Category Archives: Language Packs

This category contains the posts in MeaningCloud’s blog related to our language packs.

الصيحة! Text Analytics in Arabic

At MeaningCloud we aim to provide the most advanced text analytics product with the broadest language coverage in the market. That’s why before we finished 2019 we worked on launching several new language packs to increase the coverage given by our standard pack — English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan — and our Nordic pack — Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.

The third pack we launched is the Arabic pack. Arabic, the fifth most spoken language in the world, is the official language in twenty countries and co-official in six others. It is the first language of 280 million speakers, and the second language of another 250 million. Moreover, for religious reasons, several million Muslims living in other countries have knowledge of Arabic.

Its most peculiar characteristic is that it uses its own writing system, from right to left, joining the letters together. In this way, each letter can have up to four forms. It is also interesting that, despite the fact that they were introduced in the 1920s, there are no capital letters in Arabic. Since sometimes common names can be confused with proper names, the latter are usually enclosed in parentheses or quotes.

MeaningCloud now provides coverage for Arabic for the following functionality:

Arabic

This coverage will be extended through the successive product releases depending on the market demand. Find detailed information on our new language coverage page.

So, what are these text analytics tasks and what are they used for?
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Ура! Text Analytics in Russian

At MeaningCloud we aim to provide the most advanced text analytics product with the broadest language coverage in the market. That’s why before we finished 2019 we worked on launching several new language packs to increase the coverage given by our standard pack — English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan — and our Nordic pack — Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.

The second pack we launched is the Russian pack. Russian is the official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It was the de facto language in the Soviet Union, so its use it’s also common in the Baltic States, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It’s the most common of the Slavic languages with almost 144 million speakers.

Russian is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, and although transliteration into the Latin alphabet has been common due to the technical restrictions and to the unavailability of Cyrillic keyboards abroad, it’s used less and less thanks to the Unicode extension that incorporates the Russian alphabet and the many free programs that leverage it.

MeaningCloud now provides coverage for Russian for the following functionality:

Russian pack

This coverage will be extended through the successive product releases depending on the market demand. Find detailed information on our new language coverage page.

So, what are these text analytics tasks and what are they used for?
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好棒! Text Analytics in Chinese

At MeaningCloud we aim to provide the most advanced text analytics product with the broadest language coverage in the market. That’s why before we finish 2019 we have worked on launching several new language packs to increase the coverage given by our standard pack — English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan — and our Nordic pack — Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.

The first pack we are launching is the Chinese pack. Chinese, the official language of the People’s Republic of China. It’s the language with the most native speakers, almost a 16% of the global population.

Chinese (in all its varieties) is a group of languages based on ideograms, traditionally arranged in vertical columns, read from top to bottom down a column and right to left across columns. The variety covered by MeaningCloud is simplified Chinese.

MeaningCloud now provides coverage for Chinese for the following functionality:

Chinese pack

This coverage will be extended through the successive product releases depending on the market demand. Find detailed information on our new language coverage page.

So, what are these text analytics tasks and what are they used for?
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MeaningCloud Release: Sentiment + Nordic Pack

Not long ago we published the first of our Language Packs: the Nordic pack, which includes several text analytics tasks in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.

Among the text analytics tasks supported, there’s one that was missed by many of you: Sentiment Analysis API. Well, no more!

We are happy to announce that from now on you can also analyze sentiment in the four languages included in the Nordic pack. And what’s more, for those of you that are already subscribed to the pack, it has been automatically included and so you can start using it right away without any change in pricing.

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For those of you that are not subscribed to the Nordic pack, remember that you can test all our packs full functionality by requesting a 30 day period trial. It’s super easy!

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Hej, hallå, hallo, hei! MeaningCloud supports the Nordic languages

Have you ever needed to detect entities in Danish texts or to classify documents in Swedish?

At MeaningCloud we aim to provide the most advanced text analytics product with the broadest language coverage in the market. That’s why we have just launched a Language Pack that adds to our traditional languages -English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan- coverage for the Nordic languages. Continue reading