"WritersUA is excited to power searches on our Web site with AnswerWorks™. We chose AnswerWorks™ because it is user-friendly and produces high quality results. In addition to helping our customers find information faster, AnswerWorks™ demonstrates how user assistance professionals can deploy search technology to improve the experience of software users."
Joe Welinske, President of WritersUA
Language Proofing Products

CorrectEnglish™ Webservice

Overview
Nonnative English speakers outnumber native English speakers 3-to-1 worldwide, comprising a significant number of individuals seeking efficient, effective English language improvement. To help you reach this international market, CorrectEnglish™ provides cross-lingual grammar and style proofing technology that meets the needs of native and nonnative English writers alike.
Description
Extend your global reach by offering products with advanced cross-lingual English proofing capabilities in 11 languages. Specifically designed to help nonnative English writers improve the quality of their writing, CorrectEnglish™ provides detailed feedback on grammar and style errors in their native language to enhance the usability and value of proofing support.

CorrectEnglish includes proprietary natural language parsers for rapid, accurate processing, robust rule engines, and extensive micro-dictionaries and dictionary options to provide a comprehensive proofing solution.

Leverage CorrectEnglish on any platform with our webservice hosted solution. With a fully customizable CorrectEnglish solution, it's easy to optimize integration, distribution, and performance to best meet the needs of your product.
Benefits
With CorrectEnglish™ proofing technology, you can increase the depth and breadth of your product offerings by offering grammar and style proofing that is tailored to nonnative English speakers.
  • Reach global markets of English writers and learners with value-added proofing capabilities.
    • Distinguish your product with advanced cross-lingual proofing support that greatly increases utility for nonnative English speakers in business, educational, and professional applications.
    • Tap into the growing market of English language learners by offering customers accessible, comprehensive language support.
    • Accommodate the needs of the global English-speaking community with support for British and American English conventions.
  • Improve organizational efficiency and employee communications skills with accessible English grammar support.
    • Ensure high standards and increase productivity by providing consistent, expert proofing to all of your employees.
    • Support the development of better professional writing skills with an invaluable proofing tool that aids native and nonnative English speakers alike.
    • Reduce copy-editing time and stress while improving the quality of communications, from support emails to press releases.
  • Reduce software development and maintenance costs with flexible solutions.
    • Shorten time to market and reduce development costs by embedding custom proofing solutions.
    • Provide proofing support seamlessly with the easily integrated and configured local software development kit.
    • Reduce software size and eliminate maintenance needs with the CorrectEnglish hosted service.
Languages
CorrectEnglish™ supports American and British English conventions and provides cross-lingual English grammar feedback in the following languages:
  • English
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Danish
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
Specs
  • Macintosh
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Unix
Customers
  • McCann Associates
  • Microsoft Office
  • Vantage Learning
  • WordFinder Software International
  • And more...
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International CorrectSpell™

Overview
Taking your products to an international market can be daunting, from adding multilingual support to creating flawless communications in multiple languages. Extend the reach of your products by incorporating International CorrectSpell™, advanced spell checking technology for languages used in more than 90 countries.
Description
International CorrectSpell™ is a robust multilingual spell checker developed for integration into publishing, proofing, and word processing applications. With support for 15 languages and variants used worldwide and base dictionaries covering more than 8 million words, International CorrectSpell provides comprehensive, all-purpose proofing in an easily implemented component design.

Engineered for use in multilingual environments, International CorrectSpell allows the user to quickly shift between proofing languages. Advanced parsing technologies reduce processing time, while supplemental dictionary resources and features target the dialect or professional lexicon that is appropriate for your audience's needs.

