Tag: Natural Language Processing

NLP is a subcategory of AI that focuses on computationally handling problems related to human languages. There are a large variety of NLP applications. Some are used to extract quantities, entities, or insights from large datasets. For instance, NLP helps search engines understand language and deliver meaningful search results and financial institutions sift through large numbers of financial documents to find keyphrases or concepts. Others are used to transform raw information into prose. Some major newspapers now use natural language generation to produce short articles. These are just a few examples of how NLP is used.

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Applying NLP to Mental Health Diagnosis

Computational tools that process human language can detect the disordered speech patterns associated with mental illness, aiding clinicians in their diagnoses and treatment plans. 

FinCrime in Focus: Challenges in Screening

We hosted a discussion between Jeanne Le Garrec, Regional Director, ASEAN region at Basis Technology and Hwee Kun Ho, Head of Sales, APAC at Napier to discuss challenges in screening for financial crime compliance and share Jeanne’s vast experience. In this episode of FinCrime in Focus: Challenges in Screening, we focused on screening challenges: their causes, and how to overcome these with […]

Rosette 1.17.0 Release: Hebrew Name Translation, French Semantic Similarity, Robust Address Matching

Recent Rosette® Cloud and Enterprise releases (1.17.0, 1.16.1) bring expanded language coverage to name translation and semantic similarity, and ease of use to the address matching capability within Rosette Name Indexer. We have also made improvements to Arabic-Arabic and Arabic-English name matching, as well as better morphological analysis in various languages. Hebrew name translation Name […]

Webinar Recording: Deep Learning’s Impact on NLP

In December 2018, our Chief Scientist Kfir Bar presented a 30-minute webinar about: How deep learning is impacting NLP Pros and cons of deep learning for NLP Factors to consider when deciding whether or not to jump into deep learning Download the slides The body of the talk begins at 2:32.

What Is AI? Complex Technology in Plain English: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part I

This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem. Setting up the rest of the series, this week’s blog post provides clear explanations of core AI technology and terminology. Artificial Intelligence, Explained There’s a […]

Rosette Cloud 1.11: New Entity Types, Hungarian Names, and Cross Language Semantics

We’re thrilled to announce the latest version of Rosette (1.11). It’s a big one — lots of exciting new features, enhancements, and improvements. We hope you’ll check it out! TL; DR check the release notes. Entities: Enhanced Extraction and Linking with New Types Rosette Entity Extraction & Linking now recognizes 700 new classes of entities […]

Can 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 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury. One person on that list is Chabaane Ben Mohamed al-Trabelsi*, a Tunisian […]

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 talk. What is SEARCH? We all know what search is, at least we think we do. Search is this box. You type […]