Dear Colleague,

If your job involves analysis of foreign language documents, exploitation of digital media, or intelligence collection from open sources, then you’re probably familiar with human language technology. But did you also know that Basis Technology’s HLT conference—now in its seventh year—is a free resource for government professionals staying current in the latest developments in this field?

You’re invited to join us on Thursday, October 4, at the Westfields Marriott Conference Center in Chantilly, VA, for the Human Language Technology Conference 2012. Attend a full day of talks, demonstrations, and case studies to learn how HLT is intersecting with social media, big data, and cloud computing.

Here’s a sampling of the presentations planned for this year’s conference:

• Cloud-scale name matching against distributed watch lists
• High-volume, high-accuracy name translation
• Hosting open-source search in the cloud
• Beyond entity extraction—clustering, co-referencing, relationships
• Exploiting crowd-sourced linguistic resources
• Combining text analytics with temporal analytics

Update your knowledge on key topics which you’ve come to value from our past conferences:

• New transliteration standards for the intelligence community
• Desktop and workgroup tools for translator and linguist productivity
• Arabic and Persian chat translation
• MEDEX, CELLEX, and SIGINT applications
• HUMINT reporting applications
• OSINT collection and analysis

And stay current with the latest developments in Basis Technology’s products—Rosette, Highlight, and Odyssey—now available in 40 languages!

This conference is provided at no charge to federal, state, and local government employees. Commercial, academic, and FFRDC participants are also welcome; however, a conference fee will apply. For more information, write to conference@basistech.com, or call +1-617-386-2090. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely,

Carl Hoffman Chief Executive Officer Basis Technology Corp.