Highlight Language Analysis Suite

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), together with Basis Technology, have partnered to eliminate the difficulties in transliterating names of foreign persons and places into Intelligence Community (IC) standards. Through a multi-year program, licenses to the Highlight language analysis suite are available to all IC elements.

Keeping Transliterations Consistent and Names Straight

Translation between Arabic script languages and other languages is hard enough without having to wrestle with the technical details of file format or hunting for the correct spelling of foreign names — a time-consuming task, but vital for an accurate translation.

Basis Technology has developed the Highlight language analysis suite to tame the language and computer complexities of Arabic-script languages.

• Transliteration Assistant With this plug-in, the user can highlight a Romanized Arabic, Dari, Farsi, or Pashto name in a Microsoft Word or Excel document and convert the name to its spelling in the native script or the standardized transliteration (Romanization) in any of several transliteration standards. Within the tool, access an Arabic-English dictionary, word lists, gazetteers (place name databases), and the CIA’s Chiefs of State database with a click of the mouse. Highlight allows for “fuzzy” searching and the ability to upload agency unique glossaries or reference names.
• Arabic Editor This easy-to-use text editor for Microsoft Windows permits the input of Arabic text using a standard keyboard layout. Suitable for typists from linguistic experts to beginning Arabic students. Save plain text files to the desired encoding: CP1256, ISO-8859-6 or Unicode.
• Geoscope Map Viewer This map viewer lets the user verify the spelling of geographic features in the Middle East or see where they are located.

Download the Highlight language analysis suite brochure.