Innovation in Electronic Dictionaries

The use of electronic dictionaries may well be revolutionized by the introduction of context-sensitive searches for dictionary lookups. Lingenio, a company based in Heidelberg, Germany, has coined its new technology "IntelliDict" to emphasize the intelligent behavior displayed by its new product, the office dictionary series.

An electronic dictionary facilitates looking up a word with a mouse click. However, a flood of corresponding entries can drown a person in information, resulting in uncertainty as to the needed translation. This is where the IntelliDict technology comes into play. Rather than just looking at a single word that has been selected in a text, it analyzes the whole sentence in which the word appears, making use of extended linguistic and lexical data to arrive at precisely the meaning and the translation that will fit the given context. (Via ClickPress)