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Basis Technology to Enhance Multilingual Search in
MSN Search Engine
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Basis Technology today
announced that Microsoft Corp. has chosen the Rosette Linguistics Platform
to support Web searches in its new MSN search engine. The companies have
entered into a multi-year agreement in which Microsoft has the option to
utilize all of Basis Technology's linguistics software, including components
for language identification, morphological analysis, and entity extraction.
"MSN(R) Search aims to
deliver fast, relevant search results to consumers all over the world," said
Justin Osmer, product manager for MSN Search. "We are happy to work closely
with Basis Technology because of their long and distinguished track record
in supporting multilingual search."
On Nov. 11, 2004, MSN
released a global beta of the improved MSN Search service worldwide. The new
MSN Search delivers the information consumers are looking for online faster
through a combination of up-to-date resources and search tools that make it
possible for consumers to tailor search to their needs.
Rosette performs linguistic
analysis that helps information retrieval applications understand search
queries. For example, Rosette identifies individual words for languages such
as Japanese that do not use spaces between words, breaks compound words into
their individual components, and identifies parts-of-speech such as verb,
adjective, etc. This information increases the accuracy of search results.
Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis
Technology, said, "Being chosen by Microsoft to support this essential
component of their new MSN Search service is very exciting. We're committed
to ensuring that MSN Search consumers have an excellent experience
regardless of the language they are using."
The Rosette Linguistics
Platform uses state of the art Natural Language Processing techniques to
improve information retrieval, text mining and other applications and apply
them to global markets. Rosette provides capabilities like identifying the
language of incoming text, providing a normalized representation in Unicode,
and locating names, places and other key concepts.
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com)
provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from
multilingual text. The company's Rosette(R) Linguistics Platform is a suite
of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components
designed for applications that analyze and process all the world's languages.
Top-tier software vendors,
content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely
on Basis Technology's solutions for Unicode compliance, language
identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and
entity extraction. Clients include Amazon.com, America Online, Ask Jeeves,
Convera, Endeca, FAST, Hewlett-Packard, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman,
PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Software AG, and Verity.
Company headquarters are
located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco,
California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit
www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.
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