2. Language Management Central
● LS LMC is a centralised language management
solution
● All of Lingsoft's and many third-party language
solutions are offered through this platform
○ Spell checking, grammar checking, stylistic checking
○ Hyphenation
○ Inflective synonym lookup
○ Morphological and dependency analysis
○ Terminology management and look-up
○ Translations
○ Speech recognition and synthesis
● New services are created and expanded
○ New tools can be added to the platform
● Flexible and robust
3. Language Management Central
● Software as a Service model (SaaS)
● Each service exposes an interface for integration
○ REST/JSON
○ WebServices
● .Net server solution
● Successful integration in a variety of settings
○ Desktop publishing
○ Search engines
○ Online stores
○ Terminology management solutions
○ Natural language processing solutions
○ Translation services
○ Subtitling services
4. Proofing Service in LMC
● Several proofreading services available
○ Spell checking
○ Grammar checking
○ Stylistic checking
○ Hyphenation
● Available languages
○ Finnish
○ Swedish
○ Norwegian Bokmål
○ Norwegian Nynorsk
○ Danish
○ German
○ English (spelling)
● Lingsoft proofing has previously successfully been integrated as the
standard checkers for eg. Microsoft Word
5. Proofing Service in LMC
● Domain-specific spell and style checkers
○ Specialised checkers optimised for specific language domains
○ Contains the standard language and additional specialised vocabulary
and grammar rules
○ Examples
■ Finnish medical
■ Finnish EU language
■ Finnish IT
■ Swedish Finlandisms
● Custom vocabulary and checker customisation
○ Lingsoft can also create checkers containing your vocabulary
7. Morphology Service in LMC
● Offers morphological and sentence analysis
○ Analyse words and return dictionary forms
■ crucial for processing of inflecting languages
■ example from English: left returns left (adverb), left
(adjective) and leave (verb)
■ example from Finnish: kädessäni 'in my hand' finds käsi
'hand'
○ If a word returns multiple dictionary forms, sentence
disambiguation can identify the desired baseform based on
sentence structure
■ example, English: left in he left for school will return leave
○ Generate word forms
■ example from Finnish: requesting the inessive singular form
with possessive suffix of käsi 'hand' returns kädessäni
■ example from English: requesting past participle of leave
returns left
8. Morphology Service in LMC
● Available languages
○ Finnish
○ Swedish
○ Norwegian Bokmål
○ Norwegian Nynorsk
○ Danish
○ German
○ English
○ Russian
○ Swahili
● Applications include
○ search systems
○ document indexing
○ language learning
○ supporting tasks for other language processing
9. Search Systems and LMC
● Search expansion using Morphology Service
○ When search for a word or term, it is possible to automatically
also search for inflected forms of the word
○ Can also find compound words
■ For example, search for käsi 'hand' in Finnish can find
käsikirja 'handbook/manual'
○ Greatly simplifies search queries and expand the results pool
■ for example Finnish, where a single word may have
thousands of different forms
● Search correction using Proofing Service
○ If a user misspells a search term, it is possible to offer "Did
you mean?" functionality by offering suggestions from the
proofing service
10. Search Systems and LMC
Solution – custom library for Lucene programming
Lingsoft Custom Analyzer for Lucene
● A Java library for Lucene
● Calls LS LMC (address configured from settings)
● Package contains a Java library with a settings file and some example codes
(open source)
● A customer would program their own solution on top of this Custom analyzer
● Lingsoft provides LS LMC services and consulting for searching and indexing
11. Terminology Management
and LMC
● LS LMC offers a fully fledged terminology
management system
○ Administration and editing of customer terms and
customer termbases
■ The entire term management workflow is supported
○ Term search and proposals
○ Multilingual termbases supported
○ Brand language management
■ Accepted and rejected terms
○ Several tools supported
■ TermWeb, Trados Multiterm...
■ More can be added
■ Standard format, TBX
13. Terminology Management
and LMC
● Intelligent Term Search
○ Intelligent term search when using Lingsoft's language tools
(search expansion)
○ Search targets
○ custom termbase
○ static termbase (for example MOT-dictionaries)
○ public terminologies (f.ex. WordNet)
○ Lingsoft language tools functioning as terminologies (for
example synonym dictionaries)
● Term Highlighting
○ Recognizes terms from written text by highlighting
○ Can use accepted/rejected -division
○ Interface returns positional and other term-related information
○ Possibility to select target termbases
14. Terminology Management
and LMC
● Term Suggestion
○ If the term is unrecognized, the customer has the possibility to
propose it
○ Possibility to
■ select target termbase for the suggestion
■ add basic information about the suggestion
○ Terminology admin will see the suggestions (unprocessed terms)
○ If the administrator approves the term, LS LMC will publish it in
use through the platform
● Other language tools
○ LMC can utilize termbases for other language tools
○ Examples
■ Accepted/Rejected terms can be brought as a part of
proofreader, so they will be used with the Proofing Interface
also (style info/errors)
■ Key terminology can be utilized when creating search engine
index
■ Possibility to utilize terminologies for creating totally
customized spellchecker
16. LS LMC
● Full API description and trial accounts available on
request
● For more information, contact us at info@lingsoft.fi
● Visit us at www.lingsoft.fi
● Follow us at @Lingsoft
