Basis Technology Corporation

Specialties

Basis Technology provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from unstructured text in Asian, European, and Middle Eastern languages. We help technology companies and government organizations improve the accuracy of information retrieval, text mining, and other applications through advanced linguistics.

History

Established in 1995.

Our mission is to improve the process of extracting meaningful intelligence from unstructured multilingual text by developing the industry’s best linguistics software. Since our founding in 1995, our products and services have been used by over two hundred major firms, including Ama​zon​.com, Dassault Systems, EMC, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-​Packard, Microsoft, Oracle, and governments around the world. Our language analysis software is widely used in the U.S. defense and intelligence industry by firms such as BBN, CACI, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman, and SAIC. We’re also the top provider of Asian linguistic technology to web search engines, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo!

Meet the Manager

Carl H.

Manager

Carl founded Basis Technology in 1995 to help American companies enter Asian markets. In 1999, the company shipped its first products for website internationalization, enabling Lycos and Google to become the first search engines capable of cataloging the web in both Asian and European languages. In 2003, the company began development of a comprehensive text analytics platform. Today, Basis Technology is recognized as the leading provider of components for information retrieval, entity extraction, and entity resolution in many languages.