LinguaSys

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LinguaSys, Inc.
Industrysoftware
Founded2010
FounderBrian Garr
Headquarters Boca Raton, Florida
ProductsTGPhoto
Servicesmultilingual human language software
Website linguasys.net   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

LinguaSys, Inc. was a company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. LinguaSys provided multilingual human language software and services [1] to financial, banking, hospitality, Customer Relations Management, technology, forensics [2] and telecommunications blue chip enterprises, and the government and military.

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History

LinguaSys was co-founded by chief executive officer Brian Garr in Boca Raton, Florida, USA; [3] [4] Chief Technology Officer Vadim Berman in Melbourne, Australia; and Vice President of Development and Architecture Can Unal in Darmstadt, Germany in 2010.[ citation needed ]

CEO Brian Garr was formerly CTO of Globalink from 1995 to 1998 and is a recipient of the Smithsonian Institution's "Heroes in Technology" award for his work in Machine Translation.[ citation needed ]

Billionaire Mark Cuban began investing in LinguaSys, Inc., in 2012. [5] [6] [7]

Also in 2012, LinguaSys partnered with Salesforce.com, adding multilingual text analytics abilities to the company's social marketing services.

In 2014, LinguaSys made their technology available in a public cloud. [8]

In 2015, LinguaSys added NLUI Server, which enables building Siri-like natural language applications rapidly in a variety of languages, to the products available in the public cloud. [9]

In August 2015, LinguaSys was acquired by Aspect Software. [10] [11]

Products and services

LinguaSys uses interlingual natural language processing software to provide multilingual text, sentiment, relevance and conceptual understanding and analysis. [12] [13] LinguaSys trademarked its proprietary interlingual technology called Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine. [14] LinguaSys' multilingual software solutions are customized by clients and used via SaaS and behind the firewall. LinguaSys is an IBM Business Partner.

LinguaSys' multilingual technology is used on enterprise servers and consumer smartphones. [15] [16]

LinguaSys has developed an app TGPhoto which allows the user to snap a photo of some text and show a translation to one of fifty languages. [17] [18] The software works on Android, and Blackberry smartphones. [19]

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References

  1. Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud Gains Next-Gen Social Analytics
  2. Mobile Forensics Goes Multilingual As Micro Systemation Taps LinguaSys Translation Technology
  3. South Florida workers-turned-entrepreneurs are creating jobs - Sun Sentinel
  4. Angel investors are out there; you just need to know where to look | HeraldTribune.com
  5. Mark Cuban Leads $1 Million Dollar Round For Florida Startup LinguaSys | Serious Startups Archived 2014-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2013-07-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Backs Language Specialist LinguaSys
  8. LinguaSys Launches “GlobalNLP” Natural Language Processing API Portal for Developers
  9. LinguaSys Launches Natural Language User Interface Server
  10. Aspect Software Announces Acquisition of the Technology Assets of LinguaSys, a Leading Provider of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Interactive Text Response (ITR) Technology
  11. "LinguaSys' tech tools acquired by cloud service company Aspect Software". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  12. Industry Chatter: Brian Garr, LinguaSys - FederalNewsRadio.com
  13. "New Natural Language Processing API Portal" Dr. Dodds. by Adrian Bridgwater, October 22, 2014
  14. Amy Neustein; Judith A. Markowitz (22 June 2013). Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 55–. ISBN   978-1-4614-6934-6.
  15. MultiLingual: LinguaSys teams with Salesforce.com @multilingualMag
  16. Salesforce.com adds LinguaSys to social insights ecosystem | South Florida Sunrise
  17. App allows you to point, shoot & translate | New York Post
  18. TGPhoto app translates signs in foreign languages
  19. "TGPhoto app translates signs in foreign languages". by Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY. 2010-12-08