Company profile
Specialists in French-language linguistic engineering, Synapse Développement's leading products are Cordial® and Lexical®
Synapse Développement is a French company specialized in software development for the French language. Synapse Développement is one of the founding members of the Natural Language Understanding Consortium (NLUC), an international group of linguistic technology experts in five main European languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).
The company's leading-edge product is Cordial®, the French language grammar and spelling corrector that the media have unanimously heralded as being by far the best product of its kind for the French language.
Another major product is Lexical®, a multilingual defining dictionary that provides full, multidirectional cross-referencing to translating dictionaries in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian. Lexical received much critical acclaim when it was first launched, and continues to provide unbeatable value for money in its current Version 2 release. Lexical fully integrates with Cordial.
As a software company owned and operated by its development team, Synapse Développement has just one ambition: to offer the best French language correction software on the market. A highly trained and efficient technical support staff forms a pivotal link between users and the company's software engineers, ensuring rapid implementation of requested features.
The company's registered headquarters is in Toulouse, France.
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The French language corrector Cordial 5 ranks No. 1 in twelve comparative surveys
Cordial's unsurpassed technology
Heralded by the specialized press as being the best French-language grammatical and syntactical corrector available today, Cordial 5 comes out on top in 12 out of 14 published comparative surveys.
With the integration of a new semantic database, this latest release of Cordial 5 again sets the standard for the correction and syntactical discrimination of the French language.
Independent experts agree that Cordial 5 represents the leading edge of a revolutionary new generation of software.
Here's why:- Instead of simply analyzing words (like spelling checkers do), or analyzing sentences (like grammar checkers do), Cordial 5 analyzes a source text integrally, taking into account the interrelationship of all words, sentences and paragraphs as a whole.
- When Cordial 5 scans a text, it continuously memorizes analytical data, including thematic and conceptual relationships. Cordial 5 uses that data to improve syntactical and semantic discrimination by fine-tuning its analysis as it goes along. Cordial detects key words, sentences, and concepts, including concepts that are abnormally absent or underdeveloped in a given thematic context. Cordial distinguishes various levels of speech, including familiar, jargon, vulgar, and regional usage.
- This process greatly improves the speed and quality of correction, and Cordial 5 properly identifies and corrects certain classic examples of semantic confusion errors that competing software blithely ignores.
- Cordial 5 integrates fully with Word (versions 6, 7/95, 8/97, 2000) and other Microsoft Office applications and is easily accessible under WordPro and WordPerfect. What's more, in its stand-alone mode, Cordial can be used interactively with almost any application using cut and paste technology.
- Cordial 5 not only corrects better than competing products, it is also corrects faster, as independent tests show time and again.
Cordial comes with the complete Littré dictionary
Cordial integrates the complete version of the Dictionnaire Littré. Whether in its stand-alone mode or integrated with your favorite word processor, Cordial 5 allows you to simply right click on your mouse in order to look up definitions for more than 80,000 words in the French language. The Littré is fully searchable, uses hypertext links, and features convenient display options that allow you to view information exactly as you want to.
Cordial 5 is the world's first application of this type to provide full and clear display of the Littré's 250,000 literary citations, including complete author names.
Includes analogical dictionary
The Cordial 5 dictionary of analogies helps you sharpen your style by rapidly matching key ideas with the most appropriate words to express them. Analogies can be explored interactively along with the dictionary of synonyms (and vice versa), offering more than 200,000 word choices for more than 2 million analogies.
Full statistical and semantic analysis
Cordial 5 uses more than 100 variables to provide full statistical and semantic analysis, incorporating an intelligent help system that assists you in improving your command of the French language.
Operating systems
Cordial is available on CD-ROM for Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, and Macintosh environments.
Other features
Cordial 5 offers:
- More dictionary terms than ever, including a revised dictionary of common and proper nouns (20% more than in Cordial 4), and an unlimited number of user dictionaries
- Dictionary entires for more than 650,000 words covering 110,000 generic forms, 1,500 Anglicisms, 2,000 homophonies, and 10,000 problem words
- A thesaurus includes 250,000 entries for a total of more than 3,500,000 synonyms and antonyms combinations
- Optional add-ons include specialized dictionary packs for the technical, medical, engineering, sales, and legal professions
- Optional dictionary editor add-on
- CORDIAL 5 works hand in hand with standard OCR software in order improve recognition and reduce manual editing time
Contact information
- Contact:
- Mr. Dominique Laurent
Email: dlaurent@synapse-fr.com - Address:
- Synapse Développement
33 rue Maynard
F-31000 TOULOUSE
France - Phone: +33 (0)5 61 63 69 90
- Fax: +33 (0)5 61 63 69 09
- Web: www.synapse-fr.com
