Technology for automatic identification of web sources to monitor depending on your topics of interest.
"Extend business intelligence with big data"
Web scraping in the cloud. Transforms mostly unstructured web data into a structured data feed.
include web data with your own data, hosted by them or in the cloud.
free data provision about trends etc. Not business focused.
Databases available on a variety of topics.
Provides strategic market research enterprise portals, market intelligence content, and search technology to global enterprises.
A cloud-based big data platform that enables companies to personalize online, offline and mobile marketing campaigns with rich and actionable information about targeted audiences.
GNIP sell enhanced social media data streams
Datasift provide social media data and a variety of processing provisions.
SemanticMining For any given body of text � be it from social media, community conversations or any other source � it performs a semantic text analysis, reducing complexity by generating theme clusters and visual reports.
data extraction, semantic analysis, enrichment. Products: Syllabs Content Generator
Originated at Lockheed Martin, and could be used for business intelligence or equally, counterintelligence and law enforcement.
Semantically-informed search and discovery software tools.
named entity recognition and content enrichment
ClearForest extracts free text for use within analytics applications and business intelligence systems. ClearForest Tags' open and flexible platform supports statistical, structural and semantic tagging as well as custom taggers, industry and custom taxonomies, and information agents. Part of Thomson Reuter, related to Calais.
Sounds like business intelligence. Will be a web application but is currently in closed beta.
Business solutions: earch engines for multiple languages; information retrieval (Concord); summarisation solutions as part of products such as Monitor Suite, ResultsPlus, WestlawNext and Litigator.
TEMIS develops and markets corporate Text Mining solutions. Its Luxid tool enables content enrichment, management and publishing.
machine learning and text classification
KEEL is an abbreviation for Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning. It is based on Java and it can assess the behaviour of evolutionary algorithms used for data mining related problems, among others clustering, regression or classification. KEEL was also designed for research and educational purposes.
"KantanMT provides a sophisticated and powerful Machine Translation solution in an easy-to-use package. Our users do not need any technical skills or IT support and there are no special hardware or software requirements. Members can logon and build customized Machine Translation engines immediately on the KantanMT.com platform."
Appinions is an opinion-powered influence marketing platform specifically designed to give brands the ability to measure and ignite contextual influence.
"General Sentiment is a social analytics company that delivers insights that change the way brands make product and marketing decisions. Fueled by big data natural language processing and text analytics, we interpret millions of online conversations and discover actionable insights. By measuring consumer sentiment surrounding product launches, advertising campaigns, potential issues and current events we identify actions and processes that significantly impact brand value and drive industry trends."
TwelveFold's Spectrum tool performs targeted advertising through topic trending, summarization and matching.
Brand monitoring & word of mouth measurement services. On-demand tools that help businesses to identify, measure, better understand and act on consumer attitudes and opinions of their brands and their competitors brands to increase market share and profits.
Dialego SparkStream continuously extracts ideas from Social Media.
Web content aggregation, media analysis for business. Now owned by LexisNexis.
SproutLoop LLC consulting specializes in leveraging technology to grow business.
"Iconic Translation Machines Ltd. is a provider of high-quality cloud-based Machine Translation solutions for the Language Services industry that have been domain-adapted to specific technical areas."
Specific solutions such as "MT software as a service - project-based as well as subscription to MT services", "Custom-built MT - have your own engine developed" and "CrossLang Gateway - integrated Machine Translation on demand"
Business products sentiment analysis and search for enriched data. Tracks influence and sentiment on social media.
a social media analytics tool, TrendingTarget, to reveal the full breadth of topics that a target audience is discussing online in real time.
software suite to support traditional and social media monitoring.
Business intelligence through social media and press monitoring.
business intelligence through social media and press monitoring
business intelligence through social media
"Clarabridge's text mining software transforms text into actionable insight to improve market research, customer care, product development, quality assurance and risk management." Text mining, search, business intelligence and customer feedback.
Social listening, text analytics, and natural language processing for customer service, marketing, and case management solutions. Enrichment of social content by detecting language, topic, taxonomy and sentiment to deliver actionable social insight and intelligence.
