God is not Divine? The Pope is not Catholic? or how translation introduces loss and can distort meaning
Pope Francis has grabbed many headlines by discussing what appear to be bold changes to Catholic doctrine. However, one recent headline would make it sound like he wants to rethink ...
Learn moreA Better Pure Java RegEx Engine
Regular expressions are ubiquitous in NLP, not to mention many miscellaneous text-processing tasks. People use regular expressions as a quick solution to matching and parsing. People build entire complex extraction ...
Learn moreInterview: The Future of Human Language Technology
Our VP of Engineering, David Murgatroyd, was recently invited to provide input to a US Government effort to chart the future of Human Language Technology (HLT). Input was collected as ...
Learn moreKeeping pace with the ever-changing name of ISIS through the lens of Wikipedia
If you’ve followed recent events in Syria and Iraq, then you’ve surely heard of an organization that at various times is referred to as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and ...
Learn moreOptimizing Multilingual Search Using Solr
David Anthony Troiano Principal Software Engineer This talk was delivered at the Boston Data Con 2014 on September 13th, 2014. David Troiano explains how to optimize Apache Solr for multilingual search. Using the example of "Serie ...
Learn moreMaking sense of unstructured data by turning strings into things
Gregor Stewart Product Manager for Text Analytics This talk was delivered at the Big Data Analytics, Discovery & Visualization Meetup in Cambridge, MA on August 21st, 2014. Gregor Stewart gives an overview of Basis Technology's ...
Learn moreListening to the Customer with Text Analytics
As the old saying goes, “The customer is always right.” But how do we know what customers are saying when they aren’t talking to us directly and there may be millions of them? And how can we decide when something a single customer is saying has implications for the way we do business with all of our customers?
Learn moreHats off to Newsle! Well done, LinkedIn!
It’s official; two students in a dorm room is the new startup paradigm. This past Monday, news tracking site Newsle, which was co-founded by two Harvard sophomores, was acquired by ...
Learn moreFixing the No Fly List with Cross-lingual Name Matching
Or: How to detain Tsarnaev But Not Your Grandmother Recent news stories trumpeting the unconstitutionality of the No Fly list (Washington Post) miss the point. Sensationalized headlines like “No-fly list violates ...
Learn moreSearch and Beyond with Text Analytics
Benson Margulies Chief Technology Officer, Basis Technology This talk looks at how some of our language processing components help applications give users a high quality search experience. This is a partial transcript of the recorded ...
Learn moreWho, 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.
Learn moreWhy 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 ...
Learn moreSynthexis 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 ...
Learn moreStretching 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 ...
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