LingsoftProject Ideas

Michael Stormbom, Senior PMLingsoft Oy

Turku, September 14 2012

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

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…

LMC Services

• Proofing

• Hyphenation

• Morphological Analysis

• Terminology Management

• Translation

• Language Identification

• Speech Recognition

• Document Quality

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

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

Project 1: Language Learner

• Show all forms of the word• Show translations and synonyms (if any)

Project 1: Language Learner

• Mark different parts of speech with a different color• Pressing a word pops up the full analysis

Project 1: Language Learner

• Fill in the blanks (the right form of the word)

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

Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary

• Show definitions and synonyms for a word• Language-independent (can be a setting)

Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary

• Highlight terms that have entries• Show definition

Project 2: Intelligent Dictionary

• Highlight rejected terms (vulgar, archaic, deprecated…)• Submit or edit terms to the term database

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