LinguaSys
LinguaSys was a U.S.-based language-technology company that developed multilingual natural-language processing software and services for enterprise and government customers.
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Overview
LinguaSys, Inc. was a language-technology company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, with a founding team distributed across the United States, Australia, and Germany. Established in 2010, the company focused on multilingual human-language software and services for organizations that needed to process, interpret, classify, translate, or analyze text across multiple languages. Its target customers included financial and banking institutions, hospitality businesses, customer-relations and marketing organizations, technology companies, telecommunications providers, forensic users, and government and military agencies. The company’s core technical proposition was an interlingual natural-language-processing architecture. Rather than treating every language pair as a separate translation problem, LinguaSys described its technology as a shared linguistic layer capable of supporting multilingual text understanding and analysis. The company trademarked this proprietary technology as the Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine. Applications built around the platform supported multilingual text analysis, sentiment analysis, relevance assessment, conceptual understanding, and related language-processing tasks. Solutions could be customized for individual clients and deployed either as software-as-a-service or behind a customer’s firewall. LinguaSys was co-founded by chief executive Brian Garr, chief technology officer Vadim Berman, and vice president of development and architecture Can Unal. Garr had previously served as chief technology officer of Globalink from 1995 to 1998 and was recognized by the Smithsonian Institution with a Heroes in Technology award for work in machine translation. Berman was based in Melbourne, Australia, while Unal was based in Darmstadt, Germany, reflecting the company’s international technical organization from its beginning. The company developed partnerships and integrations intended to move its technology beyond specialized translation software. In 2012, LinguaSys partnered with Salesforce.com to add multilingual text-analytics capabilities to Salesforce’s social-marketing services. The same year, investor Mark Cuban began investing in the company. In 2014, LinguaSys made its technology available through a public-cloud model, broadening access beyond conventional enterprise-server deployments. In 2015, it added NLUI Server to the public-cloud product set. NLUI Server was designed to help developers build Siri-like natural-language applications more quickly and in multiple languages. LinguaSys also worked on consumer-facing language tools. Its TGPhoto application allowed users to photograph text with a smartphone and receive a translation in one of as many as fifty languages. The application supported Android and BlackBerry devices. More broadly, LinguaSys stated that its multilingual technology could operate on enterprise servers as well as consumer smartphones. The company was also identified as an IBM Business Partner. In August 2015, Aspect Software acquired LinguaSys. The acquisition marked the end of LinguaSys as an independent company and placed its multilingual natural-language capabilities within Aspect’s broader customer-engagement and enterprise-software business. Publicly available reference material does not establish a later standalone LinguaSys operating structure, current website, financial results, or a continuing consumer brand presence.
History
LinguaSys was founded in 2010 as a multilingual language-technology company with headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida. Its co-founders were Brian Garr, who became chief executive, Vadim Berman, who served as chief technology officer, and Can Unal, who led development and architecture. The founders were located in the United States, Australia, and Germany, giving the company an international technical profile from its earliest stage. The company’s business centered on interlingual natural-language processing. LinguaSys developed a proprietary technology called the Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine and used it as the basis for multilingual translation, text understanding, sentiment analysis, relevance analysis, and conceptual interpretation. Its software was aimed primarily at enterprise and institutional customers rather than mass-market consumers. Listed application areas included finance, banking, hospitality, customer relationship management, technology, telecommunications, forensics, and government and military work. LinguaSys offered customized deployments through software-as-a-service and behind-the-firewall implementations. It also described its technology as usable on enterprise servers and consumer smartphones. The company’s international and enterprise orientation was reinforced by its IBM Business Partner status. Brian Garr brought prior machine-translation experience from his tenure as chief technology officer of Globalink between 1995 and 1998 and had received a Smithsonian Institution Heroes in Technology award for work in machine translation. In 2012, LinguaSys formed a partnership with Salesforce.com. The arrangement brought multilingual text analytics into Salesforce’s social-marketing services, demonstrating an effort to embed LinguaSys capabilities in a larger customer-relationship and marketing platform. That year, Mark Cuban also began investing in the company. The available reference material does not specify the amount, structure, or later terms of that investment. LinguaSys shifted toward cloud delivery in 2014, when it made its technology available through a public cloud. In 2015, the company expanded that offering with NLUI Server, a product intended to let developers create Siri-like natural-language applications rapidly and across a range of languages. Alongside its enterprise products, LinguaSys developed TGPhoto, a mobile application that translated photographed text into one of up to fifty languages and supported Android and BlackBerry smartphones. In August 2015, Aspect Software acquired LinguaSys. The transaction placed LinguaSys’s language capabilities within Aspect’s enterprise customer-engagement software business. Following the acquisition, publicly available information does not document LinguaSys as an independent operating company with a separate current website or independently reported financial performance. The acquisition is therefore the final clearly documented milestone in the standalone company’s history.
