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From Artificial Intelligence to Human Languages

Simple Shift is an IT company dedicated to language engineering. We use artificial intelligence to detect patterns within human languages for various applications, including machine translation and computer-assisted translation, automated classification, e-discovery, web mining, etc.

CROSS-LANGUAGE SEARCH

Web Mining

The most critical information for your business might not be in English anymore. Increasingly, people have to search in more than one language to get more relevant results. mySearch in a cross-language search tool: On the basis of a query in one language (for exemple English), it extends the query to many other languages (like Chinese, Russian,Arabic, etc.), sorts out the most relevant results and translates them back into the original query language.

News

Creation of an Open Source Foundation in Switzerland

In collaboration with the Free IT Foundation, Simple Shift is setting up a Foundation to manage and maintain the myMT and myCat applications, to develop them into a fully-fledged suite of Translation Environment Tools (TEnT), and to train IT Service companies from various countries in order to enable them to install and maintain those tools locally. The complete suite of tools will be distributed under Open Source licenses.

Book Chapter on Automated Patent Classification

A book entitled "Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval" was published by Springer in May 2011. This book includes a chapter on Automated Classification (with a focus on patent classification) which was written by Dr. Jacques Guyot and Karim Benzineb.

You can click on the book below to get to the related web page on Springer's web site.

MACHINE TRANSLATION

Computer Blades

Machine Translation (MT) is a translation entirely performed by a computer. It is fast and cheap, but it needs proof-reading, except if it is used for applications such as e-discovery and web mining.

COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRANSLATION

Translator with CAT System

Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) is translation perforrmed by human translators with the support of various tools: bi-text aligners, quotation detectors, translation memories, terminological management systems, etc.

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION

Neural Network

Automated Classification is the process of having a computer sort out large volumes of electronic documents according to a given classification which may include thousands of categories. When there are too many documents to classify them manually (e.g. in the case of patent classification or during an archiving process), a smarter solution is to train an artificial intelligence system to do the job.