Partnership Enables ZyLAB to Provide Customers with Automated Translation Capabilities

London – May 15, 2006 –  ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership agreement with Language Weaver, Inc., a leading software company developing enterprise software for automated language translation.  ZyLAB will integrate Language Weaver’s statistical machine translation software (SMTS) with ZyIMAGE, its Information Access Platform, for customers requiring language translation capabilities alongside advanced data archiving and information management functionalities.

In many situations organizations receive information in multiple languages.  Through this collaboration with Language Weaver, documents stored in the ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform can now be translated into English from languages such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Persian, Romanian, German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Hindi and Somali. Try the Translation Demo here!

“We pride ourselves on developing and implementing best-in-class solutions that fulfill our clients’ unique information management requirements,” said Dr. Johannes Scholtes, president of ZyLAB North America LLC.  “Integrating Language Weaver software into ZyIMAGE enables us to provide the industry’s most innovative and comprehensive automated language translation solution available on the market today.  This solution fits perfectly into our wide portfolio of information access solutions.”

The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a robust foundation for the archiving and management of an organization’s information – from paper and electronic documents to e-mail and attachments.  The benefit to ZyLAB customers is that they can now extract text from documents, in any format, and automatically translate.  The original documents will be linked to the translations. Users can search both the original text as well as the translated text, making it easier to find data they are seeking.

“Our innovative statistical translation technology is a logical fit with ZyLAB’s information access platform.  Global companies, investigative organizations and government agencies that translate documents of all formats on a regular basis will benefit from easy access to the data and translations.  Our dependable and accurate solution complements theirs to offer their customers a full service information management resolution,” said Kirti Vashee, vice president of sales and marketing, Language Weaver.

About Language Weaver, Inc.
Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique approach to automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation algorithms that resulted from research and development at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its resulting product, statistical machine translation software (SMTS), provides the highest quality output to date in automated translation, using the best of traditional and new translation technologies. Language Weaver’s translation systems produce fluent, natural sounding translations and save customers money and time through automation of the translation process. The company has more than 50 patents pending on its SMTS technology worldwide. Language Weaver licenses a server version of its software, currently available for 18 language offerings. See the Website for specific offerings:  www.languageweaver.com

About ZyLAB
For 25 years, ZyLAB has provided commercial and government organisations around the world with award-winning information access solutions. The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a secure foundation for the long-term archiving, management and retrieval of information, from digitised paper documents, to electronic files, to e-mail and attachments, to multimedia. 

With over 7,500 installations and 350,000 users worldwide, ZyLAB has a wealth of experience and knowledge across a variety of industries and business applications. ZyIMAGE is a critical business tool of hundreds of banks, legal firms and insurance and financial services companies, including Coutts, Rabobank, Bank of Ireland, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Digby Brown and the forensic accounting departments of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. ZyIMAGE is also used by many UK public-sector organisations, such as the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Metropolitan Police, Serious Fraud Office and the University Hospital of Wales. Leading manufacturing and service companies which rely on ZyIMAGE include BMW, Moy Park, Radisson Edwardian Hotels, BBC, Shering-Plough, Haden Young and Balfour Beatty, to name just a few. For more information visit: www.zylab.co.uk