Established in 1991, TILDE is the Baltic leading-edge IT company specializing in language technologies, multilingual and Internet software, and localization.

Language technologies. TILDE provides intelligent language technologies for the languages of the Baltic countries that are equivalent to the support available for major world’s languages, using a combination of statistical and knowledge driven approaches. TILDE’s experience resulted in excellence covering three main areas:

• Translation tools
• Speech technologies
• Information search and retrieval

Digital content. TILDE creates new possibilities for the cultural riches and terminology content in the digital world. Tilde has launched the first Baltic encyclopedia – a reference and dictionary Web service called letonika.lv, providing local Latvian content. All resources are united by a powerful search engine that enables finding information in all resources – texts, images and multimedia objects simultaneously. TILDE has a working relationship with over 400 public libraries in Latvia that are subscribers to TILDE’s content resources and its search system.

Enterprise content management. Tildes Biroja Serveris (TBS) developed by TILDE is an enterprise document and information management environment based on Windows SharePoint Services and adapted for Latvian language, legislative requirements and business practices. TBS provides possibility to organize and manage the most important business components for enterprises and organizations.

Terminology services.  As a member of the EuroTermBank Consortium, TILDE develops and hosts the multilingual terminology portal www.eurotermbank.com, providing a consolidated interface to over 1.5 million terms in various European languages. Accessible for human and machine users, this rich content resides in the central database as well as external interlinked terminology banks. Its innovative entry compounding technology enables establishing new links across terminology collections and languages.

Audiovisual content processing. TILDE offers multimedia content preparation, processing, storage and delivery, multimedia content search solutions, unique content data base management. Various cutting edge technologies are used for data delivery.

Localization services. TILDE covers localization needs of customers for all three languages of the Baltic countries. Localization team consists of skilful and experienced in-house translators, terminologists, linguists, QA specialists and technicians, providing services for such companies as IBM, Microsoft, Nokia.

Research and development. As a highly innovative SME, TILDE participates in European research projects financed by European Commission. These activities cover the areas of terminology, language technologies, information retrieval, e-learning, cultural heritage, internet and multimedia. TILDE’s profile in the EU funded projects varies from a content provider eTEN (project eRMIONE – E-Learning Resource Management Service for Interoperability Networks in the European Cultural Heritage Domain) to a research partner FP5 (CLARITY -Cross language information retrieval and organization of text and audio documents), FP6 (MIAUCE - Multi modal Interaction Analysis and exploration of Users within a Controlled Environment and TRIPOD- TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description) and a project coordinator in eContent (EuroTermBank – Collection of Pan-European Terminology Resources through Cooperation of Terminology Institutions). Currently number of new FP7 and ICT PSP projects have been lunched.

International cooperation. TILDE has established successful international cooperation with research institutes and educational organizations around Europe: the Institute for Information Management in Germany, University of Tartu in Estonia, University of Sheffield and University of Glasgow in UK, University of Zurich in Switzerland, and many others.

TILDE operates from its three Baltic offices in Riga, Tallinn, and Vilnius, with the head office located in Riga, Latvia. TILDE employs a highly committed team of information technology and language experts and researchers. TILDE’s aim is to participate in leading European research projects, contributing its industrial and technological expertise and project experience.