Trey Jones, formerly at AppTek has written this nice introductory article at MultiLingual Computing describing some very time appropriate technologies developed at his former company. I have had the chance to see some of these technologies in action and I could say that AppTek has put in place a really impressive system that could be very useful to many agencies today.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Monday, June 21, 2004
Vericept Teams with Expert to Create Grant Template to Aid Schools in Obtaining Federal Funding for Security in Schools
Vericept Corporation, the leading provider of risk management solutions, today announced it is currently teaming with expert Nancy Willard, executive director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use, to create a grant template to aid schools in obtaining federal funding for use of Vericept's technology, through the Safe and Drug Free Schools program. Vericept enables "virtual adult supervision" of student Internet, e-mail and network use through its Vericept Intelligence Platform. Monitoring thousands of schools across the country, Vericept's solution identifies instances of network misuse by children, such as cyber bullying, visits to Web sites that provide potentially dangerous information, online drug dealing and e-mail dialogues threatening violent acts - providing school staff with the tools and information they need to deter and prevent potentially harmful behavior.
Online Editors for Typing Foreign Characters
Tomasz Szynalski just posted on linguist the link to Online Editors for Typing Foreign Characters. They provide buttons and keyboard shortcuts for entering foreign characters (accents, umlauts) without having to memorize Alt codes or install keyboard layouts.
I have referred my students to book publishers' sites in the past. I am glad they will now have access to this clean, ad free editors.
The URLs are:
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
PeopleSoft Teams with iPhrase to Deliver Leading Customer Interaction Technology for PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 8.9
iPhrase Contact Classification Server offers robust natural language functionality for multi-channel customer interactions. Unlike other solutions that rely on simple keyword matching or statistical classification, ICCS is able to understand the intent of highly dynamic and informal communications such as e-mail, chat sessions and free-form self-service queries. The product also has the unique ability to learn in real time from customer and agent interactions and increase its accuracy over time. These capabilities can reduce implementation and maintenance costs without sacrificing consistent, accurate responses.
Friday, June 04, 2004
Email product sends strong message to investors
XtraMind has been creating a positive impression amongst customers using their innovative product XM-MailMinder but with private investors as well.
Logos MT Technology - still in play...
It was interesting to read that Logos Machine Translation Technology, after many adventures, gets a new chance. Apptek is a big technology provider to the government. No better place to get a second, third, nth chance... If this becomes true, that would be another proof that this company really "walks on water."
Eisenach, May 4, 2004 – The technology corporation GlobalWare AG has sold a comprehensive developer license for the LOGOS technology to Net2Voice amounting to 2.65 million Euros. The company, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, develops and markets multilingual speech based software solutions for multi-media, internet and telephone applications in addition to translation technologies and speech recognition modules based on transfer systems.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Language Weaver and P.H. Brink International Sign Beta Agreement to Develop Domain-Specific Translations
P.H. Brink to License Software for Usage in Its Automated Workflow System.
Language Weaver and P.H. Brink International Sign Beta Agreement to Develop Domain-Specific Translations
Language Weaver and P.H. Brink International Sign Beta Agreement to Develop Domain-Specific Translations; P.H. Brink to License Software for Usage in Its Automated Workflow System. This is an interesting development. All the "old" MT companies have tried this approach to try to make money - unfortunately, many of them did not succeed. I am surprised LW is following this proven loser approach. Are they becoming just another MT company?