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Lingsoft Project Ideas. Michael Stormbom, Senior PM Lingsoft Oy Turku , September 14 2012 . Lingsoft. Translations and language technology company based in Turku Primary market is the Nordic countries - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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LingsoftProject Ideas
Michael Stormbom, Senior PMLingsoft Oy
Turku, September 14 2012
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Lingsoft
• Translations and language technology company based in Turku• Primary market is the Nordic countries• Languages include Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål
and Nynorsk, Danish, English, German…
• Lingsoft has a wide array of language tools• Spellchecking and grammar checking• Speech recognition• Word and sentence analyses• Terminology management
• Widely used language services and tools• Proofing: Standard tools in MS Office, 85% market share
among Swedish newspapers• Search engines: PRH, Ellibs e-bookstore • Transcription: Finnish hospitals, YLE subtitling
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Language Management Central
• Language Management• All aspects of an organisation’s language needs• Terminologies, translations, proofing…
• LMC• Cloud service encompassing all of Lingsoft’s language
tools and services• One API for all services• Combination of services: “intelligent” search using
translations, synonyms…• REST/JSON and WebServices/SOAP
• Integrations• DTP• Search engines• Transcriptions• Translations• Information extraction…
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LMC Services
• Proofing
• Hyphenation
• Morphological Analysis
• Terminology Management
• Translation
• Language Identification
• Speech Recognition
• Document Quality
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Projects – Showcase Apps
• Main idea• Showcase different features of LMC• Two similar concepts with slightly different
emphasis: language learning and terminology management
• Tablet and smartphone apps• Android and/or iOS• Alternatively web applications
• Freedom when it comes to GUI and functionality• Effective as a showcase• The easier to use the better• Suggestions and ideas welcome
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Project 1: Language Learner
• App for learning Swedish (or Finnish, or both) as a second language
• Utilises several LMC services• Word and sentence analysis• Synonym dictionaries• Machine translations
• Three screens (+ welcome screen, help…)• Word lookup• Sentence analyser• Exercises
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Project 1: Language Learner
• Show all forms of the word• Show translations and synonyms (if any)
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Project 1: Language Learner
• Mark different parts of speech with a different color• Pressing a word pops up the full analysis
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Project 1: Language Learner
• Fill in the blanks (the right form of the word)
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Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary
• App for multilingual dictionaries
• Utilises LMC Terminology services• Term Search• Term Highlighting (highlight relevant terms in a
text)• Term Suggestion (suggest your own terms)
• The user can suggest entries that will appear once approved
• Three screens (+ welcome screen, help…)• Term lookup• Highlighter• Suggest term
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Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary
• Show definitions and synonyms for a word• Language-independent (can be a setting)
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Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary
• Highlight terms that have entries• Show definition
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Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary
• Highlight rejected terms (vulgar, archaic, deprecated…)• Submit or edit terms to the term database
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Lingsoft Projects
• Ideas from both projects can be combined into one
• The LMC API is also available for other projects
• API documentation available on request
• For further information, contact Michael• [email protected]• skype://stormbom
• For information our language tools and demos, visit www.lingsoft.fi