Black Hills Laboratories
Does your search box find what your customers are looking for? (Search Relevancy)
Does your search box work in languages other than English? (International Search)
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Does your company have good international expansion strategy of your web site and/or software products ? (Internationalization)
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Do you have a stream-lined localization process ? Do you need a custom Okapi filter to extract localizable text from a special file format ? (Localization Automation)
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We also offer high quality English-to-Japanese translation service, specialized for technical documents.
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By the way, we are located in Orinda, California, not in South Dakota, in case you wonder.
Our Services
We can help in these areas:
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Text Search : we will design, evaluate, improve, and/or implement Solr search engine for your site. (Click here for more detail.)
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Internationalization : we will audit and recommend internationalization strategy, and/or implement for you (detail)
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Localization Technology : we will develop custom filters and other components needed to automate part of the localization workflow (detail)
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Japanese Translation: we will translate technical materials from English to Japanese. We will develop translation glossary for your company. (detail)
Our Clients and Projects
Here are some of our clients and services rendered:
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Red Hat (Asia Pacific) : Tuning & bug fixing of Pensieve translation memory and other components of Okapi Framework, to be used in the client's localization workflow.
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Meliorist Technology : Improvement of Solr search relevancy. Investigation and fix of instability of their Solr instances. — "Kuro is a true expert in Apache Solr. He did great work on our project, worked quickly and efficiently, provided valuable insights and expertise, and was generally a pleasure to work with." (Stephan Fopeano, Owner)
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A company that runs a Solr on Windows server for intranet search : Investigation and fix of instability of their Solr instance.