Basis Technology to Provide Software for Chinese and Japanese Versions of MSN Search; Rosette(R) Language Analyzers to Support the Expansion of MSN Search into Asian Markets.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Basis Technology announced today that Microsoft has licensed its Rosette Rosette D’Albert’s pliable, versatile, talented, acknowledged bedmate. [Fr. Lit.: Mademoiselle de Maupin. Magill I, 542–543] See : Courtesanship (language) Rosette - A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. (R) language analyzers for Chinese and Japanese to support the expansion of MSN Search MSN Search was a search engine by Microsoft that comprised a search engine, index, and web crawler. As of September 12, 2006, MSN Search is now Live Search. This offers users the ability to search for specific types of information using search tabs that include Web, news, images, into Asian markets. The Rosette(R) analyzers are software components that enable 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
This agreement extends the existing relationship between the two companies. Microsoft has been using Basis Technology's Rosette Linguistic Platform since the launch of the MSN Search beta in late 2004. "Multilingual search continues to be a top priority for MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , and our prior success with Basis Technology's software made Rosette the natural choice for our Chinese and Japanese search systems", said Justin Osmer, Product Manager at MSN. "Asia is the fastest-growing online market in the world. It's shaping up as the most important new battleground among the top search engines," said Carl Hoffman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Basis Technology. "Boosting multilingual search capabilities is a top priority for global players. We've built our reputation on helping American companies succeed in overseas markets, and we're pleased that our relationship with Microsoft continues to deepen." The Rosette Linguistics Platform uses advanced 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 techniques to enable applications such as unstructured data management, document exploitation, business intelligence and text mining for global markets. Rosette's capabilities include automatic language identification; conversion of documents into Unicode(TM); and identification of names, places, and other key concepts. About Basis Technology Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications. 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 In relational database management, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing. There are six stages. By the third stage (third normal form), data are identified only by the key field in their record. , transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include industry leaders Amazon.com, America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity, and Yahoo!. Company headquarters are located 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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