Field-specific and custom options further enhance International CorrectSpell's utility and value whether you use it internally or within your products. In addition to core spell checking functionality, each installation of International CorrectSpell offers auto-hyphenation, simplified character conversion, and expanded anagram and wildcard retrieval options.
Benefits
International CorrectSpell™ provides consistent, high-quality spell check in a multitude of world languages, helping your products and messages reach diverse markets.
  • Gain product recognition in world markets with multilingual spell checking capability.
    • Increase your product's global applicability and value with extended spelling support in 15 languages.
    • Improve the efficiency of publishing and proofing services with automated, multilingual spell check.
    • Ensure intuitive, high-quality performance with advanced proofing options and toolsets that are customizable to your product needs.
  • Target market verticals with flexible solutions for professional writing.
    • Boost proofing capabilities with micro-dictionaries for business/finance, medicine, and law.
    • Enhance users' experience with a spell checker that already knows the terminology, abbreviations, and acronyms of their profession.
    • Tailor each solution to the customer with personal or corporate dictionaries that make their names, terms, and trademarks part of the system itself.
Languages
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (American and British)
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål)
  • Portuguese (European and Brazilian)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
Specs
  • Macintosh
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • mobile
  • firmware
Customers
  • Avid
  • Gerber Scientific
  • IBM
  • Pearson Digital Learning
  • River Deep
  • STAR
  • Sunburst
  • And more...
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International Proofreader™

Overview
In today's global economy, clear communication across languages and cultures is vital. Increase your products' reach in an international market and improve internal communication by embedding International Proofreader™ into your software applications.
Description
Designed to bridge the gap between native and nonnative speakers, International Proofreader™ is a multilingual proofreading system that can be easily embedded into other software applications. Easily integrated on any platform, International Proofreader is available as either a web-based hosted solution or a local installation kit.

More than just a spell checker, this sophisticated technology provides correction capabilities for complex writing errors and style concerns in nearly 20 different languages, making it simple for anyone to produce grammatically correct writing.

Rather than simply checking for spelling and grammar errors word-by-word, International Proofreader analyzes streams of text to detect and correct grammatical, stylistic, and mechanical errors. By applying unique multiple-word processing to the text streams, International Proofreader identifies and corrects a wider range of errors than other spell and grammar checkers available on the market.
Benefits
Expand into the international arena and increase the accuracy of both customers' and employees' communication by allowing International Proofreader™ to correct spelling, grammar and style errors in your internal or external software applications.
  • Enhance your global presence and increase your market share with advanced multilingual proofing.
    • Support a global outlook by offering multilingual proofing capabilities in nearly 20 languages, including some that are rarely found in technological proofing solutions.
    • Target native and non-native language speakers and learners of major Western languages.
    • Reach growing groups and markets with support in their native tongues.
  • Improve the level and quality of communication with employees, customers and partners.
    • Detect and correct more errors in more languages than any competing proofing solution.
    • Reduce miscommunication resulting from typos, spelling, and grammatical errors.
    • Customize program implementation and features to maximize value and ease-of-use for target users.
Languages
  • Afrikaans
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (American Standards)
  • English (British Standards)
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
Specs
  • Macintosh
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Unix
Customers
  • AOL
  • Apple
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • Nuance
  • Oracle
  • And more...
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IntelliScope™ Search Products

iSEEK AnswerWorks™ SDK

Overview
Few computer users take full advantage of help functions for software applications when they have questions because locating relevant information is too time-consuming and ineffective. Now there's a way for businesses to create smarter help systems that make it easier for users to find the information they need - iSEEK AnswerWorks™ SDK.
Description
iSEEK AnswerWorks™ SDK allows product development teams and help system authors to enrich their existing help systems with linguistic and natural language based search. When embedded in a local or online help system, AnswerWorks searches multiple help resources and targets the most relevant and likely answers to users' queries, saving time for everyone involved.

Because iSEEK AnswerWorks employs an intuitive, natural language interface and semantic search technology, users can phrase their questions in everyday language and receive more accurate results. Answers are ranked by relevance based on the meaning of the query, so the most likely answer is always at the top of the list. Users simply point and click to launch the topic that solves their problem without time-consuming searches or assistance from live customer support.