Zillabyte is a cloud platform for data analysis. Number crunching for sales and marketing.
Growth strategy provision leveraging custom curated consumer data from online communities.
Nielsen Online's BuzzMetrics services deliver trusted brand metrics, meaningful consumer insights and real-time market intelligence to help clients apply the power of consumer-generated media (CGM) to their businesses.
fairly extensive business analytics software and services. SAS Text Miner incorporates advanced linguistic capabilities within the core data mining solution of SAS Enterprise Miner. Consolidating structured (quantitative) data analysis with unstructured (free-form text) provides complete views and meaningful insights within an integrated predictive modeling environment.
Services for social media management and analytics: consumer reach and reputation analysis on a community platform
Carma distills traditional and social media analysis into what is most salient, finding pieces of actionable data to shape and validate business strategy.
CARMA places clients' media performance in context, demonstrating trends over time.
provides Integrated Cloud Service Management for organizations
Information extraction. applies Text and Sentiment Analysis to tweets, facebook posts, surveys, reviews or enterprise content.
Calais is a service by Thomson Reuters that automatically extracts semantic information from web pages in a format that can be used on the semantic web.
I2E on demand is the same thing in the cloud.
Data mining in large datasets: topic modeling, duplicate detection, and other information retrieval tasks involving users in an active learning loop.
Acapela provides text-to-speech capabilities for languages: "voice as a service".
Eptica Lingway privides linguistic and semantic analysis services for human resource and customer relations management
Factiva (a Dow Jones company) "Factiva helps making business decisions faster with access to thousands of premium news and information sources, all in one place." Search and alerting.
Product search, navigation and recommendation engine.
Content enrichment, information searching, data discovery, and navigation within data and documents.
"With Microsoft Translator Hub you can build your own machine translation system using your preferred terminology and style specific to your industry, linguistic, domain, or organizational needs. You can use this system via the Microsoft Translator API in your own applications, in 3rd party applications, your website, the Bing Translator Widget, and a community of collaborators."
Summify creates a daily summary of the most relevant news from clients' social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile. Now acquired by Twitter.
a news aggregator Android app; real time updates.
Toluna is about market research, data collection, reporting and visualization. Toluna introduced the world�s largest social voting community.
Crowd sourcing for categorisation, search relevance, content generation, listing verification and enrichment, attribute collection, image moderation, sentiment analysis and transcription.
Klout is a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rank its users according to online social influence via the "Klout Score", which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. Now acquired by Lithium.
Own several new media companies including SocialFlow, Vibe and Chartbeat.
SocialFlow is a social media optimization platform for leading brands and publishers. The company uses the Twitter firehose, click data derived from its proprietary link proxy, along with proprietary algorithms, to optimize the delivery of messages on social networks.
Applying advanced text analysis, computer vision and data storage services to huge volumes of unstructured data.
"Natural Language Interaction (NLI), a technology that allows people to converse with computers, smartphones, and other electronic devices in a human-like and intelligent manner".
Natural Language Understanding API platform.
Provides social analytics and engagement applications for social customer relationship management. Text Analytics solutions enable computers to understand and process free-form text.
Build sentiment analysis applications for embedded deployment.
CereProc creates text-to-speech products that produce synthetic voices with character and personality.
Silvia is an AI platform for building smart, conversational applications.
develops tech oriented on ecommerce sites and the process by which customers navigate such sites.
"Powering intelligent voice interfaces for any app, device, or website"
"increases the value and reach of news publisher's content through patented fact categorization and fact filtering".
provides speech tech to build voice-enabled solutions: "Recognizing that speech is the next essential function of mobile and consumer devices, Fluential focuses on optimizing the voice experience with multimodal interactions that both simplify and enhance consumers’ lives."
develops social media analytics based on word-sense disambiguation.
Jibbigo is a voice translation app that you can use online or offline. Translate your speech or text into 20+ languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese. Acquired by Facebook.
"provides enterprise and hosted text analytics software to transform unstructured text into structured data. The software extracts entities, sentiment, quotes, opinions, and themes from text".
a speech-based search company targeting mobile phone applications.
