CeBIT 2004: Duden Presents Software Components for Content Management Systems; Intelligent Spelling Checker Offered as Web Service by Duden.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CeBIT 2004 MANNHEIM, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004 Duden, the leading publisher of German language dictionaries, announced today the launch of its intelligent spelling and grammar checker Software that analyzes the grammar of a sentence. It can check for and highlight incomplete sentences, awkward phrases, wordiness and poor grammar. "Duden Linguistic Engine" as a web service for software integration. The solution enables software manufacturers, for example of content management or editing systems, to easily integrate a sophisticated German language spellchecker into their applications and to support customers in assuring the quality of texts. Duden will present its web service at CeBIT 2004 in Hanover, Germany, from March 18 to 24 (Hall 6, World of Solutions, A 20, stand 103). The spell checker A separate program or word processing function that tests for correctly spelled words. It can test the spelling of a marked block, an entire document or group of documents. Advanced systems check for spelling as the user types and can correct common typos and misspellings on the fly. offers far more than usual spellcheckers: Its syntax analysis enables the software to detect grammar mistakes as in "Sie lernte ihn beim tanzen kennen" (instead of "Sie lernte ihn beim Tanzen kennen") or mistakes as in "Er will sie kennenlernen" instead of the correct "Er will sie kennen lernen". The web service increases the efficiency of editing and content management systems and transfers the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. load from clients using these applications to a server. The web service is offered with two licensing models on customers' servers or hosted by Duden. Detailed information on the "Duden Linguistic Engine" is available on request from rita.galli@bifab.de. At CeBIT, Duden will also be showing other software components for content, document and knowledge management, integrations of Duden dictionaries in electronic dictionaries Noun 1. electronic dictionary - a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically machine readable dictionary, MRD lexical database - a database of information about words made by Sharp and Casio as well as into the new German Wizcom Reading Pen and finally the new PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). version of the Duden thesaurus and of the dictionary on foreign words. About Duden: Duden is the leading German brand of monolingual mon·o·lin·gual adj. Using or knowing only one language. mon  o·lin dictionaries on German language produced by the publishing house Bibliographisches Institut The German publishing company "Bibliographisches Institut" was founded 1826 in Gotha by Joseph Meyer, moved 1828 to Hildburghausen and 1874 to Leipzig. Its production over the years includes such well-known titles as "Meyers Lexikon" & F. A. Brockhaus AG. All language technology software and e-content for offline/online publishing are produced and marketed by the subsidiary company Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH. With partners, the company is engaged in research and development projects in knowledge management and 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. . Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG is the leading German publisher of encyclopedias and monolingual dictionaries with nearly 200 years of tradition in this field. Further information: www.duden.de. More press releases in German: http://www.duden.de/presse/neu. |
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