Having just returned from a great holiday in the Alps, we received the delightful news that we’ve been commissioned by a large client from the financial sector with the development of a technical proof of concept in an optical-character-recognition context. OCR describes the process of converting image information into textual data. The objective of this development effort is to employ machine learning and artifical intelligence in the automated recognition of document types and the extraction of business-relevant information from scanned documents.

We are thrilled to report that the operator of an important European product portal has commissioned us to generate a large number of SEO-optimised product texts on a regular basis. Our solution architecture includes interfacing TextWriter, LangTecs natural language generation (NLG) solution, to external data sources.

It was about time: We are finally retiring our faithful development server. At the time of writing, it is being replaced by a real powerhouse with multiple high-speed processor cores, a huge working memory and a Raid-5 array of superfast-access hard drives. We are curious to see how long it will take until we outgrow this one, too …

We are super-happy to welcome Jason Luc on our team. Jason is our new software development intern. He studies software system development and is currently interning with us in the context of his mandatory Bachelor course internship.

In 2017, LangTec has made yet another a contribution – beyond daily business. We have supported important aid organisations financially on a regular basis. In 2017, our ongoing support went to Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders. Thanks to these organisations for their great work!

It was a long, exciting and super interesting year 2017 for LangTec. We keep on growing … slowly, but very steadily. Our projects continually  increase in volume, scope and complexity. For this reason, both our revenue and team size have doubled in the past year. Well, if this isn’t a really good reason to party … !

We are extending a very warm welcome to Carina Rawein as a new team member here at LangTec. Carina is an experienced computational linguist with applied experience in the areas of corpus linguistics and deep learning in the context of distributional lexical properties. We are delighted to have Carina on bord with us 🙂

Objective of the newly formed ZIM Network Morpheus is to fund small and medium businesses (SMB) in their coorperation with large enterprises and public research institutions in innovative projects. The network focuses on the application of speech, text and data analytics in medicine, medical technology and life sciences. The consortium comprises a total of 23 companies: German SMBs, public research institutions such as the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology as well as the two pharmaceutical corporations AbbVie and Boehringer Ingelheim.

We are happy to report yet another project win to apply our extensive expertise in the semantic analysis of e-commerce product data. Our client, operator of one of the largest product comparison platforms on the German market, has commissioned us with the refinement of their analytics algorithms for product data, placing particular emphasis on their application in non-European target markets.

After an extensive pre-screening process LangTec has been commissioned to contribute to a large-scale development effort with one of the leading communication infrastructure providers in Germany. The objective of the developement effort scoped over several years is to automate internal data flows and to implement complex content analytics on the collected data.