About us
We deliver the solutions you need
Priberam offers natural language processing and machine learning technologies to an extended portfolio of clients, including Amazon, Kobo, Microsoft and leading media publishers in Portugal, Brazil and Spain.
Millions of users around the world rely on Priberam technology
Priberam is the world’s leading supplier of natural language processing and search technologies for the Portuguese language and the market leader in law knowledge management systems in Portugal. Multidisciplinary teams of software engineers, linguists and lawyers, among others, develop the company portfolio of products and services that are used by millions of persons around the world.
Milestones
Some key achievements from Priberam’s foundation
1989
Founding
Priberam is established in Lisbon, Portugal
1994
Proofing tools
First European Portuguese spell checker
2000
Microsoft
Microsoft licenses Priberam’s proofing tools for Microsoft Office
2001
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Priberam becomes one of the first Microsoft Gold Certified Partners worldwide
2001
Semantic Search
Start of the TRUST (Text Retrieval Using Semantic Technologies) project
2004
Brazil
Priberam’s proofing tools suite for Brazilian Portuguese
2005
Question Answering
Priberam wins QA@CLEF international evaluation on Question Answering
2006
Mobile
Priberam launches a mobile dictionary (in WAP!)
2008
Media and Publishing
Priberam Search is deployed in the first media sites
2011
Amazon
Amazon licenses Priberam’s Portuguese resources for Kindle
2012
Priberam Labs
Created to conduct applied and exploratory research in the areas of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
2013
Machine Learning
Start of Intelligo project to develop Priberam’s machine learning infrastructure
2014
Recommendation
Priberam deploys first news recommendation system
2016
Media Monitoring
Start of SUMMA project with BBC Monitoring and Deutsche Welle
2017
Spain
Priberam’s first Spanish media client
2018
Insight
Priberam starts developing a Technology Watch and Horizon Scanning platform
2019
Healthcare
The Digital Patient project wins the Prémio HINTT in the Value Proposition category
2020
Trainer
Start of TRAINER project on transfer learning
2021
MONITIO and SELMA
Start of two new European projects