Saturday, April 16, 2011

Advanced linguistic analysis for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages

Press Release

Exalead and Basis Technology Partnership
Extends Capabilities of Exalead Information Access Platform
to Asian and Middle Eastern Languages

Advanced linguistic analysis for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages
improves search accuracy for Exalead CloudView EL (Extended Language) customers

Exalead, a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), and Basis Technology today announced a partnership that integrates Basis Technology’s Rosette® linguistics platform into the newly released Exalead CloudView EL (Extended Language). By licensing the Rosette technology— for languages including linguistically complex Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu— CloudView EL will offer enhanced search capabilities and greater accuracy to corporate users in Asia and the Middle East.

CloudView EL is a unique information access platform that collects unstructured and structured data from any source and transforms it into a single, structured information resource for unified searches or for building next-generation search-based business applications.
CloudView EL draws on Rosette to apply language-specific text analysis to yield highly accurate and comprehensive search results. Rosette also performs morphological analysis of text and named entity extraction (people, places and organizations) in Asian and Middle Eastern languages, an essential step to achieve superior search recall and quality.

“We partnered with Basis Technology to extend our commitment to search excellence into Asia and the Middle East,” said Laurent Couillard, CEO of Exalead. “Rosette’s speed and textual analysis in a multitude of languages is a key piece in enabling our worldwide customers to unlock the hidden value of data across all sources and languages.”

“Accurate search is tightly linked with high-quality, language-specific text analysis,” Steve Cohen, COO of Basis Technology, said. “We are pleased that Exalead —one of the world’s most innovative search platforms—has chosen our linguistic technology to enhance their edge in the competitive search market.”
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About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by Search engine pioneers, Exalead® is the leading search-based application platform provider to business and government. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCooper, ViaMichelin, GEFCO, WorldBank and Sanofi Pasteur, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with its platform, Exalead CloudView™, which uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-used data in the new hybrid enterprise and Web information cloud. CloudView collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications. Exalead website: www.exalead.com
Exalead was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in June 2010. Exalead has offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

About Dassault Systèmes

As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 115,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes applications provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.
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