Teragram Integrates Linguistic Tools with Apache Lucene Open Source Search Engine

Enhances Basic Search Function of Lucene; Incorporates Enterprise
Search Functionality
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Teragram, a SAS company and the leading provider of multilingual
natural language processing technologies, announced today that it has
integrated its linguistic suite into the Apache Lucene open source
search platform. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text
search engine library which powers sites such as Wikipedia, CNET
Reviews and Eventful.com. The integration enables Lucene users to add
taxonomies and faceted search to their web sites, as well as to
correct the spelling of queries and search in multiple languages.
Using Teragram's solutions, enterprises deploying Lucene can provide
site searchers with a functionality that parallels popular enterprise
search platforms on the market today.

Teragram's full suite of products, including TK240 taxonomy
management, automatic categorization and automatic metadata generation
enhance Lucene's basic search function. As a result, adopters of the
open source search engine (for embedded search on both internal and
external-facing sites) can provide consumers with a more comprehensive
experience that includes a searchable index. The faceted index is
built using Teragram's taxonomy tools that classify words into
relevant topics and sub-topics.

Teragram's powerful multilingual natural language processing tools
provide linguistic modules such as morphological stemming, spelling
correction, parts-of-speech tagging, related queries and more.
Teragram also offers dictionaries in a variety of Eastern and Western
European, Asian and Middle Eastern languages.

"Lucene is expanding its user base to high-profile corporate and
consumer-facing websites around the world, and quickly becoming the
open source alternative to traditional enterprise search," said Dr.
Yves Schabes, president and co-founder of Teragram. "We're happy to
provide Lucene users with language processing enhancements so they can
meet the high-performance standards of traditional enterprise search
engines, while still enjoying the freedom of the open source
experience."

ABOUT TERAGRAM

Teragram, a SAS company, is the market leader in mobile and
multilingual natural language processing technologies that use the
meaning of text to distill relevant information from vast amounts of
data. Founded in 1997 by innovators in the field of computational
linguistics, Teragram alone offers the speed, accuracy and global
language support that customers and partners demand to retrieve and
organize growing volumes of digital information. Teragram helps
customers perform more efficient searches and better organize
information in more than 30 languages, enabling them to reach new
markets and make better decisions. Teragram serves customers across
the publishing, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and financial
industries, including Ariba, Ask.com, Associated Press, CNN, Factiva,
EBSCO Publishing, Ebay, FAST Search & Transfer, Forbes.com, InfoSpace,
NYTimes Digital, OneSource, Reed Business Information, Ricoh, Sony,
Verity, WashingtonPost.com, Wolters Kluwer, the World Bank and Yahoo!.
For more information, please contact 1-617-576-6800 or visit
http://www.teragram.com/info.

ABOUT SAS

SAS is the leader in business intelligence and analytical software
and services. Customers at more than 44,000 sites use SAS software to
improve performance through insight from data, resulting in faster,
more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with
customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations;
research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS
offers leading data integration, storage, analytics and business
intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise
intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers
around the world THE POWER TO KNOW(R).

Schwartz Communications
Erica Salamida and Brian Kramer, 781-684-0770
teragram@schwartz-pr.com

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