iSEEK AnswerWorks provides a large degree of automation that simplifies updating and maintenance. No linguistic expertise is necessary - it's all provided by built-in AnswerWorks technology!
Benefits
Information is your most valuable asset - but only if you can find it! Incorporate iSEEK AnswerWorks™ SDK into your applications to gain faster, easier, and more accurate access to information in help systems and customer support solutions.
  • Increase customer satisfaction and retention with effective product support.
    • Provide instant service for both internal and external users with 24/7 access to answers from their desktop.
    • Empower users to find answers for themselves through the intuitive natural language interface.
    • Provide support for multiple languages in one compact system, streamlining help systems and knowledge bases.
  • Reduce the costs of developing and maintaining customer support programs while increasing service quality.
    • Supplement costly telephone or email support with easily navigable self-service help, allowing customer support reps to investigate and respond to inquiries that truly require their expertise.
    • Assist customers more efficiently and reliably by providing service reps with immediate, consolidated access to important information.
    • Provide new support hires with consistent, accurate information to facilitate shorter, more effective training periods.
    • Deploy a customized, targeted support solution rapidly for immediate ROI.
Languages
  • English
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
Specs
  • Windows 98
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
Customers
  • Adobe
  • ESRI
  • GE MDS
  • Intuit
  • McCann Associates
  • Mississippi Dept. of Education
  • Progress Software
  • Sage
  • Vantage Learning
  • And more...
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SearchEnhancer™

Overview
Seeking a solution that enhances your search technology in order to help users find and retrieve information quickly and easily in multiple languages? With SearchEnhancer™, OEMs can integrate a linguistic-based component into their applications to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their search technology and information retrieval systems.
Description
When embedded into an application, SearchEnhancer™ supplements existing search technology and information retrieval systems by incorporating a linguistic search engine that can be implemented on a wide variety of platforms. SearchEnhancer is easy to configure for various capabilities, performance requirements, and levels of sophistication.

Its advanced index processing system identifies the form and function of words and phrases in the source text or database, converts them to the appropriate forms for indexing, and flags "noise" words, creating index entries that more accurately reflect content.

Plus, SearchEnhancer increases the breadth of searches by using inflected and forms of words, spelling variants, and synonyms in addition to the queried word or phrase.
Benefits
SearchEnhancer™ enriches your existing search engine by adding linguistic features into the query process or the search technology itself.
  • Adds value to applications at lower costs.
    • Flexible implementation lets you install only the functions you need.
    • Multi-lingual capabilities help you reach an international clientele.
    • Rich language databases provide advanced linguistic-based search to supplement keyword search.
    • Dedicate in-house resources to tasks other than linguistic search development.
  • Improves search retrieval capability.
    • Enhance the relevance and precision of query results.
    • Access detailed information on specific attributes of words and phrases, the rules of word formation, and the relationships among words and groups of words in all supported languages.
    • Integrate linguistic functionality for the indexing and search components of structured information databases, content-based information retrieval systems, and text-intensive applications of any kind.
    • Store proper names, industry-specific acronyms, and other specialized terms in personal dictionaries for increased accuracy of retrieval results.
Languages
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
Specs
SearchEnhancer™ supports input and output in the following character sets:
  • Big Endian Unicode
  • Little Endian Unicode
  • DEC multinational
  • Macintosh
  • OS/2
  • Shift-JIS (Japanese only)
  • UNIX (ISO)
  • Windows (default)
SearchEnhancer supports the following platforms:
  • Operating Environment Compiler Platform
  • Windows 2000 MSVC 6.0 Compiler x86
  • Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) Sun WorkShop Compiler C 5.0 (32/64-bit) Sun
  • Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) Sun WorkShop Compiler C4.2 Sun
  • HPUX 10.2 HP92453-01 A.10.32.30 HP C Compiler Hewlett Packard
  • HPUX 11.x HP92453-01 A.10.32.30 HP C Compiler Hewlett Packard
  • SGI-IRIX 6.x MIPSpro 7.2 32- and 64-Bit Silicon Graphics
Customers
  • AOL
  • Ask.com
  • And more...
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Language Recognizer™

Overview
In today's dynamic online world, applications must be able to meet the diverse needs of a global audience. Supporting 42 languages and dialects, Language Recognizer™ enhances web and communications products by automating processing and page viewing settings according to the language of input.
Description
Language Recognizer™ provides automated, highly accurate language support to OEMs, boosting the intelligence of language-based web, communications, and information retrieval applications. Rather than requiring users to manually set language information for proper processing and page viewing, Language Recognizer™ enables applications to dynamically and instantaneously identify the input language and respond with the appropriate fonts, characters, and datasets.

