Information Age Consulting Request a briefing

Home / Work / SAS Institute

Teaching an enterprise platform to read Arabic

Development partnership with SAS R&D on the Arabic processing capabilities of SAS Text Miner.

PartnerSAS Institute
RelationshipBusiness and development partner
FocusSAS Text Miner
FieldComputational linguistics

SAS Text Miner is used for text analytics worldwide. Its Arabic handling was not built by native computational linguists, and it showed. We worked directly with the SAS research and development team to change that.

What the work involved

  • Working with SAS R&D to develop the capabilities of SAS Text Miner for more effective processing of Arabic.
  • Applying our computational linguistics and natural language processing research to an enterprise-scale commercial platform.
  • Holding both SAS business partner and SAS development partner status in Kuwait.

When a vendor of that size brings in an outside team for a specific language, it is a reasonable signal about where the expertise sits.

Start here

Tell us what your text is doing wrong.

Send us a sample — a set of citizen comments, a document archive, a support inbox — and we will come back with a written read on what is achievable, what it would take, and whether you need us at all.