Managing the customer experience on your website. Marketers can create and launch automated programs to understand and address real needs and issues that businesses experience while customers navigating their website.
provides a suite of cloud-backed text-to-speech applications.
an Android app that answers speech and text queries.
headquartered in Northern Ireland and develops speech-based mobile apps for customer relations.
a customer relations company providing knowledge solutions for customer-facing websites and contact centers.
Innovative producrs for data analysis and organization of R&D process.
Open Source Web Data Extraction tool written in Java.
Very widely used text engineering platform. GATE provides a general offset-oriented development/deployment environment/framework and rule-based tools to run within that framework. Many other GATE plugins have been contributed by the GATE team and third parties.
Unstructured Information Management Architecture. An OASIS standard[3] as of March 2009, UIMA performs content analytics through l anguage analysis. Other general frameworks used for natural language processing include the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK).
Java NLP toolkit for tokenization, sentence detection and named entity recognition.
RapidMiner offers data integration and analysis, analytical ETL and reporting combined in a community edition or enterprise edition. It comes with a graphical user interface for designing analysis processes. The solution offers a meta data transformation, which allows inspecting for errors during design time.
KNIME [naim] is a user-friendly graphical workbench for the entire analysis process. The Konstanz Information Miner offers data access, initial investigation, data transformation, predictive analyses and reporting tool with a user-friendly graphical interface. They offer an open-source tool and commercial products. The open integration platform offers over 1.000 modules. KNIME is also the open source data analytics platform continuously ranked No. 1 in customer satisfaction.
ABNER is a statistical named entity recognizer. CRF-based, includes Java API.
Data Extracting SDK allows you to extract different data from text or web sources, analyze text content, extract different information and write your own data mining & extracting applications and services.
Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Components for machine learning. Add-ons for bioinformatics and text mining.
data mining through visual programming or python
An open source language analysis tool suite.
Ellogon is a multi-lingual, cross-platform, general-purpose language engineering environment, developed in order to aid both researchers who are doing research in computational linguistics, as well as companies who produce and deliver language engineering systems. Ellogon as a language engineering platform offers an extensive set of facilities, including tools for processing and visualising textual/HTML/XML data and associated linguistic information, support for lexical resources (like creating and embedding lexicons), tools for creating annotated corpora, accessing databases, comparing annotated data, or transforming linguistic information into vectors for use with various machine learning algorithms.
NLP tool suite, mainly for UIMA within the biomedical domain.
MinorThird is an SDK/API for machine learning and information extraction, primarily on text data. A range of algorithms are included and is integrated tightly with the visualization tools for manual and automatic annotation of text.
api for machine learning and information extraction
MorphAdorner provides methods for adorning text with standard spellings, parts of speech and lemmata. MorphAdorner also provides facilities for tokenizing text, recognizing sentence boundaries, and extracting names and places.
A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. NLTK contains modules for heuristic and statistical tagging (including the Brill tagger) and chunking, full parsing (CFG), and clustering (including K-means and EM).
Text Engineering Software Laboratory: a virtual research environment for text engineering.
virtual research environment for text engineering
"A machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services. OpenNLP also includes maximum entropy and perceptron based machine learning."
toolkit for the processing of natural language text
"a morphological analysis system. It can segment and tokenize Japanese text (which seldom uses spacing character). It also generates many additional information (pronunciation, semantic information and more) during the process."
The Dragon Toolkit is a Java-based development package for academic use in information retrieval (IR) and text mining (TM, including text classification, text clustering, text summarization, and topic modeling).
Mahout by Apache offers algorithms to build machine-learning libraries that can scale to reasonable large data sets. It is especially made for classification, clustering and batch-base collaborative filtering that run on Hadoop. Non-Hadoop and single-node contribution can also be used and the core libraries are optimized also for non-distributed algorithms.
MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
WEKA stands for �Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis� and it is a collection of machine-learning algorithms in order to solve data mining problems. It is written in Java and thus runs on almost any modern computing platform. It supports different data mining tasks such as clustering, data pre-processing, regression, classification, feature selection as well as visualization.
R is a well supported, open source, command line driven, statistics package.
End-to-end text and web processing solutions from the GATE family (www.gate.ac.uk) running on cloud computing infrastructures.
