BASIS TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES JAPANESE MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER
— Internet Leaders Deploy Japanese Search and Retrieval with JMA —
INTERNET WORLD CHICAGO 2000 (Booth #1235), Chicago, IL, July 12, 2000—Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the premier provider of internationalization services and technology, announced today at Internet World the Japanese Morphological Analyzer (JMA), a text analysis and word segmentation engine that enables Japanese search and retrieval. JMA has already been adopted by leading Internet companies including eXcelon Corporation (NASDAQ: EXLN), Google Inc., Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS), Peregrine Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRGN), and Ultraseek Corporation (formerly Infoseek Software).
“Japan, the world’s second-largest economy, is quickly emerging as the biggest opportunity in global e-commerce,” said Carl Hoffman, president and CEO of Basis Technology. “JMA enables US e-businesses and search engines to enter the Japanese market rapidly, with the most advanced language segmentation technology available today.”
The Japanese Morphological Analyzer is a robust source code library that addresses the problem of indexing and searching Japanese text, a complex, written language which does not use spaces to separate words. Combined with the industry’s most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries, JMA enables e-businesses and search engines to index and search Japanese document repositories, including text fields and databases; generate word lists; create efficient text browsers; and verify consistency between ideographic (kanji) and phonetic (yomi) forms. These capabilities are particularly valuable for Internet search applications, enterprise-wide software applications, and for e-businesses establishing direct-to-consumer channels to Asian markets.
“With JMA, we have enabled our customers to engage in dynamic business-to-business e-commerce with Japanese-based partners, suppliers and customers,” said Ken Rugg, Vice President, Product Development at eXcelon Corp. “It would have been nearly impossible for us to provide this level of Japanese capability to our product line without the Japanese Morphological Analyzer.”
“Congratulations on creating some great technology that enabled our product in a Japanese market,” said Fred Luddy, CTO, Peregrine Systems. “Our product author found your technology to be exactly what we needed.”
Japanese Morphological Analyzer version 3.0 is currently available for evaluation, and will ship in August. JMA 3.0 is Basis Technology’s most accurate, high-performance segmentation engine to date for the Japanese language.
JMA is licensed as a royalty-free software development kit (SDK) or as a source code distribution on all major platforms, including Win32, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX and Linux. For more information, please visit www.basistech.com or email info@basistech.com.
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from multilingual text. The company’s Rosette® 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 America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity and Yahoo!.
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.