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 ...

A 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 ...

Interview: 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 ...

Keeping 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 ...

Optimizing 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 ...

Making 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 ...

Listening 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?

Hats 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 ...

Fixing 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 ...

Search 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 ...

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 ...