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Computer
Assisted Name Resolution This talk discusses the constraints
the U.S. government faces with a limited number of linguists for performing
translations coupled with each agency’s requirements for using different
transliteration standards for converting of names from Arabic and Farsi. It then
summarizes how Basis Technology’s Highlight Language Analysis Suite is able to
address these issues of providing good quality translation of names quickly and
economically.
Presentation by Brian Roberson at the Association of Machine
Translation in the Americas on November 1, 2010.
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More than a
Name: Evidence for Identity Resolution In the worlds of
intelligence analysis and law enforcement, the allowable margin of error between
fingering a suspected terrorist and a case of mistaken identity is unforgivingly
small. While a name is a starting point for identification, it is rarely
sufficient for complete unambiguity Other personal attributes from biographic
(e.g., nationality) to biometric (e.g., DNA); from permanent (e.g., date of
birth) to temporary (e.g., employer), fill in the complete picture of an
“identity.” This talk explores such evidences for identity and the means by
which they can be combined to narrow a large list of candidates to a
handful.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference in Chantilly, VA on June 8-9, 2010
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Best Practices
for Making Your Name Search Cross-Lingual Finding the few
emails among thousands that mention a specific person or concept may provide a
needed missing link, but what if the emails are in a language you don’t speak?
This language barrier can be bridged by building a cross-lingual search system.
Doing so involves trading off properties like implementation ease, accuracy, and
speed. This talk will explore some specific options to tackle these trade-offs
as well as other challenges of enabling cross-lingual search. This tutorial is
targeted at engineers and developers or those who understand the basics of how a
search engine works.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference in Chantilly, VA on June 8-9, 2010
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New
Developments in Name Analysis When searching documents or
analyzing text, often the most critical pieces of information are the names of
people, places, and organizations. But how can you be sure that one name is the
same as another, especially if it’s written in a different language or appears
as some variant form? What if you want to translate that name into a language
you can recognize and process? This presentation reviews the overall view of
name relationships and demonstrates the use of Basis Technology’s products to
navigate those relationships.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference on June 8, 2009.
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Making
Your Name Search Cross-Lingual Finding the few emails among
thousands that mention a specific person or concept may provide a needed missing
link, but what if the emails are in a language you don’t speak? This language
barrier can be bridged by making a search system cross-lingual. Doing so
involves trading off properties like implementation ease, accuracy, and speed.
This presentation will explore some specific options to tackle these trade-offs
as well as other challenges of enabling cross-lingual search.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference on June 8, 2009.
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Global Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: Challenges and Solutions
This presentation will overview how a financial organization can comply
with international sanctions programs when their customer names are in one
language and the sanctions list is in another. These challenges are highlighted
along with practical solutions for handling customer names in multiple
languages, including Basis Technology’s Rosette Name Indexer and Rosette Name
Translator.
Presentation by Steve Kearns at Basis Technology’s Government
Users Conference on June 9, 2009.
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Everything You’ve Ever Needed to Do with Names This
presentation will explore challenges of multilingual name resolution, retrieval,
and translation. It will also demonstrate Basis Technology’s products which
enable rapid identification of names in multiple languages and automatic,
high-accuracy translation of those names into English.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference in College Park, MD on May 20, 2008.
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Linguistic
Considerations of Identity Resolution This presentation will
consider metrics and data for evaluating identity resolution and retrieval
systems. It also explores the linguistic challenges these systems
face.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference in College Park, MD on May 20, 2008.
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Building
Application with Rosette Name Indexer and Rosette Name Translator
This presentation will demonstrate how to rapidly construct an application
which extracts names from foreign language documents, indexes those names, and
automatically generates a high-quality translation into English according to the
applicable agency transliteration standard. Real–world examples are presented in
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Pashto, Farsi (Persian), and Russian, for a total of
six scripts and nine languages.
Presentation by Benson Margulies at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference in College Park, MD on May 20, 2008.
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Different Script, Same Name: Tools for Matching and Translation
This presentation explains how to build multilingual name search and
translation capabilities into your application by leveraging innovative
products.
Presentation by David Murgatroyd at Basis Technology’s
Government Users Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 7, 2007.