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LanguageWare is the new generation IBM linguistic platform. It was designed from the ground up to address the demands posed by today's global applications.

LanguageWare functionality

A full description of our capabilities can be found in the documentation included with the LanguageWare Resource Workbench which is available for download from Alphaworks, http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/lrw/faq. Below is a quick list of the main features:

  • Dictionary Lookup
    [supporting lookup functions, such as synonym expansion, hyphenation, approximate/fuzzy string matching…]

  • Language Identification

  • Lexical Analysis
    [process through which the text-level analysis is performed]

  • Morphological Analysis
    [lemmatization, generate inflected form, inflect from model, …]

  • Morphological Guesser
    [for handling words not in the dictionary]

  • Multiword Units
    [finds terms made up of multiple words handling inflections, misses, ordering…]

  • Parsing
    [ability to build rules, regular expressions, or shallow grammars for identifying entities in text]

  • Part of Speech (POS) Tagging
    [identifying the POS of words or phrases, with disambiguation]

  • Semantic Analysis & Disambiguation
    [allows for concepts (as opposed to terms) to be spotted in texts and disambiguated with respect to other concepts present, leveraging semantic graphs that connect concepts]

  • Text Correction
    [error checking and spelling suggestion]

  • Text Segmentation
    [tokenization & sentence and paragraph detection]

  • Tooling
    [Eclipse-based tooling, LanguageWare Resource Workbench, for customizing LanguageWare - build dictionaries, rules, UIMA pipelines, compare analysis results, get statistics, performance benchmarking, …]

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