German Security Company rola Integrates Language Weaver Translation Software into Its rsCASE Investigation System; Company Becomes Reseller of Language Weaver Technology.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Language Weaver Language Weaver is a Los Angeles, California based company that was founded by USC's Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, marketing a new software product that learns a language by itself by reading a lot of text (extracting probabilistic translation dictionaries, patterns, and rules), , a leading software company developing enterprise software for the automated translation of human languages, announced it has gained rola Security Solutions, a German security company, as an integrator and value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. for its automated translation system. rola is integrating Language Weaver translation technology into its investigative and security application, rsCASE(TM), to enable automated translation of foreign text in cross-border crime operations and as a defense measure against terrorist threats from abroad. rola has signed an agreement that allows them to use all existing Language Weaver translation modules and future ones as developed. This functionality will aid investigating officers to quickly translate foreign language material, from sources such as emails or telephone monitoring data, into English or German, assess its relevance, and then escalate es·ca·late v. es·ca·lat·ed, es·ca·lat·ing, es·ca·lates v.tr. To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf. v.intr. suspicious data to a translator analyst for further review. "While Language Weaver has had considerable experience supporting U.S. security and defense agencies, this is the first time we have worked with a German company in law enforcement," said Kirti Vashee, vice president of sales and marketing for Language Weaver. "We anticipate that this collaboration with rola and proof of our software's capabilities will expand our market reach in the German market and in Europe in general, when companies become aware of the time and money savings inherent in using our automated translation. It really enables them to use their own personnel resources for higher level activities." rola has been developing IT solutions for more than 20 years for security authorities including the police, security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the , border police, customs investigators and military organizations in Germany and the rest of Europe. The rsCASE software supports investigation and analysis in major cases of organized crime, white-collar crime white-collar crime, term coined by Edward Sutherland for nonviolent crimes committed by corporations or individuals such as office workers or sales personnel (see white-collar workers) in the course of their business activities. , and capital offenses in addition to terrorism investigations. In collaboration with rola, Language Weaver will showcase its software at the 8th Oberhausen Security Conference to be held on Sept. 27, 2006 at the Luise-Albertz Hall in Oberhausen, Germany; the conference is focused on cross-border case investigation. For more information, interested parties can contact Language Weaver at 310-437-7300. About Language Weaver, Inc. Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique approach to automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation algorithms that resulted from research and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its resulting product, statistical machine translation Statistical machine translation (SMT) is a machine translation paradigm where translations are generated on the basis of statistical models whose parameters are derived from the analysis of bilingual text corpora. software (SMTS SMTS Space and Missile Tracking System SMTS Senior Member of Technical Staff SMTS Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society (Canada) SMTS So Much to Say (Dave Matthews Band song) ), provides the highest quality output to date in automated translation. Language Weaver's translation systems produce fluent fluent /flu·ent/ (floo´int) flowing effortlessly; said of speech. , natural sounding translations and save customers money and time through automation of the translation process. The company has more than 50 patents pending on its SMTS technology worldwide. Language Weaver licenses a server version of its software, currently available for 27 language offerings. Website: www.languageweaver.com |
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