More than 5000 Visits per day: Number of Users at "Dictionaries and Grammar" Website Canoo.net Increases Steadily

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More than 5000 Visits per day: Number of Users at "Dictionaries and Grammar" Website Canoo.net Increases Steadily

Basel, March 19, 2003. Since 2000, Canoo AG provides an interactive, online grammar reference tool for German at:
http://www.canoo.net

Various dictionaries and grammar rules are linked dynamically by an interactive web application. A search interface points to all
relevant links within the dictionaries and grammar. Since its launch, the number of regular users at Canoo.net has increased
steadily. In the meantime, over 5000 visits are registered daily at the free online service.

Interactive Spelling Dictionary

For all that need to write German texts, or that are studying German, Canoo offers a free, interactive spelling dictionary at:
http://www.canoo.net/services/GermanSpellingDictionary/ueberblick/index.html?lang=en

Canoo.net searches for the word entered and finds out if it is affected by the spelling reform, providing the grammatical category
and any related information. All entries in the spelling dictionary are directly linked to the corresponding spelling rules. See the
dictionary entry for the word "Fußballlehrer":
http://www.canoo.net/services/Controller?input=Fussballlehrer&service=spelling&lang=en

In addition to checking for words affected by the spelling reform, the spelling dictionary verifies compliance with major German
publisher style guides and recognizes regional variants used in the other German speaking countries, Austria and Switzerland.

As a further help, users can consult the dictionaries for inflection, morphology and word formation with over 250,000 lexicon
entries. In addition, Canoo.net provides a direct link to the largest online German-English dictionary LEO.
For example, a search term such as "Nonstopflug" generates links to all dictionaries:
http://www.canoo.net/services/Controller?input=Nonstopflug&service=canooNet&lang=en

Searching for items such as "irregular verb" generates links to explanatory grammar texts:
http://www.canoo.net/services/Controller?input=irregular+verb&service=canooNet&lang=en

If the linguistic terminology is unclear, an online glossary is available at:
http://www.canoo.net/services/Index/ueberblick/glossaryIndex.html?MenuId=Terminology1&lang=en
All terms are explained in English and German.

Content for Corporate Intranets

Currently over 1750 HTML pages of German grammar are available. On demand the online language service can be integrated into
corporate networks and services. Corporate terminology databases and glossaries can be added, if available. For further information,
contact: mailto:wmtrans-info@canoo.com

Google uses WMTrans language tools

Canoo Online Services are based on the WMTrans product range. Detailed information about this morphology software is available at:
http://www.canoo.com/wmtrans
Customers such as Google, NZZ Online and the translation dictionary Leo use WMTrans products.

Canoo AG

Founded in 1999, Canoo (http://www.canoo.com) delivers custom-made software solutions for business applications on the Internet,
Intranet, and Extranet. Canoo is based in Basel, Switzerland.

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