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Language coverage by NLP service

The Bitext NLP matrix maps each linguistic service to the languages where it is available: language identification, sentence segmentation, tokenization, word segmentation, lemmatization, decompounding, spelling, POS tagging, entity extraction, phrase extraction and parsing.

77 base languages
20 language variants
11 NLP service
Decompounding included
Samples available

77

Base languages

Language matrix coverage

20

Variants

Language variants in the matrix summary

97

Max total resources

77 languages + 20 variants for broad services

11

NLP services

From language ID to parsing

 
 
Coverage by NLP service

What each service covers

Each card shows base-language coverage, variant coverage and total resources for that service.

Language ID

77
base languages
20 variants / 97 total

detect language in mixed text

Sentence Seg.

77
base languages
20 variants / 97 total

split text into sentences

Tokenization

73
base languages
19 variants / 92 total

split sentences into words

Word Seg.

4
base languages
2 variants / 6 total

no-space tokenization

Lemmatization

77
base languages
20 variants / 97 total

return roots for word forms

Decompounding

13
base languages
6 variants / 19 total

split compound words

Spelling

77
base languages
20 variants / 97 total

check spelling correctness

POS tagging

30
base languages
15 variants / 45 total

disambiguate parts of speech

Entities

14
base languages
19 variants / 33 total

detect names and special text

Phrase Extraction

8
base languages
12 variants / 20 total

noun, verb and prep phrases

Parsing

21
Languages
13 variants / 34 total

hierarchical sentence trees

Full pipeline

1
SDK approach
many modules, one stack

combine lexical, syntactic and semantic services

Detailed service totals

Exact coverage by NLP service

Language identification

77 base
20 variants
97 total

Detect language used in each sentence of a longer input text

Sentence segmentation

77 base
20 variants
97 total

Split text into sentences using language-specific punctuation rules

Tokenization

73 base
19 variants
92 total

Split sentences into words using language-specific space and punctuation rules

Word segmentation

4 base
2 variants
6 total

Split no-space text into words for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai

Lemmatization

77 base
20 variants
97 total

Return possible roots for word forms

Decompounding

13 base
6 variants
19 total

Split compound words into component words for compound-heavy languages

Spelling

77 base
20 variants
97 total

Check if a word is spelled correctly

POS tagging

30 base
15 variants
45 total

Disambiguate and return the part of speech for each word in a sentence

Entity extraction

14 base
19 variants
33 total

Detect proper names, places, organizations and special text such as phones or URLs

Phrase extraction

8 base
12 variants
20 total

Return constituents such as noun phrases, verb phrases and prepositional phrases

Parsing

21 base
13 variants
34 total

Produce a hierarchical sentence tree of words, phrases and clauses

Services by level

Lexical, syntactic and semantic coverage

The matrix separates the services that prepare raw text at word level from the services that add grammar, structure and meaning.

Lexical services

Prepare raw text before it reaches downstream systems

These services normalize, split and validate text at the language and word level

Language ID
Sentence segmentation
Tokenization
Word segmentation
Lemmatization
Decompounding
Spelling
Syntactic and semantic services

Add grammar, entities and sentence-level structure

These services create richer linguistic signals for extraction, analysis and AI workflows

POS tagging
Entity extraction
Phrase extraction
Parsing

Base languages in the matrix

77 base languages

Broad lexical services such as language identification, sentence segmentation, lemmatization and spelling are available across this base list.

Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Azeri
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bulgarian
Burmese
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish Gaelic
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Malayalam
Marathi
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian
Oriya
Persian / Farsi
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog / Filipino
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Zulu

Language variants

Regional coverage for market-specific behavior

Variants matter when vocabulary, spelling, morphology, entities or usage differ across markets

Data samples & language specifications

Proof buyers can open

These sample files and language specification PDFs show real lexical entries, lemmas, POS, morphology, entity information, frequency and language-specific attributes.

Download the full NLP service matrix

Download the updated Appendix C matrix to review Bitext language coverage by NLP service, including lexical normalization, decompounding, POS tagging, entity extraction, phrase extraction and parsing.

