Basis Technology Releases
the Arabic Desktop Suite

–Easy-to-use desktop applications automate work of translators and analysts–

Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 19, 2007 – Basis Technology Corp. (www.basistech.com) today announced the release of its Arabic Desktop Suite, a trio of productivity applications for Microsoft Windows. This suite enables translators, report writers, and intelligence analysts to rapidly and accurately translate foreign names from Arabic and Farsi (Persian) into the Latin alphabet, in conformance with mandated government standards. It also includes applications for locating Middle Eastern place names against maps, and for typing Arabic with an ordinary English keyboard.

“The Arabic Desktop Suite assumes the tedious and error-prone work of translating foreign names, greatly boosting the productivity of scarce translators,” Basis Technology CEO Carl Hoffman said. “One beta user was able to complete a job estimated to take 3,000 man-hours in only five hours with the help of our product.”

Transliteration Assistant

This Microsoft Office plug-in standardizes names of people, places, and organizations from Arabic or Farsi (Persian) into any of several official transliteration standards. Consistent spellings are essential to correlating data across multiple sources. Yet translators struggle daily to determine the correct spelling of foreign names for inclusion into finished reports. This difficult task is greatly simplified through use of this application. Transliteration Assistant (XA) may also be used to automate the translation of large lists or directories of names, as might appear in phone books, catalogs, or databases.

GeoScope® Map Viewer

This interactive, map-viewing application employs sophisticated fuzzy search technology to locate geographic features on high-resolution maps. Users can enter queries in Arabic, Farsi (Persian), or “approximate English” to obtain a list of candidate locations.

Arabic Editor

This application enables Arabic speakers at all levels of ability to compose, edit, and analyze Arabic documents from an ordinary English keyboard. The user types in Arabic using English letters representing Arabic sounds. Within an hour, a new user can be competently typing Arabic using this application, a quicker study than learning the conventional Arabic keyboard layout.

“This suite is Basis Technology’s first foray into desktop applications, but for a good reason,” said Basis Technology’s CTO Benson Margulies. “Our users asked for our linguistic technology in a low-cost package which could be easily installed on a desktop or laptop environment. Here is our response.”

Arabic Desktop Suite is available immediately. System requirements: Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP or 2003. Contact Basis Technology for a free evaluation copy.

About Basis Technology Corp.

Basis Technology provides software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications. The company’s Rosette® Linguistics Platform is a suite of high-performance, robust, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Customers include industry leaders Autonomy, Convera, Endeca, FAST, Google, LL Bean, Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, Symantec, and Yahoo! Government contractors include BBN Technologies, CACI, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman and SAIC.

Company headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.

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