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Languages |
Industries Butler Hill has helped clients quickly and competitively launch international products in a wide range of specialized fields by working on the issues at the intersection of language and technology. These include: Search (horizontal and vertical, consumer and enterprise) Speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies Text analytics / Sentiment analysis Natural language processing Handwriting recognition Predictive text input Emerging natural input technologies Machine translation |
Services Resourcing Specialized resources for custom linguistic consulting and services Resource pools of language specialists in over 40 countries Large-scale recruiting and training of resources for rapid market expansion On-demand staffing to respond to changing scope or timelines at short notice Search Engine Result Ranking Query result ranking for relevancy in the local market General search but also domain specific search Corpus Collection Named entities like addresses, artist names, etc. Parallel corpora, e.g. for machine translation Data Annotation Sentiment tagging for text analytics Query classification, e.g. for user intent Part of speech tagging Dictionary Development, Supplementation and Evaluation Frequency lists Offensive word lists Stop word lists Stemming rules Lexical coverage evaluation |
Language Model Specifications Character sets Wordbreaking and morphology rules Named entity formats Domain, market or region-specific descriptions Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Technologies Phonetic feature set creation and phoneme mapping Phonetic transcription creation, evaluation and correction Speech synthesis evaluation Quality Evaluations and Testing of Linguistic Components Test plan development and implementation Test data collection and verification Quality benchmarking Acceptance testing of third-party deliverables Directed and undirected user testing Competitive analyses Program Management, Project Management, and Operations Project planning and execution Program development and oversight Global scale resource planning and workforce management Workflow and process improvements Creation of documentation, guidelines, and training materials Infrastructure for secure data transfer and management |