User:Alexandra Gheorghe/ Optimot

Optimot, linguistic inquiries, is a service provided by the Directorate - General of Linguistic Policy of the Catalan Government in collaboration with the Institute for Catalan Studies and the Terminology Center TERMCAT. It consists of a search engine for linguistic information that helps to clarify doubts about the Catalan language. With Optimot different sources can be checked at the same time in an integrated way. When the search options provided by Optimot do not manage to answer the linguistic question, a personalized inquiry service can be accessed.

History
Up to 2007, the Consortium for Linguistic Normalization, the TERMCAT Terminology Centre, the Institute of Catalan Studies, and the directorate-general of Linguistics Politics with linguistic inquiries that came from general population, companies, organizations, and language professionals. In order to avoid decentralization of the linguistic inquiries and to offer a unified service, Optimot was implemented. The search engine started working in October 2007 and the personalized service began in February 2008. Mainly, Optimot was to improve quality in linguistic-inquiry service by unifying criteria, and to promote linguistic autonomy.

Personalized service
If the linguistic inquiry has not been solved by using the search engine, you can contact the personalized service. To get access to it, you must click on the link to the personalized service and become a member by filling in a form. Once you have completed it, you can send your inquiries and receive your answers.

The personalized service is offered by a team of professional linguists and it is meant to solve doubts about the usage and regulations of the Catalan language. The correction and translation of the text are not an object of this service, nor the recommendation of bibliography or linguistic research. If the team of professionals cannot solve the inquiry, they send it to the institution responsible: the Institute for Catalan Studies, TERMCAT or the Directorate - General of the Linguistic Policy. Moreover, if the user does not have Internet access, they can make their inquiry by phone.

Also see

 * Termcat