Customer 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 ...
Learn moreCan you rely on the Treasury Department’s Sanctions List Search?
When the United States wants to prohibit its citizens and corporations from doing business with a foreign national, that individual is added to the Specially Designated Nationals list maintained by ...
Learn moreGod 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 ...
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