Update On Basis Technology And ODNI And DIA Partnership

November 22, 2013

Basis Technology, a multilingual search and text analytics company, and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) partnered up not too long ago. Global News Wire updates us on where the partnership has taken the three organizations in the article, “Basis Technology Releases Highlight 6.0 In Continued Partnership With ODNi And DIA.” Basis Technology has added key enhancements to Highlight, its flagship tool for Intelligence Community (IC) linguists and analysts to standardize named entities in documents. The DIA and ODNI will use Highlight to overcome issues related to transliterating foreign names and places into IC standards.

Small differences in names and places leads to thousands of errors and IC personnel need to eliminate them to save time and resources. Highlight simplifies the process and reduces the number of mistakes and inconsistencies.

The article states:

” ‘The increased data collection of both domestic and foreign information has created a very critical need for quick and accurate text analysis,’ said Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology. ‘Our ongoing work with the ODNI and DIA has uniquely positioned us to provide the Intelligence Community with a proven solution that takes the guesswork out of translators jobs and provides the end user with the actionable intelligence to meet their mission critical needs. We look forward to continuing this relationship and providing our customers with the innovative text analytics and linguistic solutions they have come to expect from Basis Technology.’ “

Is this a form of predictive analytics? Highlight must really come in handy when translating Japanese and Chinese characters when the slightest difference in the wording or tonality of a sentence can change a word’s entire meaning.

Whitney Grace, November 22, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Analytics, News

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