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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"), witch is a popular online reference dictionary, both for European Portuguese and for Brazilian Portuguese, licensed by Amazon for Kindle and for Alexa, and by Kobo.

History
Priberam was founded in 1989, by João Prieto, João Bernardo and Carlos Amaral, as an Instituto Superior Técnico spin-off. João Bernardo left shortly after they started the company, then joined Afonso Mendes and Pedro Amaral, the other two current partners of the company.

Priberam was the first company to have an online Portuguese language dictionary, back in 1996.

The company developed the first spell checker for European Portuguese (in 1994) and the first grammar checker for European Portuguese in 1997. The company is currently leading the state-of-the-art in the areas of natural language processing and machine learning.