Bitext

Bitext has developed a software platform that analyzes natural language text, based on linguistic knowledge (dictionaries, grammars and ontologies). Bitext’s goal is to provide language technology to any third-party application; from search to sentiment analysis, contextual advertising, spam filters, business intelligence, etc. From their platform, Bitext can develop a solution for any third-party application in a matter of weeks, such as NaturalFinder for search engines. It also offers easy and quick integration (one day for a new search engine) that is compatible with any platform, has a multilingual approach to language analysis, and a low footprint (> 5MB HD space).

Antonio S. Valderrábanos - CEO
Antonio has worked in the field of linguistic technology since 1989. Between 1992 and 1997 he worked for IBM Spain, WordPerfect Corporation and Novell Corporation (Belgium). During these years he worked on deploying linguistic technology in fields such as information retrieval, electronic publishing, spelling and grammatical correction, translation, etc. He started consulting services on linguistic technology in Madrid in 1998. Bitext started out by developing consulting activities. In the academic field, Antonio has a Bachelor Degree in Philology from the Universidad de Sevilla and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Enrique Torrejón - R&D Manager
Enrique has worked in research and development of natural language processing commercial applications since 1989. He has a degree in Spanish Philology from the Universidad de Sevilla (1989), with major in Spanish Linguistics. In 1990 he joined IBM Scientific Center's team of computational linguists to develop an English-to-Spanish machine translation system for software documentation. In 1991, he got a scholarship from La Caixa to study at Carnegie Mellon University, PA (USA) to pursue a Master in Computational Linguistics. He graduated in 1994 and worked for AT&T Business Translation as machine translation specialist. In 1995, he was hired by Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Machine Translation as Spanish Technical Leader in the KANT project. In 2002, Enrique moved back to Europe to work at the Universidad Europea de Madrid in computer-assisted language learning projetcs using natural language processing technologies. Enrique has recently joined Bitext's team.

Josu Gómez Pérez - Development Director
Josu Gómez Pérez holds a degree in Linguistics from Deusto University, where he completed post-graduate studies in Computational Linguistics. He has been involved in various language technology research projects such as XML-Bi and XTRA-Bi, financed by the Basque Government. He is currently Development Director in Bitext, where he takes care of the coordination of several projects on software integration in the field of search engines, content management and text analysis. Some customers profiting from those projects are the Spanish Ministry for Public Administration and the Regional Government of Castilla y León.