As publisher of the most authoritative reference works in the English language, Encyclopędia Britannica is fully aware of both the challenges and the opportunities that are in store for technology that helps cross language barriers.

Encyclopędia Britannica's Natural Language Technology division, Britannica NLT, is dedicated to creating technologies that enable users across the world to understand information in English, as well as make it possible for English speakers to access, understand, search and process information in other languages.

Britannica NLT's products and solutions are especially geared towards languages that, unlike English, exhibit complex morphology. Morphology, or word-structure, has a dramatic effect on search, information extraction and translation. Britannica NLT's products and solutions are recognized as the technological leader in providing analysis tools for complex languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Other language for which support is being developed using Britannica NLT's language analysis platform are Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Farsi, and Japanese.

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