TEXTEC SOFTWARE

specializes in natural language processing (NLP). Main product is the linguistic engine EXTRAKT which serves as an add-on to any kind of search system. Most of the European languages including German are covered.

With the help of EXTRAKT monolingual or multilingual (cross-lingual) search systems can be created.

EXTRAKT is an integrated system of linguistic and statistical functions for

• the identification of basic forms (Lemmatisation),

• the splitting of compound words (German and Dutch),

• the generation of inflexed forms (Generation),

• the access to synonyms, derivated words and thesauri,
• the translation of terms into other languages,

• the phonetic transformation of (proper) names or plain words for a fuzzy search (TRAPHO),

• the generation of syntactical correct word groups (phrasal generation),

• the identification of all variants of a stem of a given word (linguistic stemming),

• identification of sentence borders, word groups and (Named Entity Extraction ).

EXTRAKT in fact is a complete linguistic platform and is working in a multitude of different applications of our partners.



Complementary to the linguistic engine EXTRAKT is the BESTWORD server for a fault tolerant search.
BESTWORD is able to identify via a combined phonetic/graphemic algorithm to find similar relevant alternatives to a given word - out of millions of entries in a couple of milli-seconds.