Millions of users around the world rely on Priberam technology

Priberam is the world’s leading supplier of natural language processing and search technologies for the Portuguese language and the market leader in law knowledge management systems in Portugal. Multidisciplinary teams of software engineers, linguists and lawyers, among others, develop the company portfolio of products and services that are used by millions of persons around the world.

Milestones

Some key achievements from Priberam’s foundation

1989
Founding

Priberam is established in Lisbon, Portugal

1991
LegiX

First version of Priberam’s Legal Research system

1994
Proofing tools

First European Portuguese spell checker

1997
Grammar Checker

FLiP includes the first Portuguese grammar checker

2000
Microsoft

Microsoft licenses Priberam’s proofing tools for Microsoft Office

2001
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

Priberam becomes one of the first Microsoft Gold Certified Partners worldwide

2001
Semantic Search

Start of the TRUST (Text Retrieval Using Semantic Technologies) project

2004
Brazil

Priberam’s proofing tools suite for Brazilian Portuguese

2005
Question Answering

Priberam wins QA@CLEF international evaluation on Question Answering

2006
Mobile

Priberam launches a mobile dictionary (in WAP!)

2007
Innovation

Priberam enters COTEC‘s Innovative SMEs network

2008
Media and Publishing

Priberam Search is deployed in the first media sites

2009
Dictionary
2010
Academia Partnerships
2011
Amazon

Amazon licenses Priberam’s Portuguese resources for Kindle

2012
Priberam Labs

Created to conduct applied and exploratory research in the areas of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

2013
Machine Learning

Start of Intelligo project to develop Priberam’s machine learning infrastructure

2014
Recommendation

Priberam deploys first news recommendation system

2016
Media Monitoring

Start of SUMMA project with BBC Monitoring and Deutsche Welle

2017
Spain

Priberam’s first Spanish media client

2018
INSIGHT

Priberam starts developing a Technology Watch and Horizon Scanning platform

2019
Healthcare

The Digital Patient project wins the Prémio HINTT in the Value Proposition category

2020
TRAINER

Start of TRAINER project on transfer learning

2021
MONITIO and SELMA

Start of two new European projects

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