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Leading E-Discovery Providers Choose
Basis Technology for Text Processing and Analysis of Multilingual ESI

—  IPRO, Clearwell, and Daticon EED use Rosette Linguistics Platform to vet foreign language documents in their
e-Discovery solutions  —

Cambridge, Massachusetts — June 23, 2009: E-Discovery solution leaders – including IPRO, Clearwell Systems and Daticon EED – have integrated Basis Technology's Rosette Linguistics Platform (RLP) to add multilingual document processing to their e-discovery applications. Legal customers benefit from international language support features such as automatic language identification, Unicode compliance, multiple language search, entity extraction, and name translation and matching across languages and scripts.

“Litigation is a worldwide concern, and litigation support has to work with electronically stored information (ESI) that originates in many countries written in many languages. Even mid-sized companies are ‘multinationals’ now and legal discovery teams need to be equally at ease handling documents in different formats as well as different languages,” said Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, Search and Discovery Technologies of IDC.
“E-Discovery vendors are following their customers’ needs by adding features to triage and analyze documents from these various sources.”

“Processing and culling down thousands of documents in multiple languages to the few relevant ones is no longer an unusual request in litigation discovery,” said Nick Patience, Research Director, Information Management at The 451 Group. “With the recent upheaval within the linguistic technology market, Basis Technology has emerged as the go-to provider of multilingual solutions for e-Discovery solution providers.”

Basis Technology’s Rosette Linguistics Platform (RLP) offers e-Discovery platforms with these multilingual features:

  • High-speed, automated language identification of documents in 55 languages
  • Multilingual text analysis, enabling keyword and advanced search in over 20 languages
  • Identifying names of people, places and other significant entities, without a pre-defined list of the entities ahead of time
  • Matching names of people between lists and documents, even when written differently or in different languages and writing systems
  • Translating names from their native writing system into English

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for text analytics, information retrieval, and name resolution in many languages. The company’s Rosette® Linguistics Platform is a widely adopted suite of interoperable components that delivers high-performance results to search, business intelligence, e-Discovery, and many other enterprise applications. Basis Technology is on the forefront of applied natural language processing solutions using a combination of statistical modeling, expert rules and corpus-derived data.

Leading software vendors, content providers, financial institutions, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, name matching, name translation, and entity extraction. Our products and services are used by over 250 major firms, including Cisco, EMC, Endeca, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Symantec. Our text analysis products are widely used in the U.S. defense and intelligence industry by such firms as CACI, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, and SRI. We are also the top provider of multilingual search technology to web search engines, such as AOL, Ask.com, Google, Windows Live, and Yahoo!

Company headquarters are in Cambridge, MA, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.BasisTech.com or call 800-697-2062.