More than three decades ago –i.e. 1984- Info Arab had started its stream of Arabic linguistic
products with a product that was a break through at that time.
Arabisk
as one of the first MS-DOS Arabization utilities had so many
unique features and achieved an excellent market perception and user satisfaction.
since then, Info Arab's breakthroughs have started…
Over a thousand person months of dedicated efforts, distributed along the last 35
years, in some periods with a staff of professionals of 15 persons and more, Info
Arab succeeded in providing the market with a lot of RELIABLE Arabic linguistic
components. The real value of these components is not limited to being the first
of their kinds –e.g. the first ever Arabic spelling checker, the first ever Arabic
grammar checker …etc- but in addition to these lies a remarkable world class quality
and several unique features summarized as follows…
Platform independence… All the above technologies
are truly platform independent. Whether the target operating system is 32 or 64
bits, MS-Windows (9x, NT, 2000 or XP. Vista, Windows 7), MAC OS (86K, PPC, and MOC
OSX), UNIX, Linux, or even proprietary OS (as those of the hand held dictionaries
based on micro-computer chips or micro-controllers), our technologies are there
ready to run.
Most Efficient… since all of our technology modules
are to be linked with other applications, extreme care had been taken to their required
computer resources –e.g. required RAM, storage ..etc, without forgetting their performance
–e.g. accuracy, speed ..etc.
Very well tested… with over 500 thousand copies
of Info Arab ‘s ready made products containing these technologies –e.g. Abgad Hawaz,
Cibawee, Kalemat, IEAD, ARABISK …etc- and many tens of millions of licensees ‘s products –e.g.
Word Perfect, Corel draw, Novel group wise, Adobe Indesign, Caere OmniPage, Al-Nasher
Al-Maktabi, Al-Sohafi, Alef, Al-Ma’ajem …etc- there is no doubt that these technologies
enjoy passing the hardest test ever any product may have.
Covering all the Arabic languages special features
including different schools of writing.
Scalable structure… taking into consideration
the proper building blocks of any language and those specific to the Arabic language.
Modularity… each technology is totally integrated
with others such that the licensee may choose whatever suits his needs and integrate
them within their application seamlessly.
Ease of integration
… through the wealth of experience and large number of licensees,
Info Arab’ s accumulated experience has enabled it to design a worlds class SDK
–Software Development Kit- and API ‘s –Application Programs Interface- that matches
the world leaders standards and requirements.
The Word List… As a fundamental stone and building
block of any linguistic component, Info Arab is proud that it had spent enormous
amounts of efforts, time and money in gathering, entering, revising, and sorting
one of the richest electronic Arabic word lists (Lexicon). This moment of time,
Info Arab ‘s word list contains 7 million Arabic word. Info Arab had also bought
a rich English word list and has the full rights over it.
Morphological Analyzer… Info Arab also invested
about three years of research and development on its Arabic Morphological Analyzer
launched in 1991 as the first of its kind. This morphological analyzer is another
very important corner stone for any Arabic computational linguistic development.
In more simple words, it is the basic intelligent kernel over which we can build
so many outer smart shells. In addition, this morphological engine could be of use
alone in so many Arabic text search engines.
Arabic Spell Checker… As the first comer of Info
Arab ‘s linguistic saga and currently the best selling component, Info Arab spares
no time nor effort in continuously enriching it with a greater word list, optimizing
performance, and enhancements. There is no doubt that this component represents
the real cash cow of the various technologies.
Dictionaries… Info Arab also has several versions
of Arabic/English, English/Arabic dictionaries. From an entry level dictionary
with something like 200 thousand entries, up to a high end with over 600 thousand
entries –listed in over 900 A4 pages for each language in two columns with font
size point 9. These dictionaries are currently on the market, and have been for
10 years, either on computer software packages –e.g. Abgad Hawaz dictionary, Al-Kalemat,
IEAD- or within pocket size hand held dictionaries such as Al-Ma’ajem, Al-Mesbah
and others.
Diactratizer… As much as the Arabic language is
extremely powerful in so many aspects related to its mathematical structure and
vocabulary, as much as it suffers from its modern writing rules. Any body who is
familiar with the Arabic language can tell about the possible ambiguities that
a reader may face while reading a normal piece of Arabic text just because of the
lack of diacratization (Ftha, Dama, Kasra …etc). For this, we have the automatic
solution. We can identify and direct the user in proper diacratization of an Arabic
word. The open horizons of this technology are limitless. Just think about an Arabic
reliable text to speech (e.g. for blind aide), an automated voice mail phone system
(e.g. for banks or telecommunication companies), plus other tens of top tech applications.
The Arabic Grammar Checker… In 1993, Info Arab
launched the first ever Arabic Grammar Checker as its product named Cibawee. through
which any computer user may check his/her text for the proper usage of Arabic grammar
rules. This product is also another very basic corner stone of any NLP –Natural
Language Processing- development.
Thesaurus… It has always been a good habit that
somebody checks a thesaurus from some time to another for a certain word 's synonym
or antonym. This usually results in more enriched writing. For a computer based
linguistic aid, a powerful Arabic/Arabic, English/English thesaurus exists among
Info Arab linguistic technologies and has been in the market since 1995. The usage
of such a thesaurus is not only limited to linguistic aid, but it extends to so
many other applications including powerful text search engines enabling users to
search for the meaning of a certain word rather than the word itself and its derivatives,
as it is with the morphological analyzer.