“The Internet is still English-oriented; this being the case, there is not a lot of thought put into tackling computational problems that arise out of certain linguistic traits of non-English languages. Yet these languages are widely used over the Internet, Intranets and e-mail communication. Solutions for searching non-English texts and analyzing non-English speech are badly needed….Melingo’s role is to bridge the gap between these languages and the Internet; Whether its Hebrew, Spanish or Hindi – some languages need that extra analysis in order to provide good search tools, and applicable speech products for cellular access to the Internet. …..
“Other companies working in this space include Sakhr Software (http://www.sakhr.com; shown implemented at http://www.ajeeb.com; offers technologies that support FAST’s enterprise search platform) and Xerox Research Centre Europe (http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/arabic/). Basis Technology Corp. (http://www.basistech.com) offers the Rosette Arabic Language Analyzer (ARLA), a multi-platform linguistic engine that facilitates the analysis of documents written in Arabic”.
