March 13, 2013
Library Automation Solution Adds Support for Multilingual Content
Cambridge, Mass., and Jerusalem, Israel—March 13, 2013. Basis Technology, the global leader in multilingual text analytics, and Ex Libris® Group, a top provider of library automation solutions, announced that Ex Libris has licensed the Rosette® linguistics platform from Basis Technology for integration into the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Rosette enables search-based applications to analyze complex multilingual documents, including those written in Chinese.
In light of its rapid expansion in mainland China and Chinese-speaking countries, Ex Libris will now enhance Chinese searching through the integration of the Rosette platform’s Base Linguistics module. Base Linguistics provides morphological analyses of multilingual text by examining distinct features in each language, such as punctuation, words, and affixes. Search engines rely on essential linguistic services provided by Rosette, including tokenization, lemmatization, decompounding, part-of-speech tagging, sentence-boundary detection, and noun-phrase extraction.
David Beychok, vice president for discovery and delivery solutions at Ex Libris, commented: ”Academic and research libraries in mainland China and Chinese-speaking countries represent a growing sector of the Primo customer base, which comprises over 1,300 institutions in 53 countries. Leveraging Rosette in Primo will benefit our customers in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and others around the world with significant holdings in the Chinese language.”
”We’re excited to be working with Ex Libris, and we are confident that Rosette will enable Primo to deliver the high-precision, high-relevance results that research libraries demand,” remarked Steve Cohen, chief operating officer at Basis Technology.
About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and research libraries. Offering the only comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 80 countries on six continents.
Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to maximize productivity and efficiency and, at the same time, greatly enhance the user experience. By empowering users to discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge to knowledge.
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About Basis Technology
Basis Technology develops innovative products and solutions incorporating multilingual text analytics and digital forensics. Its Rosette® linguistics platform provides morphological analysis, entity extraction, name matching, name translation, and Arabic chat translation, yielding useful information from unstructured data in such fields as information retrieval, government intelligence, e-discovery, and financial compliance. Our digital forensics team pioneers better, faster, and cheaper techniques to extract forensic evidence, keeping government and law enforcement ahead of exponential growth of data storage volumes.
Our products and services are used by over 250 major organizations, including Amazon.com, Clearwell, EMC, Endeca/Oracle, Exalead/Dassault, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NetBase, Oracle, and governments around the world. For more information, see www.basistech.com
