ABOUT TERAGRAM: CORPORATE

Background

Teragram, a SAS company, is a provider of mobile and multilingual natural language processing technologies that use the meaning of text to distill relevant information from vast amounts of data. Teragram Corporation licenses state–of–the art text technologies and applications providing scalable solutions to numerous problems in natural language, information storage, information extraction, linguistic search and indexing, text correction, and natural language interaction. Teragram Corporation is also an OEM provider of advanced text, Linguistics, information extraction, and management technologies for all major European, Asian and Middle Eastern languages. Teragram Corporation was founded in 1997 by innovators in the field of computational linguistics and was acquired by SAS in 2008. Teragram offers the speed, accuracy and global language support that customers and partners demand to retrieve and organize growing volumes of digital information. Teragram helps customers perform more efficient searches and better organize information in more than 30 languages, enabling them to reach new markets and make better decisions.

Management: Biographies

Yves Schabes, Ph.D., President.
Dr. Yves Schabes co-founded Teragram Corporation with Dr. Emmanuel Roche in 1997. Dr. Schabes has spent the past fifteen years working on issues relating to natural language processing and computer science. Dr. Schabes is the author, or editor, of more than fifty international scientific publications, including co–editor, with Emmanuel Roche, of Finite-State Language Processing (1997, MIT Press, Cambridge MA). Dr. Schabes also is an Associate to the Division of Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Prior to founding Teragram, Dr. Schabes was a Senior Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, MA. He also held a position as a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schabes has been a program committee member of many international scientific conferences and journals. Dr. Schabes received a Ph.D in 1990 in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from l’Ecole Supérieure D'Electricité (France) in 1985.

Emmanuel Roche, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Development
Dr. Emmanuel Roche co–founded Teragram Corporation with Dr. Yves Schabes in 1997. Dr. Roche is a mathematician by training and has investigated numerous formal aspects of Algebra and Computer Science while applying formal results to natural language processing. Emmanuel Roche is the co–editor, with Yves Schabes, of Finite-State Language Processing (1997, MIT Press, Cambridge MA). Dr. Roche was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Linguistics, and a program committee member of many international scientific conferences. He is the author of more than thirty international scientific publications. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Roche was a Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and a Research Associate at the University of Paris 7 and at the Institute Gaspard Monge (Paris). Dr. Roche received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Paris in 1993 and holds a degree from the Ingénieur de l’Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), 1989.

Saratendu Sethi, Director of Engineering.
Mr. Sethi, Director of Engineering, manages the software engineering efforts at Teragram Corporation. Mr. Sethi holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Mr. Sethi has extensive experience in software engineering, natural language processing technologies and is an expert in text processing statistical algorithms and techniques. Mr. Sethi manages the research and development of Teragram lines of products including Teragram concepts extraction, categorization, summarization, and syntactic parsing. Previously to joining Teragram Corporation, Mr. Sethi held research positions at IBM Almaden research center and Boston University specializing on the use of statistical techniques for a content–based search tool using statistical categorization and feature extraction techniques. He holds several academic honors in mathematics and is the author of many publications in multimedia information retrieval.