Open marketplace for pay-as-you-go, cloud-based extraction resources and services, in multiple languages. In addition, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model reduces the complexity of deployment, maintenance, customisation and sharing of text processing resources and services, making them affordable to SMEs � both end users and resource providers.
Mahout is another project by Apache. It offers algorithms to build machine-learning libraries that can scale to reasonable large data sets. It is especially made for classification, clustering and batch-base collaborative filtering that run on Hadoop. Non-Hadoop and single-node contribution can also be used and the core libraries are optimized also for non-distributed algorithms.
OpenStack is a free and open-source cloud computing software platform.[2] Users primarily deploy it as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center�which users manage through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API. OpenStack.org released it under the terms of the Apache License.
"Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform."
Hadoop is the most well-known big data open source tool around at the moment. It supports data-intensive distributed applications that can run simultaneously on large clusters of normal, commodity, hardware. It is licensed under the Apache v2 license. A Hadoop network is reliable and extremely scalable and it works according to the computational model MapReduce. Hadoop is written in the Java programming language and is used by a global community of distributors.
Deploy Google App Engine applications on any cloud, public or private.
Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) originally developed by VMware and now owned by Pivotal Software - a joint venture by EMC, VMware and General Electric.
CloudSNAP is a Cloud computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) system for transparent web applications deployment into a structured P2P network
Eucalyptus is a set of web services, modeled after and compatible with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Written mostly in Java, Eucalyptus integrates components from over 100 open source projects, tested and packaged into a single easy-to-install and easy-to-use product.
a suite of open-source cloud computing system software developed by Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
nfrastructure-as-a-Service implementation specifically targeting features of interest to the scientific community.
A cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures.
Togaware has developed the �R Analytical Tool To Learn Easy� also known as Rattle. This is a graphical user interface for data mining using the R language. It can present visual and statistical summaries of data, give a graphical representation of the performance of models and it can score new datasets.
Also a Java based data mining. It includes 51 different algorithms among others for sequential pattern and or rule mining, frequent itemset mining, clustering and association rule mining. The source code of each algorithm can be combined with other Java programs. It can be used with an interface or from the command line.
Apache Drill is part of the Apache Incubator (http://incubator.apache.org/) and it offers a distributed system to perform interactive analyses of large-scale datasets that are based on Dremel. At the moment it is still incubating but the goals is to eventually become a massive scalable platform that can process petabytes of data in seconds over up to 10.000 servers.
Chukwa an incubator under Apache and is built on top of a MapReduce framework as well as the Hadoop Distributed File System. It therefore is scalable and robust. It comes included with a powerful and flexible toolkit for monitoring, analysing and displaying results to make best use of big data.
Flume, also an Apache product, is an efficient and distribute system for collecting, aggregating and moving massive amounts of log data. The objective of Flume is to move data between applications and Hadoop. Its architecture is simple and based on streaming data flows. It is fault tolerant and offers the possibility for online analytic applications.
Sqoop, another Apache license product, is developed to move bulk data between Hadoop and structured data stores effectively. When using Sqoop this process is automatic for most of it. Sqoop uses MapReduce to import and export data, which provides fault tolerance as well as parallel operation.
Corona is a scheduling framework developed by Facebook to separate cluster resource management from job co�rdination. It replaces the Hadoop MapReduce scheduling framework at Facebook, as they had reached the limits of Hadoop MapReduce because of vast quantities of data that Facebook has to deal with. A Corona MapReduce cluster consists of a cluster manager, a Corona Job tracker and a Proxy Job tracker. Facebook also developed an open source tool of it and it is dubbed the next version of MapReduce.
Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It supports persistent messaging, high-throughput and parallel data load into Hadoop. It can handle and process all activity stream data (views, searches etc.). Current applications include LinkedIn to power LinkedIn Newsfeed and LinkedIn Today, Twitter, Foursquare and many others. You can view the possible application on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Powered+By
ThinkUp is an online application that allows users to capture all activity on social networks. It can show users graphs and charts in one dashboard in order to understand the activity in a social network. Conversations can be shown in rich visualizations. It is easy to use and install and only thing that is needed is a website able to deal with PHP
Dremel is an interactive ad-hoc query system, which is developed by Google. It offers analyses of read-only nested data. The system is extremely scalable; to 1000s of PCs and petabytes of data. It can process a collection of queries over massive, trillion-row, tables in just a matter of seconds by combining multi-level execution trees and columnar data layout. In the process of being merged with Drill.
