Convera and Basis Technology To Deliver Search Solutions in Arabic and Other Languages for US Government
Arlington, VA and Cambridge, MA, June 10, 2003—Convera (Nasdaq: CNVR), a leading provider of search and categorization software for enterprises and government agencies, has teamed up with Basis Technology, a leading provider of multilingual computing solutions, to provide search capabilities in Arabic and other languages to its government customers. Convera is enhancing its current offering of more than 45 languages by incorporating Basis Technology’s line of Rosette® Language Analyzers, including its recently introduced Rosette Arabic Language Analyzer (ARLA), into its RetrievalWare knowledge discovery platform. The integration provides a robust solution for enabling users to search for and categorize mission-critical information created in Arabic and other complex languages.
Convera’s RetrievalWare is a comprehensive knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that is easily optimized for specific industry and government agency applications. With RetrievalWare 8, customers now have a single integrated platform that categorizes and organizes all content including unstructured text, image, video, and paper assets, in addition to a variety of structured data sources. Basis Technology provides multi-platform, high-performance linguistic engines for analyzing documents. The combination of the two technologies enables highly accurate search results among documents, even those written in the complex Arabic language.
“Incorporating Basis Technology’s linguistic technology into our search and categorization solutions is another step forward in our effort to provide our customers with language capabilities specific to their needs,” said Mushtaq Khan, Vice President of Product Management, Convera. “Our relationship with Basis Technology will allow us to continue to meet the strong demand among our customers for multi-language search technology.”
Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology, said, “We’re pleased to provide Convera and their government customers with additional multilingual search capabilities, particularly for Arabic. Because of the language’s many complexities, accurate search of Arabic requires heavy-duty linguistic capabilities. The combination of ARLA and RetrievalWare provides a powerful new tool for identifying potentially valuable information in hundreds of thousands of documents written in Arabic.”
Convera’s search technology is currently used by more than 200 government customers around the world, including 80 intelligence and law enforcement-related installations. Customers include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (UK), German Tax Evasion Bureau (Saxony), Swedish National Criminal Intelligence Service, US Customs, US Department of Justice, US Department of Defense, and US State Department.
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.
About Convera
Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search and categorization solutions. Convera’s RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate, and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 800 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera’s search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service, and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com.