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Polderland Language & Speech Technology B.V.

Polderland Language & Speech Technology B.V. Our vision.

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Polderland Language & Speech Technology B.V.

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  1. Polderland Language & Speech Technology B.V.

  2. Our vision To be an independent company at the forefront of international language technology, where our people come first and we operate according to socially & environmentally ethical principles to efficiently make language technology universally available

  3. Polderland • Founded by current owner in 1993 • Financially independent • Leading supplier to Microsoft • Tools in 40 languages • Knowledge of over 100 languages • 15 employees + freelancers • Customers over 5 continents

  4. Products & services • Core business: Writing support tools • Knowledge management & information retrieval • Language technology consultancy(including for governmental bodies)

  5. Writing support tools • Proofing tools: • Spelling checker • E/NL/Frysk/Mac/Bos/Afr/Ice/Pap/Cat • Medical/Legal/Children • Grammar checker • NL • Thesaurus • NL/E/Cat • Hyphenator • NL/Frysk/Zulu/Xhosa/enz… • Multiplex • …It/Br/Dan/Fin/Swe/Nor

  6. PASO – Polderland Advanced Speller for OfficeOxford Spellchecker & Dictionary

  7. Consisterm specialized spelling checkers

  8. Huygens Dictionary for four languages:

  9. Polderland and Lirics objectives • Processing third party materials (mono, bi- multi-lingual lexicons, databases, dictionaries) • Morphological tools (expansion, analysis, annotation) • Syntactic tools (generation and analysis) • Cooperation with academia and industry • Lowering the thresholds: the “other” languages

  10. Some first thoughts on Lirics • Brave attempt and looks promising. • We need a mechanism to keep informed on tools. • Publishers have invested heavily in reorganising lexical content these last ten years (tape, SGML, XML) and will need a strong motivation to do that again. • Much of the lexical material is still marked up only for rendering and not for structure. • Some of the tools we use internally could be made to produce material in a LMF compliant format. • Some terms are strangely missing from the glossary: ‘affix’, ‘morpheme’, ‘composition’ to name a few. • Most of the materials we use can be translated into LMF without too much trouble. • I think I would propose to establish a structure for DatCats, mainly as a guide, not as part of the prescribed or preferred approach. • LMF has potential to simplify collaboration among and between academia and the industry. • Too early to be much more specific.

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