- 2015
NLUI Server introduced
[1]The company adds NLUI Server to its public-cloud product offerings for multilingual natural-language application development.
- 2015
Acquisition by Aspect Software
[1]Aspect Software acquires LinguaSys in August, ending the company’s documented period as an independent business.
- 2014
Public-cloud availability
[1]LinguaSys makes its multilingual language technology available through a public-cloud delivery model.
- 2012
Salesforce partnership and outside investment
[1]LinguaSys partners with Salesforce.com on multilingual text analytics, while Mark Cuban begins investing in the company.
- 2010
LinguaSys is founded
[1]Brian Garr, Vadim Berman, and Can Unal co-found LinguaSys, with the company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
Products and positioning
A multilingual enterprise language-technology provider positioned around interlingual natural-language processing, machine translation, text analytics, and language understanding across cloud, on-premises, server, and mobile environments.
Interlingual natural-language processing platform
Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine
The Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine was LinguaSys’s proprietary interlingual language-processing technology. It supported the company’s multilingual capabilities in translation, text analysis, sentiment assessment, relevance determination, and conceptual understanding. LinguaSys used the platform in customized enterprise solutions delivered through software-as-a-service and behind-the-firewall deployments.
Natural-language application development software · 2015
NLUI Server
NLUI Server was added to LinguaSys’s public-cloud offerings in 2015. It was designed to help developers build Siri-like natural-language applications more quickly and to support application development across multiple languages. The product extended LinguaSys’s focus from translation and analysis toward interactive language interfaces.
Mobile translation application
TGPhoto
TGPhoto was a smartphone application that allowed a user to photograph written text and obtain a translation. LinguaSys described it as supporting translation into as many as fifty languages. The application was available for Android and BlackBerry smartphones and represented the company’s consumer-facing use of its multilingual processing technology.
Brand decisions
2015
Launch of NLUI ServerProduct launchBackground
LinguaSys sought to extend its multilingual technology into interactive natural-language applications.
Action taken
It added NLUI Server to its public-cloud offerings to support rapid development of Siri-like applications in multiple languages.
Aftermath
The product was introduced during the same year that Aspect Software acquired LinguaSys.
2015
Acquisition by Aspect SoftwareM&ABackground
LinguaSys had developed multilingual natural-language processing capabilities for enterprise, government, and mobile applications.
Action taken
Aspect Software acquired LinguaSys in August 2015.
Aftermath
LinguaSys ceased to be documented as an independent company, with its technology becoming part of Aspect Software’s broader business.
2014
Move toward public-cloud deliveryStrategyBackground
LinguaSys had primarily supplied customized multilingual language solutions for enterprise and institutional users through hosted and behind-the-firewall implementations.
Action taken
The company made its technology available through a public cloud, widening the potential delivery model for its language-processing capabilities.
Aftermath
The cloud direction was followed in 2015 by the addition of NLUI Server to the public-cloud product portfolio.
Recent events
- 2015
LinguaSys adds NLUI Server to its cloud offerings[1]
Product launch
LinguaSys added NLUI Server, a tool intended to accelerate the creation of Siri-like natural-language applications in multiple languages.
- 2015
Aspect Software acquires LinguaSys[1]
M&A
Aspect Software acquired LinguaSys in August 2015, ending LinguaSys’s independent corporate operation.
- 2014
LinguaSys makes its technology available through a public cloud[1]
Product launch
The company expanded its delivery model by making its multilingual language technology available in a public-cloud environment.
- 2012
LinguaSys partners with Salesforce.com on multilingual text analytics[1]
Other
LinguaSys partnered with Salesforce.com to provide multilingual text-analytics capabilities for Salesforce social-marketing services.
- 2012
Mark Cuban begins investing in LinguaSys[1]
Other
Mark Cuban began investing in LinguaSys, adding a prominent outside investor to the company’s development during its enterprise-language expansion.
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