Licensing Systems

Smartsourcing Off Shore Development Dedicated Team Licensing Systems Localization (ERP) Systems

Clients:
Several Clients, mostly in International software business with a couple of end-users (governmental agencies).
 
Location:
Throughout the world
 
Introduction:
In 1987, in the very beginnings of NLP (Natural Language Processing) research Era, work began with a large team of linguitions, developers and consultants to try to come up with a mathematical formula to deal with the Arabic language. This team at its peak, reached twenty people, divided into three groups (Linguitions, Data gathering and entry, in addition to research and development)

Objective:
The initial goal of the project was to launch the first ever Arabic Spell Checker. Something that did not exist in the Arabic language under any platform. This goal then was extended to develop the first Arabic morphological analyzer, grammar checker, dictionary and thesaurus.
 
Challenges:
To try to derive the mathematical formulas related to the unique nature of the Arabic language, such as the complex nature of prefixing and suffixing, and the enormous number of words in its lexicon.
Being pioneers in the field of creating the first ever Arabic Spell Checker was the greatest challenge especially since the natural language processing science was still not mature enough.
Different Arabic schools of writing roles was to be handled.
 
Scope of Work:
>>Professional development teams spent enormous amount of time and much effort to come up with a mathematical structure to understand and use Arabic language in order to premier spell checker in 1989, and to emphasize the leadership in this area of technology.
 
Results:
>>Developed first ever Arabic Spelling Checker in 1989, followed by the first ever Arabic Grammar Checker, Arabic Morphological Analyzer, and Arabic/English, English/Arabic dictionaries.
>>Fourteen of the world’s leading software companies own licenses of our pioneering linguistic technologies in all the above programs.
Several large to huge corporate/organizations were granted license to use our linguistic technologies within their applications in sophisticated areas of Arabic textual databases as morphological analyzers.
>>Tens of scientific papers were presented in international conferences and conventions talking about computerized Arabic linguistic technologies.
>>Indisputable reputation in the field of natural language processing (NLP).
 
Duration and Staff:
190 person/years were invested in different areas of research and development, including linguistic research, programming, and study, artificial intelligence, computer programming. Several technical platforms were used.
 
Technical Skills:
The main bulk of the technology were developed using strict ANSI C enabling the components to successfully run under many platforms including Windows XX (16 & 32 bits)/ MAC OS/ Unix as well as DOS.

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