Priberam
{{short description|Portuguese dictionary software developer}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Priberam
| logo =
| type = Private
| industry = Software
| founded = 1989 in Lisbon, Portugal
| founders = João Prieto, João Bernardo, Carlos Amaral
| hq_location_city = Lisbon
| hq_location_country = Portugal
| products = Dictionaries, Spell checkers, Grammar checkers, Search engines, Software
| num_employees = approximately 20
| website = {{URL|priberam.com}}
}}
Priberam is a Portuguese technology company, dictionary editor and software developer, based in Lisbon.
Priberam owns the Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa ("Priberam Portuguese Language Dictionary"), which is an online dictionary, both for European Portuguese and for Brazilian Portuguese, licensed by Amazon for use with its Kindle devices{{cite web|title=Amazon Launches Brazil Kindle Store (www.amazon.com.br) and Free Portuguese Kindle Reading Apps for Android Phones and Tablets, iPads and iPhones—R$299 Kindle Available in the Coming Weeks|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121206005492/en/Amazon-Launches-Brazil-Kindle-Store-www.amazon.com.br-Free|publisher=Business Wire |date=2012-06-12 |accessdate=2020-01-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.milibrodigital.com/todo-lo-que-debes-saber-sobre-los-diccionarios-de-kindle.html|title=Todo lo que debes saber sobre los diccionarios de Kindle | Guía de Kindle|date=September 5, 2018}} and for Alexa, and by Kobo.{{cite web|title=Kobo passa a usar dicionários da Priberam |url=https://visao.sapo.pt/exameinformatica/noticias-ei/software/2012-11-28-kobo-passa-a-usar-dicionarios-da-priberam/|publisher=Exame Informática |date=2012-11-28 |language=pt |accessdate=2020-01-15}}
History
Priberam was founded in 1989{{Cite interview|url=https://magg.pt/2019/11/13/priberam-quem-e-que-criou-o-dicionario-online-mais-famoso-de-portugal/|title=Priberam. Quem é que criou o dicionário online mais famoso de Portugal?|interviewer=Ana Luísa Bernardino|website=MAGG|date=13 November 2019|language=pt}} by João Prieto, João Bernardo and Carlos Amaral, as a spin-off of the Instituto Superior Técnico.{{Cite web|url=https://tt.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/innovators/comunidade-ist-spin-off/|title=IST Spin-Off Community|website=tt.tecnico.ulisboa.pt|access-date=2020-01-15}} João Bernardo left shortly after the company was started. Afonso Mendes and Pedro Amaral joined the company shortly thereafter, and are currently, together with Carlos Amaral and João Prieto, the partners of the company.
Priberam was the first company to have an online Portuguese language dictionary, which dates back to 1996.{{cite web|title=Priberam, a empresa mãe do dicionário mais conhecido da internet, faz 30 anos |url=https://www.comunidadeculturaearte.com/priberam-a-empresa-mae-do-dicionario-mais-conhecido-da-internet-faz-30-anos/|publisher=Comunidade Cultura e Arte |date=2019-10-01 |language=pt |accessdate=2020-01-15 }}
The company developed the first spell checker for European Portuguese (in 1994),{{cite web|title=Priberam faz 30 anos |url=https://www.pcguia.pt/2019/10/priberam-faz-30-anos/ |publisher=PC Guia |date=2020-10-01 |language=pt |accessdate=2020-01-15}} and the first grammar checker for European Portuguese (in 1997).{{cite periodical |last=Figueira |first=H. |last2=Mendes |first2=A. |last3=Mendes |first3=P. |last4=Pinto |first4=C. |date=2009 |title=Implicações do acordo ortográfico da língua portuguesa de 1990 em programas informáticos de correção ortográfica |url=https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/rhumanidades/article/view/986/807/ |journal= Revista Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias |number=12 |pages=25-35 |publisher=Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.}}
The company is currently integrating projects in the areas of natural language processing and machine learning.{{cite web|title=Como a Priberam está a mudar o seu modelo de negócio com Machine Learning aplicado à língua|url=https://tek.sapo.pt/noticias/computadores/artigos/como-a-priberam-esta-a-mudar-o-seu-modelo-de-negocio-com-machine-learning-aplicado-a-lingua|work=SAPO Tek|publisher=SAPO |date=2019-08-16 |language=pt |accessdate=2020-01-15}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.priberam.com/}}