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Lingsoft Project Ideas

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

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Lingsoft Project Ideas

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  1. LingsoftProject Ideas Michael Stormbom, Senior PM Lingsoft Oy Turku, September 14 2012

  2. 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

  3. 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…

  4. LMC Services • Proofing • Hyphenation • Morphological Analysis • Terminology Management • Translation • Language Identification • Speech Recognition • Document Quality

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Project 1: Language Learner • Show all forms of the word • Show translations and synonyms (if any)

  8. Project 1: Language Learner • Mark different parts of speech with a different color • Pressing a word pops up the full analysis

  9. Project 1: Language Learner • Fill in the blanks (the right form of the word)

  10. 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

  11. Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary • Show definitions and synonyms for a word • Language-independent (can be a setting)

  12. Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary • Highlight terms that have entries • Show definition

  13. Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary • Highlight rejected terms (vulgar, archaic, deprecated…) • Submit or edit terms to the term database

  14. 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 • michael.stormbom@lingsoft.fi • skype://stormbom • For information our language tools and demos, visit www.lingsoft.fi

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