Language Recognizer uses a combination of linguistic and statistical analyses to ensure a high level of accuracy in recognizing more than 40 languages and dialects. Language Recognizer operates on continuous text-streams and analyzes the meaning and form of text through semantic and statistical n-gram parsing. It then automates any language-dependent processes, such as Optical Character Reading, spell checking, parsing, text-to-speech, and character code initialization.

Easy to use and fully documented, Language Recognizer features a modular design that allows OEMs to create flexible implementations offering a high level of control over integration and performance. Supplement Language Recognizer with other multilingual components by Vantage Linguistics for optimal language support.
Benefits
By automating language selection, Language Recognizer™ can improve the efficiency, performance, and intelligence of any language-dependent web and software application.
  • Increase your product's competitive value in world markets.
    • Enhance your application's intelligence through automatic recognition of more than 40 languages and dialects.
    • Correctly display pages with language-sensitive character and font code initialization in European, American, and Asian languages.
    • Enable seamless cross-lingual email communications by automatically initializing proper fonts and character codes.
  • Streamline product development and outcomes.
    • Reduce integration time and costs with the easy-to-use, fully documented API.
    • Run publishing and word processing programs more efficiently and with greater usability.
    • Improve search and information retrieval systems' relevance by targeting appropriate parsers and datasets.
    • Manage and utilize multilingual resources more effectively by eliminating the need to convert multilingual document repositories to UNICODE.
Languages
  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Arabic
  • Basque
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • Chinese Traditional
  • Chinese Simplified
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German (Standard and Swiss)
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latin
  • Litvanian
  • Malaysian
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål)
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (European and Brazilian)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Vietnamese
Specs
  • Macintosh
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Unix
Customers
  • AOL
  • Compass Learning
  • EMC
  • Microsoft
  • And more...
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Linguistic Data Services

Custom Databases

Overview
In support of knowledge sharing and advancement, Vantage Linguistics allows researchers and organizations to access its extensive collection of world language data for use in the development of language-based software and intelligence.
Description
The Vantage Linguistics Data Sources provide robust morphosyntactic data in nearly 20 languages, consolidating the resources of several industry leaders. Collectively, these data sources cover lexical and inflectional forms, semantic, meaning-based attributes, and syntactic and sentence-level data for over 10 million words.

Compiled by native language experts, our linguistic data sets provide unparalleled precision and detail. Custom data sets allow for need-appropriate language suites and flexible data formatting for streamlined implementation.

Ready for use in research and development, the Vantage Linguistics data may be licensed for public and private support of language-based initiatives. For more information about data solutions from Vantage Linguistics, please contact us.
Benefits
Covering the forms and meanings of over 10 million words, our vast linguistic repository provides a strong foundation for research, reference, and product development in nearly 20 languages.
  • Build on more accurate and meaningful linguistic data than competing statistical models for stronger results.
    • Enhance search, proofing, summarization, translation, and Artificial Intelligence programs.
    • Make advanced analysis and programming possible with semantic, syntactic, and inflectional data.
    • Increase the intelligence of your products with natural language repositories of word forms and meanings.
  • Save resources and get the data you need with custom data solutions.
    • Incorporate the knowledge of over 30 years of linguistic research, instantly.
    • Save organizational time and resources - receive reliable linguistic data in a format customized to your needs.
    • Choose a format that will allow you to easily integrate or access the data in your software or research projects.
Languages
  • Afrikaans
  • Australian
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Norwegian Bokmål
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
Specs
Please contact us for more information about custom data sets and to discuss how Vantage Linguistics Data Solutions can fit your needs.
Customers
  • Business Objects
  • Corel
  • JustSystems
  • Microsoft
  • MultiAd Services
  • Nuance
  • Sunburst
  • And more...
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