The third pack we launched is the Arabic pack. Arabic, the fifth most spoken language in the world, is the official language in twenty countries and co-official in six others. It is the first language of 280 million speakers, and the second language of another 250 million. Moreover, for religious reasons, several million Muslims living in other countries have knowledge of Arabic.

Its most peculiar characteristic is that it uses its own writing system, from right to left, joining the letters together. In this way, each letter can have up to four forms. It is also interesting that, despite the fact that they were introduced in the 1920s, there are no capital letters in Arabic. Since sometimes common names can be confused with proper names, the latter are usually enclosed in parentheses or quotes.

MeaningCloud now provides coverage for Arabic for the following functionality:

• Topics Extraction: covers the detection of entities and, partially, expressions of time.
• Text Clustering: full coverage.

The second pack we launched is the Russian pack. Russian is the official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It was the de facto language in the Soviet Union, so its use it’s also common in the Baltic States, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It’s the most common of the Slavic languages with almost 144 million speakers.

Russian is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, and although transliteration into the Latin alphabet has been common due to the technical restrictions and to the unavailability of Cyrillic keyboards abroad, it’s used less and less thanks to the Unicode extension that incorporates the Russian alphabet and the many free programs that leverage it.

MeaningCloud now provides coverage for Russian for the following functionality:

• Topics Extraction: covers the detection of entities and partially, expressions of time.
• Text Clustering: full coverage.

The first pack we are launching is the Chinese pack. Chinese, the official language of the People’s Republic of China. It’s the language with the most native speakers, almost a 16% of the global population.

Chinese (in all its varieties) is a group of languages based on ideograms, traditionally arranged in vertical columns, read from top to bottom down a column and right to left across columns. The variety covered by MeaningCloud is simplified Chinese.

MeaningCloud now provides coverage for Chinese for the following functionality:

• Topics Extraction: covers the detection of entities and partially, expressions of time.
• Text Clustering: full coverage.