ABBYY 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

CeBIT, Germany (March 22nd, 2001) ù ABBYY Software House announces today a new version of ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology (ARM) Engine. The 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. 

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: 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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 from ABBYY Europe. For further information or prices of the ARM Engine and licences please visit our website at http://www.abbyy.com or contact us at engine@abbyyeu.com

About ABBYY Group

The ABBYY Group comprises ABBYY Software House (Moscow), ABBYY USA (Fremont, CA), ABBYY Ukraine (Kiev) and ABBYY Europe (Munich, Germany). ABBYY Software House has specialised in the development of software for OCR, ICR, dictionaries, semantics and electronic dictionaries. ABBYY´s products include the FineReader series of OCR/ICR/OMR* software - tools for automatically inputting text, tables and forms into computers, FineReader Development Tools, which enable the user to integrate OCR into their own solutions, and ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology Engine - SDK - a development tool that enables ABBYYÆs technology to be used in other software products. FineReader 4.0/5.0 received 35 awards from leading IT magazines worldwide. Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, Sumitomo Electric Systems, L&H/Kurzweil, Bantec (Japan), Visionshape, Jet Fax, NewSoft, Primax and Microtek are all companies that have licensed the ABBY OCR/ICR technology. For further information: www.abbyy.com