Friday, July 30, 2010
KCSL Inc.


Who is KCSL?

For over 25 years, since its founding in 1981, KCSL Inc. has prided itself on having an approach to development that first and foremost accounts for the needs of end users and corporations. It has developed and licensed software worldwide. Today KCSL technologies are the backbone for numerous electronic systems that are recognized for their quality, reliability, simplicity, and efficiency.

KCSL has created commercially successful and innovative solutions including international spell and grammar checkers, electronic references, multilingual search engines and translation tools. It has been instrumental in increasing productivity and improving the quality of written communication. Its ongoing breakthrough technologies and derivative products clearly demonstrate KCSL’s constant drive to remain well ahead of its competition.

Company Milestones

• For much of its history, KCSL has been a development company that licensed its technologies through third parties, who provided the sales and marketing efforts.

• Instrumental in the development of many innovative language and reference software products including The American Heritage® Dictionary, Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus, IntelliFinder® Reference Engine, International CorrectSpell®, and CorrectText® Grammar Correction System.

• Over 200 million computer users throughout the world depend on KCSL’s spell checking technology.

• Language and Reference software licensed to over 300 companies worldwide, including Microsoft, Corel, Inso, McClelland & Stewart, Hewlett Packard and Sharp.

• In 1994, KCSL developed its SmartSearch™ Technology, a new information retrieval technology that used natural language to achieve results that represented a significant advancement from previously available technologies.

• In 1994, the first commercial application of SmartSearch was released in McClelland & Stewart's The Canadian Encyclopedia on Diskette.

• From 1996 through 1999, KCSL's technology powered the multimedia CD-ROM versions of The Canadian Encyclopedia.

• In 1999, KCSL released X-Portal® Findware, an award winning end user CD-ROM search tool for the Internet.

• In 2001, KCSL completed the development of its UniFind™ Search Technology, an outgrowth of KCSL's twenty-year development history.

UniFind Server, the Most Advanced Enterprise Natural Language Search Solution, addresses the exponential growth of unstructured data in the corporate world.

• In 2002, KCSL released the first fully functional, commercially available, high quality Simultaneous Bilingual Search solution.

• In 2003, KCSL released the UniFind Appliance, combining all the license, hardware, maintenance, and support for UniFind into a simple package purchased through a single agreement.

UniFind CrossLanguage™ Search, also released in 2003, is able to search information not only in multiple languages, one at a time, but also across many languages simultaneously.

• In 2004, KCSL once again broke language barriers with the limited release of its newest language technology tool, NoBabel™ Translator.

• Since then working with several partners KCSL has been developing and improving its NoBabel technology and the resulting products.

• NoBabel’s unique linguistic and statistical technology is completely automated, easy to use and increases translator productivity.

• In 2007, KCSL released the online NoBabel Enhancer Demo.

• In Q1 2008, KCSL released the Web Enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) versions of both NoBabel Enhancer and NoBabel AutoAligner.

• In Q3 2008 KCSL released NoBabel Analyzer and NoBabel Scrubber.

• In 2009 KCSL released NoBabel TranslateIT.

• In Q2 2010 KCSL released NoBabel 3.1, a significant improvement to Machine Translation, ready for
post-editing.

• NoBabel Product Suite includes NoBabel Enhancer, NoBabel AutoAligner, NoBabel Analyzer, NoBabel Scrubber, and NoBabel TranslateIT.

 
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