Basis Technology Government Users Conference: Navigating the Human Terrain

– Two-day program focuses on applications of Human Language Technology in government, defense, and intelligence –

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 6, 2008 — Basis Technology Corporation (www.basistech.com) will host its 2008 Government Users Conference on May 20-21, bringing together experts in human language technology (HLT), document and media exploitation (DOMEX), digital forensics, and linguist productivity. Government employees and contractors are invited to attend this unique event which features an intensive program of talks, demonstrations, tutorials, and roundtable discussions. Conference attendees will learn about the state-of-the-art in technology for navigating the “human terrain” – the social, cultural, and linguistic intelligence which enables understanding of the people among whom our forces operate – with special emphasis on languages of the Middle East and Central Asia.

A key feature of the conference will be Basis Technology’s partner showcase, with presentations and demonstrations of multilingual, full-text search engines; intelligence analysis workbenches; document and media exploitation platforms; universal repositories for structured and unstructured data; and risk mitigation technology. Participating partners include Abraxas Corporation, Attivio, CACI, Endeca, FMS Advanced Systems Group, IDEAL Technology, Lucid Imagination, Mark Logic, SAIC, and Semandex.

The keynote address will be given by the CIA’s Director for Science and Technology, to be followed by talks given by Basis Technology’s CEO and CTO discussing future product plans and industry trends.

For more information, please visit www.basistech.com/conference or write to conference@basistech.com or call 617-386-2090. This conference is provided at no charge to employees of the U.S. Government. A conference registration fee of $495 will apply for contractors.

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for text analytics, information retrieval, and name resolution in many languages. The company’s Rosette® Linguistics Platform is a widely adopted suite of interoperable components that deliver high-performance results to search, business intelligence, E-discovery, and many other enterprise applications.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Customers include industry leaders Autonomy, Convera, Endeca, FAST, Google, LL Bean, Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, Symantec, and Yahoo! Government contractors include BBN Technologies, CACI, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman and SAIC.

Company headquarters are in Cambridge, MA, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.