Chinese scripts in use today: simplified Chinese (in the People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China and Singapore) and traditional Chinese (in Taiwan and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. ). Instead of reinventing the wheel Reinventing the wheel is a phrase that means a generally accepted technique or solution is ignored in favor of a locally invented solution. To "reinvent the wheel" is to duplicate a basic method that has long since been accepted and even taken for granted. , software developers can take advantage of these computational linguistics tools to quickly plug into English- or European-only applications, and empower businesses to take advantage of the market opportunities in Asia faster, more efficiently, and at lower costs than otherwise possible. "More than ever, dealing with the flow of information in business is sometimes like drinking from a fire hydrant. The ability to search documents and retrieve information is becoming a requirement of any application processing text, from word processors to search engines to document repositories. Basis Technology's Computational Linguistics tools address this growing need for software developers entering the highly lucrative Japanese and emerging Chinese software markets," says Carl Hoffman, president of Basis Technology. "By taking the mystery out of handling Japanese and Chinese, Basis Technology helps developers keep control of their code, get a product out fast and avoid relying on overseas partnerships and third-party vendors." Basis Technology will showcase these new tools in product demonstrations during the 15th International Unicode Conference (www.unicode.org), August 30 - September 2, 1999 in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Basis Technology is a sponsor of the conference, which addresses topics ranging from Unicode use in the World Wide Web, corporate intranets, and databases to the latest Unicode developments in Java. Presentation at 15th International Unicode Conference Tina Lieu, Project Manager at Basis Technology Corp., and Eric Gardner, Manager of Search Product Development at Lycos, Inc., will co-present "Destination Japan: Internationalization of the Lycos Search Engine" on September 1 at the 15th International Unicode Conference. Lieu and Gardner will present the development effort as a case study in the use of Unicode in a real production environment -- the Lycos Japanese search engine. About the Products The Japanese Morphological Analyzer is a portable, high-performance text analysis and word segmentation engine for Japanese. Combined with comprehensive Japanese dictionaries, this is a robust source code library that solves the problem of script analysis inherent in text that has no spaces between words. It does this by returning words that are logical for the sentence structure in which they reside. The Chinese Morphological Analyzer is a portable, high-performance text analysis and word segmentation engine for Chinese text. Proven 98.7 percent accurate when run over random web pages, the Chinese Morphological Analyzer accurately segments Chinese text into words based on an extensive dictionary containing over 350,000 words tagged with information about parts of speech and pinyin pronunciation. Standard Chinese Standard Chinese can refer to the following:
About Basis Technology Basis Technology is the leading provider of multilingual software and services to Internet and software companies seeking to reach international markets and capture the growing opportunities offered by the global Internet. Leveraging the specialized knowledge and technical depth of its staff of multilingual project managers, engineers, testers and translators, Basis Technology delivers proven solutions that reduce time-to-market and minimize the cost and risk of expanding into global markets. Basis Technology delivers these solutions with a combination of cross-platform Unicode products, a suite of linguistic tools for Asian text manipulation, and an array of services, including consulting for globalizing software applications, re-engineering code for Unicode compliance, multilingual software testing Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such , consulting on Asian business practices, and software localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. . Areas of expertise and experience include high volume Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , e-commerce applications, client-server systems, development tools, data management, and document management systems. Founded in 1994, Basis Technology is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . For more information, visit the company at www.basistech.com, or call 1-617-252-5636. |
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