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The Experiment
We tested this idea using the Leipzig English News corpora from the Wortschatz Project at Leipzig University. We analyzed datasets from 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Across these datasets, the pipeline processed roughly:

2 million raw news articles
400K articles after topical filtering
From these documents the pipeline extracted:

millions of entity mentions
tens of millions of co-mention relationships
To focus on economic and technology narratives, documents were filtered using the IPTC Media Topics taxonomy, keeping only:

Economy, Business and Finance
Science and Technology

Why LLMs Are the Wrong Tool for Enterprise-Grade Entity Extraction

Large Language Models are powerful systems for language generation and reasoning.
However, when they are used for entity extraction in enterprise environments, they introduce instability where reliability is required.
Entity extraction is not about creativity or interpretation. It is infrastructure. In production systems, entities must be extracted in a way that is consistent, repeatable, and stable over time.

Tagging consistency is essential to ensure that training is smooth. Contradictions and inconsistencies not only decrease accuracy but also generate hidden costs in MLOps when trying to debug and fix errors. We often take this consistency for granted, but that is rarely the case, not only in these datasets but also in any other manual tagging work.

Consistency starts with having a solid and clear definition of what an entity is. Typically, if not always, that’s not the case.

And knowledge graphs are built using automatic data extraction tools: not only entity extraction but also concept extraction and relationships among entities or concepts.

German & Korean Retrieval Fails Without Proper Decompounding

German and Korean do not break retrieval because they are unusually complex; they break retrieval because most systems still treat complex words as monolithic strings. When compounds and eojeols remain opaque, search engines cannot align queries with documents—even when they contain the same meaning. Any team building multilingual search, vector search or RAG must incorporate reliable decompounding as a foundational step to avoid systematic retrieval failures.

Tagging consistency is essential to ensure that training is smooth. Contradictions and inconsistencies not only decrease accuracy but also generate hidden costs in MLOps when trying to debug and fix errors. We often take this consistency for granted, but that is rarely the case, not only in these datasets but also in any other manual tagging work.

Consistency starts with having a solid and clear definition of what an entity is. Typically, if not always, that’s not the case.

And knowledge graphs are built using automatic data extraction tools: not only entity extraction but also concept extraction and relationships among entities or concepts.

The Moment to Pay Attention to Hybrid NLP (Symbolic + ML)

Problem. There’s broad consensus today: LLMs are phenomenal personal productivity tools — they draft, summarize, and assist effortlessly.
But there’s also growing recognition that they’re still not ready for enterprise-grade deployment.

Using Public Corpora to Build Your NER systems

Rationale. NER tools are at the heart of how the scientific community is solving LLM issues using GraphRAG and NodeRAG architectures.

LLMs need knowledge graphs to control hallucinations and make them more solid for enterprise-level use.

And knowledge graphs are built using automatic data extraction tools: not only entity extraction but also concept extraction and relationships among entities or concepts.

Open-Source Data and Training Issues

As described in our previous post “Using Public Corpora to Build Your NER systems”, we are going to highlight areas where public datasets like OntoNotes or CoNLL can be improved. We will provide some tips on how to avoid these issues, whenever possible, using (semi-)automatic techniques.

Tagging consistency is essential to ensure that training is smooth. Contradictions and inconsistencies not only decrease accuracy but also generate hidden costs in MLOps when trying to debug and fix errors. We often take this consistency for granted, but that is rarely the case, not only in these datasets but also in any other manual tagging work.

Consistency starts with having a solid and clear definition of what an entity is. Typically, if not always, that’s not the case.

And knowledge graphs are built using automatic data extraction tools: not only entity extraction but also concept extraction and relationships among entities or concepts.

Why Semantic Intelligence Is the Missing Link in Active Metadata and Data Governance

The new Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2025 makes one thing clear: governance is no longer about static catalogs. Vendors are moving fast into Active Metadata and Agentic AI, with features like lineage, observability, policy enforcement, and marketplaces for data assets.

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Multilingual Named Entity Recognition for Knowledge Graphs: Supporting 70+ Languages with Precision

In the era of data-driven decision-making, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have emerged as pivotal tools for structuring, organizing, and interconnecting vast amounts of information. From enhancing search engine capabilities to powering AI-driven insights, KGs rely heavily on extracting, interpreting, and linking data elements with precision. At the core of this process lies Named Entity Recognition (NER), event extraction, and relationship mapping, foundational technologies for enabling robust knowledge management. Bitext’s NER solution, NAMER, is uniquely positioned to support the growing needs of KG companies, offering unparalleled features that address common industry challenges.

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