ABBYY OFFERS NEW RETRIEVAL AND MORPHOLOGY ENGINE 
FOR MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS

Software Developers Use Advanced Natural Language Processing Tools for Processing and Indexing Information in 34 Languages

New York, NY (May 1, 2001) - ABBYY, a leader in OCR and linguistic technologies, announced today a new version of ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology (ARM) Engine. The ARM Engine is a software development kit (SDK) that 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 34 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.

The ARM Engine API consists of two parts:

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

The Morphology API of the ARM Engine allows developers to integrate the functions of morphology analysis (spell checking, lemmatisation, 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 has 32-bit COM-style API (Application Programming Interface) that can be easily used by C/C++ and Visual Basic development environments.

The ARM Engine supports 34 languages: Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Grabar), Armenian (Western), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (Belgian), English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, German (New Spelling), Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish and Ukrainian. A feature for indexing and search through multilingual documents (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 product lines 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 the 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. The 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. Nezavisimaya, one of the most widely read Russian newspapersÆ uses the ARM Engine in its annual CD archive publication.

ôBy integrating ABBYY's OCR, indexing and retrieval technologies into OPTiMA-WorkFlow, we were able to develop a new full-functional system of workflow class. Now this system is able to manage document flows of any scale for various enterprises. The synergistic effect of integration resulted in the superior quality of this new solution," said Efim Starostin, Head of IT, Optima.

A detailed description of the functionality of ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology 4.0 Engine can be found at http://www.abbyy.com/products/arme/index.htm. 

For additional product and pricing information, visit the companyÆs website at www.abbyy.com  or send e-mail to engine@abbyy.com.

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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