Name matching in the Lemonade Aftermath
How wrong was the “Beyhive” when they mistook Rachael Ray for Rachel Roy? The drama True to form, Beyoncé once again “broke the internet” Saturday night with the surprise drop of her ...
Learn moreHLTCon: Open Source Intelligence to Forecast the Future, Monitor Events, Unlock the Dark Web
Government forum HLTCon showcases new possibilities through text analytics From making sense of a recent tragic event, to monitoring major world events as they are occurring–and even predicting social unrest in ...
Learn moreHLTCon: Saving Lives With Natural Language Processing at HLTCon
Detection and Prediction of Heart Attacks and Suicide From the Analysis of Unstructured Text You’ve probably heard plenty about companies using text analytics to track of their brand on social media, ...
Learn moreHLTCon: Cracking the Code to the Next Breakthrough in Machine Translation
CIA’s Chief of Human Language Technology Speaks at HLTCon, March 31, 2016 No one believes that machine translation is a completely solved problem, but Dr. Patricia O'Neill-Brown, the Chief of Human ...
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Luminoso
Spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2010, Luminoso quickly drew the attention of major consumer brands. Its flagship product, Luminoso Analytics, digests large volumes of text-based customer feedback, ...
Learn moreCustomer Hackathons: In the Trenches with Rosette Engineers
Basis Technology and Kyper Data Technologies engineers collaborate on code. Image by Alyssa Watson of Kyper. It’s 9am, the coffee is freshly brewed, and fingers are hovering over keyboards, poised to ...
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Virginia Tech: EMBERS
Would Scotland be an independent country today if it had not scheduled a vote? Some say the United Kingdom narrowly held onto Scotland because the British government pledged “more self-rule” ...
Learn moreRoad To Japan: How to Yelp Like a Native
If a politician is to gain favor, it’s good to remember that “all politics is local.” That’s also true in the business of crowdsourcing reviews of local businesses. Yelp clearly ...
Learn moreAn Elasticsearch Plugin for Simple Fuzzy Name Matching
Normalization is crucial to high quality search results -- who wants irrelevant variations between queries and documents leading to missed hits (e.g., “celebrity” v. “celebrities”)? Normalizing dictionary words works, but ...
Learn moreWhat’s New in Highlight 7.2
This latest version of Highlight has significant enhancements for government linguists and translators that use this Microsoft Office plug-in to translate and standardize names between English and non-Latin languages—Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Pashto, and Russian.
Learn moreElasticsearch and Fuzzy Name Matching Meetup, World Tour
Normalization is crucial to high-quality search results -- who wants irrelevant variations between queries and documents leading to missed hits (e.g., “celebrity” v. “celebrities”)? Normalizing dictionary words works, but what ...
Learn moreLanguage Learning Gets a Boost From Lingua.ly
New browser extension accelerates language learning on the Web Lingua.ly—the latest innovative business to take advantage of the Basis Technology Startup Program—was making a splash in the Chrome Web Store last ...
Learn moreFuzzy Name Search and Name Matching Presentations in San Francisco
Names connect data points and are frequently the most important piece of information in a document. But unlike common nouns and verbs, they defy standardization, making them an elusive search ...
Learn moreAccurate Language Detection for Queries & Tweets
Doubles the Accuracy of Existing Language Identification Software Basis Technology’s Rosette language identification function has been improved to solve the problem of language detection for short texts. Existing language detectors require many words ...
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