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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology Information access Digital forensics Transliteration |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States |
Area served | Americas Europe Asia |
Key people | Carl Hoffman (CEO, Co-Founder) Steven Cohen (EVP/COO, Co-Founder) Brian Carrier (CTO and GM Cyber Forensics) Simson Garfinkel (Chief Scientist) Junichi Hasegawa (VP Asia) |
| Products | KonaSearch Cyber Triage Autopsy Sleuth Kit |
| Subsidiaries | BasisTech GK |
| Website | http://www.basistech.com http://www.konasearch.com http://www.autopsy.com http://www.cybertriage.com |
BasisTech is a software company specializing in applying artificial intelligence techniques to understanding documents and unstructured data written in different languages. It has headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts with a subsidiary office in Tokyo. Its legal name is BasisTech LLC.
The company was founded in 1995 by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to use artificial intelligence techniques for natural language processing to help computer systems understand written human language. Its software focuses on analyzing freeform text so that applications can do a better job understanding the meaning of the words. For example, their software can identify tokens, part-of-speech, and lemmas.[1] The tools can also identify different forms of names and phrases. The name of someone, say Albert P. Jones for instance, can appear in many different ways. Some texts will call him "Al Jones", others "Mr. Jones" and others "Albert Paul Jons".[2]
Their software also performs entity extraction, that is finding words which refer to people, places, and organizations from text for uses such as due diligence, intelligence and metadata tagging.[3]
The company is best known for its Rosette product which uses Natural Language Processing techniques to improve information retrieval, text mining, search engines and other applications. The tool is used to enable search engines to search in multiple languages, [4] and match identities and dates.[5] Rosette was sold to Babel Street in 2022.[6]
BasisTech software is also used by forensic analysts to search through files for words, tokens, phrases or numbers that may be important to investigators,[7] as well as provide software (Cyber Triage) that helps organizations respond to cyberattacks.[8]
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