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Rosette� language analyzers to support the expansion of MSN Search into Asian markets -

Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 6, 2005�Basis Technology announced today that Microsoft has licensed its Rosette� language analyzers for Chinese and Japanese to support the expansion of MSN Search into Asian markets. The Rosette� analyzers are software components that enable information retrieval applications and search engines to understand queries and search web pages in foreign languages.

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications. The company�s Rosette� Linguistics Platform is a suite of high-performance, robust, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world�s languages.

For more information, visit www.basistech.com