Language Weaver Sets First Quarter 2007 Dates for Customizer Training.

Training Sessions Cover Both Assimilation and Dissemination Applications

LOS ANGELES -- Language Weaver, a leading software company developing enterprise software for the automated translation of human languages, today announced that it will provide two-day Customizer training sessions in both January and February. The Customizer training enables customers to increase efficiency and raise quality levels of their automated translations by adapting Language Weaver translation systems to the vocabulary and style of their own specialized or proprietary subject areas.

Two-day sessions will be offered in Los Angeles on January 23-24 and February 6-7, 2007 at professional computer classroom training facilities near Language Weaver headquarters. The January seminar supports customers with assimilation applications, where translation is used for information gathering and intelligence; for example, this is used in getting information from many languages into one language so the data can be processed and assessed, as it would be used in government intelligence, patent searches or scientific research applications. The February seminar is formatted to support customers with dissemination applications, where translation is a step in a multilingual documentation or information sharing process; for example, this is applicable to cases where data is being translated from one language, such as English, into several other languages so that a broader audience can access it, as it might be in user training manuals or marketing applications.

Both the January and February trainings will assist users to:

* Prepare data for the Customizer tool

* Use both the Customizer and Alignment tools easily

* Better utilize data collection techniques to increase the impact of customization

* Improve the customized translation systems over time.

The Customizer, a first tool of its kind in the translation industry, learns from previous translation efforts, creating a better return on a company's initial translation investment and improving the quality of future translations. The tool supports both government organizations and enterprise customers. It is especially useful for companies that need to maintain close control of sensitive in-house data, making it possible for restricted data to be incorporated into a production translation system without sending it to an outside vendor.

Unlike translation memory and dictionary tools, the Customizer actually learns from examples and distills words and phrases into patterns it has seen in the users' documents and translations, adding their probabilities into the statistical algorithms it uses for new translations. It learns corporate grammar and editorial style, and captures this knowledge in compact form that can be used for future translations. With the Customizer, users can fine-tune the baseline translation engine with previously translated documents that only certain levels of personnel can access, do it within their own time frame in just a few hours, and teach the system idiomatic expressions that might not be available in the baseline translation system and that are relevant only to their business or application.

For more information on classes or to register, contact Rosalie de los Santos at [e-mail] or call 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 software (SMTS), provides the highest quality output to date in automated translation. Language Weaver's translation systems produce fluent, 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 31 language offerings. Website: www.languageweaver.com.