LinguaSys

LinguaSys, Inc. is a company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. LinguaSys provides multilingual translation software and services to data analysis companies and social media[1] to financial, banking, hospitality, Customer Relations Management, technology, forensics[2] and telecommunications blue chip enterprises, and the government and military.

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.

CEO Brian Garr was formerly CTO of Globalink from 1995–1998 and is a recipient of the Smithsonian Institute's “Heroes in Technology” award for his work in Machine Translation.

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

Also in 2012, LinguaSys partnered with Salesforce.com, adding translation ability to the company's social marketing services.

Products and services

LinguaSys uses interlingual natural language processing software to provide multilingual text, sentiment, relevance and conceptual understanding and analysis.[8][9] LinguaSys trademarked its proprietary interlingual technology called Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine.[10] 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.[11][12]

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.[13][14] The software works on Android, and Blackberry smartphones.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud Gains Next-Gen Social Analytics
  2. ↑ Wellington firm replaces Miami Tower lights - Sun Sentinel
  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
  6. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2013/05/03/billionaire-mark-cuban-among-investors.htmlong-investors.html
  7. ↑ Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Backs Language Specialist LinguaSys
  8. ↑ Industry Chatter: Brian Garr, LinguaSys - FederalNewsRadio.com
  9. ↑ "New Natural Language Processing API Portal" Dr. Dodds. by Adrian Bridgwater, October 22, 2014
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ MultiLingual: LinguaSys teams with Salesforce.com @multilingualMag
  12. ↑ Salesforce.com adds LinguaSys to social insights ecosystem | South Florida Sunrise
  13. ↑ App allows you to point, shoot & translate | New York Post
  14. ↑ TGPhoto app translates signs in foreign languages
  15. ↑ "TGPhoto app translates signs in foreign languages". by Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY. 2010-12-08

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