ABBYY SOFTWARE HOUSE OFFERS NEW RETRIEVAL AND MORPHOLOGY ENGINE FOR MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS

Software Developers Use Advanced Natural Language Processing Tools For Processing And Indexing Information In 31 Languages

Las Vegas, NV (November 13, 2000) ¡ ABBYY Software House announced today a new version of ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology (ARM) Engine. ARM Engine is a software development kit (SDK), which allows developers to integrate full text indexing, retrieval and linguistic technologies into their own applications. The new version of ARM Engine with its support of 31 natural languages is an appropriate indexing and retrieval system for the multilingual world. This is an ideal solution for developers, creating multilingual document processing systems. 

ARM Engine API is consists of two parts:

Text Retrieval API of the ARM Engine allows developers to integrate means of retrieving needed documents from masses of text information stored in various electronic repositories: corporate information systems, CD archives or Web servers into their applications. The Engine makes the complex task of retrieval easy by creating compact index and using efficient search algorithms and morphologic knowledge bases of natural languages.

Morphology API of the ARM Engine allows developers to integrate functions of morphology analysis (spell checking, lemmatization, paradigm generation) into various systems of automatic processing of electronic text information: text search and retrieval applications with morphology analysis, classifiers of text information (e.g. ôspamö protection).

The Engine API (application programming interface) conforms to COM (component object model) standard and can be easily used by C/C++, Visual Basic, Delphi or any other development tools supporting COM components.

The ARM Engine supports 31 languages: Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Grabar), Armenian (Western), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, German (New Spelling), Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish and Ukrainian. Indexing and search through multilingual documents feature (any combination of the above-indicated languages) is also available.

The ARM Engine is a proven tool for application development. It has been integrated into established products such as: ABBYY Lingvo (an English-Russian-English electronic dictionary), ABBYY FineReader (an OCR-system) and ABBYY Internet Index Server (a web-search application, used by ABBYY corporate web-site). 

Siemens Nixdorf uses the ARM Engine as a component of its ARCIS electronic archive û a complete system of archiving, information processing and record maintenance. Many companies worldwide have successfully integrated ARM technologies into their information systems. Russian software company Optima integrated ARM technologies of text processing into its OPTiMA-WorkFlow system, considerably enhancing the systemÆs capabilities of electronic document archives processing. One of the largest Russian system integrators LANIT uses ABBYYÆs full-text search module as a part of its document management system. LanDocs. ôNezavisimaya,ö one of the most widely read Russian newspapers (with a circulation of over 100,000) uses the ARM Engine in its annual CD archive publication. 

"Due to the integration of ABBYYÆs OCR, indexing and retrieval technologies into OPTiMA-WorkFlow, we faced the birth of a new full-functional system of workflow class. Now this system is able to manage the document flow of any scale for various enterprises. The synergy effect of integration developed into superior quality of this new solution,ö said Efim Starostin, Head of IT, Optima.

The ABBYY Retrieval and Morphology engine is available directly through ABBYY USA for $890.00 USD. The price includes licenses for three developers. For more information about the ARM Engine please visit our website at http://www.abbyy.com  or contact us at engine@abbyy.com 
About ABBYY USA

About ABBYY USA
ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Group, which publishes and distributes ABBYY products in North America. ABBYY (ABBYY Software House) specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR/ICR/OMR software as well as FineReader development tools, which allow developers to integrate OCR into their solutions. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, C-Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, L&H/Kurzweil, Arkenstone, Banctec (Japan), Visionshape, Acer, Microtek, OTG Software, Grantsmart, Mustek, Umax, NewSoft, Primax, and Jet Fax. For more information about ABBYY, visit its Web site at www.abbyy.com or contact ABBYY USA, 46560 Fremont Blvd, Suite 105, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: (510) 226-6717. Fax: (510) 226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com 

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