CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Basis Technology, the global leader in multilingual search and text analytics, is proud to sponsor the Fresh Data Boston conference on Unlocking Value with Text Analytics, Thursday, July 17, at District Hall in Boston. This conference will bring together leaders in health care, finance, e-discovery, and analytics for engaging talks and a panel discussion on how text analytics and unstructured data mining are being applied to answer important questions in their fields.
"Basis Technology is excited to present our thoughts on extracting meaningful insights from unstructured text, with Big Text Analytics," said Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology. "Boston has a vibrant analytics community and we're looking forward to joining the conversation with local luminaries."
About "Unlocking Value with Text Analytics"
The exponential growth of unstructured text offers organizations the opportunity to extract insights of real business value. However, unlocking this potential requires the right technology and experience. Fresh Data Boston is hosting an evening of interactive discussions with technology and industry experts who will offer their real-world experiences in deriving business value from unstructured "Big Text". The event will feature presentations by Basis Technology and RapidMiner, and an interactive discussion with business leaders from the fields of finance, health care, consumer sentiment and eDiscovery.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:30pm Registration and Networking Cocktails/Appetizers
6:30 - 6:35pm Introducing Fresh Data Boston -Sheamus McGovern
6:35 - 6:50pm Public Health Surveillance - John Brownstein | Boston Children's Hospital
6:55 - 7:10pm Turning Text into Prediction - Ingo Mierswa | RapidMiner
7:15 - 7:30pm Listening to the Customer - Benson Margulies | Basis Technology
7:30 - 7:50pm Networking Stretch
7:50 - 8:30pm Panel Discussion - Industry Experts on Real-World Analytics
8:30 - 9:00ish Networking Cocktail Reception
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology develops innovative products and solutions incorporating multilingual text analytics and digital forensics. Our Rosette® linguistics platform provides morphological analysis, entity extraction, name matching, name translation, and chat translation, yielding useful information from unstructured data in such fields as information retrieval, government intelligence, eDiscovery, and financial compliance. The digital forensics team pioneers better, faster, and cheaper techniques to extract forensic evidence, keeping government and law enforcement ahead of the exponential growth of data storage volumes.
Our products and services are used by over 250 major organizations, including Amazon.com, Cisco, EMC, Exalead/Dassault, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Microsoft, NetBase, Oracle, Symantec, and governments worldwide. Learn more at www.basistech.com or call +1-617-386-2090.