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26 Jun 2017
Blog

Rosette API Adds Support for “Arabizi” Script

Tackling the challenge of Arabic chat written in Latin script The Arabic chat language, known as “Arabizi” or “Arabish”, is a casual version of written Arabic that appeared when Arabic speakers began using Western keyboards on mobile phones and computers to spell out their native language with the Roman alphabet. With the growth of digital […]

22 Jun 2017
Case Study

NYU

Executive summary NYU is pioneering a new university intranet that blends university information with a social network, designed to build community among the widespread NYU population. Developers identified directory search as ...

19 Jun 2017
Blog

How Emoji Reflects Our Evolving Society

Or, what does it mean to lemmatize and normalize emoji for text analytics? Emoticons 🙂 and emoji 😀😆 add a bit of the nonverbal communication that humans inherently crave in our electronic communications. The addition of a winking face 😉 softens a potentially harsh statement or expresses shared camaraderie far more succinctly and immediately than […]

15 Jun 2017
Blog

Rosette API 1.7 Release

Great news! Yesterday we released Rosette API v. 1.7. We added support for Arabic sentiment analysis (beta), confidence scores for all extracted entities, pronominal resolution in targeted relationship extraction, and a new /transliteration endpoint for transforming romanized Arabic chat text (“Arabizi”) to standard Arabic script. We also introduced specialized linguistic analysis for emojis, emoticons, hashtags, […]

13 Jun 2017
Tutorial

Introducing: Rosettepedia

A text analytics recipe for entity extraction enhancement The Rosette Cloud team is always hard at work devising ways for our users to get more value from their unstructured text data. Last month we published a recipe on our community Github that combined multiple Rosette endpoints to produce document summaries. This month, we’re thrilled to […]

07 Jun 2017
Blog

Fundamentals of Understanding, Translating and Matching CJK Names

When we talk about cross-lingual name matching between English and Japanese, it’s pretty straightforward, and pretty obvious which name is in English and which in Japanese. This applies to any set of names written in different scripts: Arabic to Cyrillic, Devanagari to Latin, etc. However, differentiating between names written in the same script, such as […]

25 May 2017
Blog

Vive la République et Vive la France!

Analyzing English and French tweets during the election weekend using Rapidminer and Rosette After the surprising results of the U.S. presidential election and the UK “Brexit” vote, many expected another populist upset in France’s recent election. As we now know, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! defeated populist candidate Marine Le Pen of the National Front. […]

17 May 2017
Blog

Minds Converge: A Machine Learning Meeting in Toulon

Basis Technology R&D presents at the International Conference on Learning Representations in France The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is an annual gathering of leading machine learning experts working in both industry and academia. This year’s conference was held from April 24-26 in Toulon, France. ICLR focuses on a broad range of subjects, with […]

26 Apr 2017
Tutorial

A Text Analytics Recipe For Document Summarization

Analytics with Rosette doesn’t end with an endpoint; combine multiple capabilities together for intriguing insights and deeper functionality Basis Technology  prides itself on being an agile and responsive organization that always gives the customer our ear. Not surprisingly, one of the most common requests we hear is for “more”: more endpoints, more languages, more capabilities. […]