Convera Adds multilingual search capabilities to excalibur

According to Datamonitor, Convera is adding multilingual search capabilities to their technology.

Essentially they are using Paris-based Temis’s XeLDA engine into Convera’s Excalibur platform, an indexing and categorization technology. This will include support to the following languages:

French
German
Spanish
Russian

Integrating both technologies makes sense to me.

Excalibur is an enterprise indexing technology that classifies by categories documents, but lacks of language identification capabilities based on sentence analysis. XeLDA does this, precisely.

For those unfamiliar with Convera, it is well known that in the past they have done some deals with In-Q-tel, the business arm of the CIA.

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Gemma Houghton

Gemma has worked in international search marketing for over 15 years and is Director of Marketing at Webcertain, overseeing all marketing activities for the Group. She also organises and programmes Webcertain’s International Search Summit and International Social Summit, Barcelona-based conferences focusing on international and multilingual digital marketing. Gemma holds a Professional Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Diploma in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute, and a BA joint honours degree in French and German.

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Andy Atkins-KrÃ¼ger says:
April 13, 2006 at 8:14 pm
That’s a really interesting development. Does this mean you can search in one language and get an answer in another!
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