Who, What, When, Where and the Quest for Why

The marriage of Geospatial Intelligence and Entity Resolution.

This blog post is inspired by the many conversations we had at the recent GEOINT Symposium about how geospatial data can become an ideal pivot point for an entity resolution system enabling users to transition from When and Where to Who and What and the elusive Why.

Why name matching matters

It's marathon season again in Boston and the media is revisiting the tragic events of last year's Boston Marathon bombings. One aspect in particular is getting some attention - how Tamerlan and ...

Synthexis Information Access Survey

The Open Source Search conference (part of Basis Tech Week) is less than a month away, and we’re looking forward to some fascinating presentations from the big players in the ...

Stretching the Boundaries of Search: Basis Partners with Elasticsearch

Over the years Basis Technology has developed partnerships with a wide variety of companies.  These collaborations have brought the advanced multilingual search and text analytics capabilities of Rosette, our enterprise ...

Mark Bennet Interviews Andrew Paulsen on Searchhub.org

Andrew Paulsen, Basis Technology Regional Sales Director, was interviewed recently by Mark Bennet on Searchhub.org. In the interview, Andrew succinctly answers many of the common questions that our prospective customers ...

Why Tokenization Matters

Search is increasingly becoming the first and most important way to access information. Because of the ubiquity of Google, the depth and breadth of Amazon and the growing amount of ...

Delivering More Accurate Search Results with Lemmatization

Many of our commercial and government customers are building extremely powerful and efficient search engines for their own internal or customer's data. Whether they are using open source Solr/Lucene, Elasticsearch ...

Lucene Revolution: Update from the Conference

The Basis Technology team is here in San Diego at the Lucene Revolution conference! We kicked off the show in style at the opening party, where everyone had a great ...

From Text to Truth: Real-World Facets for Multilingual Search

Benson Margulies, Basis Technology's CTO, will be presenting From Text to Truth: Real-World Facets for Multilingual Search at Lucene Revolution on May 1, 2013, in San Diego, CA. Excerpt: From Text to ...

Matching Marathon Bombers’ Name Misspellings and Name Variants

It has been a tough few weeks for Boston. Many of us here at Basis Technology know of someone who was directly affected by the marathon bombings. Our Cambridge office ...

Makisu Day: Rolling Up Innovative Ideas at Basis Technology

Recently, Basis Technology decided to take a break from the routine of Agile/Scrum to have our first ever “hackathon” day. The only rules were: Pick a project that is related to ...

Highlight 5 Release Brings Translation of Names from Pashto to English

Highlight 5’s Transliteration Assistant translates a name in Pashto to English, according to the IC standard. For the government intelligence community, the recent release of Highlight version 5 is a huge productivity boost ...

Understanding Dari and Pashto Names: A Challenge to Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan

Shakespeare asked “What’s in a name?” It turns out there’s a lot in the name of a typical Afghani including common nouns and personal titles—not used as titles! One of our linguistic ...

Rosette Version 7.6 Released!

Extract New Entity Types and Languages; Enhanced Name Translation and Matching for Spanish and Persian Names We’re excited to announce the release of Rosette 7.6 which has many improvements, and several ...

Mission Possible: Connecting Structured and Unstructured Data to Create New Insights

Advanced text analytics can link structured data with unstructured data in ways that were impossible years ago. These capabilities are unlocking insights and enabling new workflows in business domains where ...

Haven’t I Met You Before? Cross-Document Coreference Resolution

The Dude: Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I’m the Dude, man. Blond Treehorn Thug: Your name’s Lebowski, Lebowski. Your wife is Bunny. The Dude: My... my wi-, my ...

Indexing Strategies for Multilingual Search with Solr and Rosette

As a solutions engineer at Basis Technology, I often discuss the integration of Rosette and Apache Solr with our existing and potential clients, who look to Rosette to improve multilingual Solr search in ...

Mining Gold from Big Data with Text Analytics

Sunday’s New York Times featured a news analysis article about the age of big data and how that means more analysis and technologies are being applied to domains which formerly seemed removed ...