Greenplum HD allows users to start with big data analytics without the need to built an entire new project. Greenplum HD is offered as software or can be used in a pre-configured Data Computing Appliance Module. IT exists of a complete data analysis platform and it combines Hadoop and Greenplum database into a single Data Computing Appliance.
Hortonworks is a pure open source Hadoop Distribution system. It is built on top of Hadoop and it allows users to capture, process and share data at any scale and in any format in a simple and cost-effective manner. Apache Hadoop is a core component of the Hortonworks architecture.
Ikanow focuses on developing products to enable uninhibited fusion and analysis of Big Data using open source technology. They have created an open source analytics platform.
SAMOA is a platform for mining on big data streams. It is a distributed streaming machine learning (ML) framework that contains a programing abstraction for distributed streaming ML algorithms.
Storm, which is now owned by Twitter, is a real-time distributed computation system. It works the same way as Hadoop provides batch processing as it uses a set of general primitives for performing real-time analyses. Storm is easy to use and it works with any programming language. It is very scalable and fault-tolerant.
"SmartMATE, by Capita, is a revolutionary, one-stop, machine assisted translation platform, combining the best of Translation Memory, Terminology and Machine Translation technologies, to produce high quality automated translations. Accessible through the fully managed, secure MT offering with dedicated access to Capita's experienced Language Technology team, or instantly online through the state of the art Capita Self-Serve MT software."
"Language Studio� is Asia Online's flagship suite of products for near-human quality automated translation."
"Spin-out from the research team at University of Alicante that developed the Apertium rule-based MT platform." The company specialises in rule-based and hybrid MT especially for Romance languages.
"PangeaMT is Pangeanic's own, independent translation technology division with a clear focus on customized, domain-specific Machine Translation (MT)", "the first language service provider to make commercial use of Moses in EU's Framework development program euromatrixplus.net". Focus on EU languages, Chinese and Japanese.
"Lingenio GmbH is the producer of the machine translation system translate and the innovative software suite translateDict". Focus on Gan-English.
"MorphoLogic offers both desktop machine translation programs and online services. The programs translate between English and Hungarian."
Specializes in developing custom machine translation systems that integrate customer terminology, boosting quality and accuracy. Extensive work on large-scale MT services for the public sector. Tilde has special expertise in building MT for complex, highly inflected languages, particularly the Scandinavian, Baltic, and Eastern/Central European languages.
Developer of Moses based statistical machine translation (SMT) applications.
Provider of MT and localization solutions
Development of translation and workflow technology
Talend has developed several big data software solutions, including Talend Open Studio for Big Data, which is a data integration tool supporting Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Hbase and Pig. The objective is to improve the efficiency of data integration job design through a graphical development environment. Next to open source tools, Talend also sells other commercial products.
Jaspersoft has developed several open source tools, among others a Reporting and Analytics server, which is a standalone and embeddable reporting server. The Open Source Java Reporting Library is a reporting engine that can analyse any kind of data and produce reports in any format. Jaspersoft ETL offers a data integration engine, powered by Talend. They claim it is the world�s most used business intelligence software.
SpagoBI is an open source business intelligence suite. It provides analytical capabilities that are supported by over 30 analytical and operational engines. It is very flexible and an easy deploying into existing IT infrastructure. The suite also includes solutions for innovative intelligence domain such as KPI�s, visual enquiries, real time BI and mobile BI.
Open source tool Pentaho is a big data tool focusing on data mining and reporting in order to create complex solutions for complex problems. Pentaho offers also paid products, but the open source tool is supported by a large community dedicated to delivering a complete, well integrated, and high quality suite of business intelligence software.
OpenI offers open source dashboards, interactive reporting, ETL, predictive modeling and more. Operating System: OS Independent. OpenI is a web-based OLAP reporting application. OpenI is an out-of-box solution for building and publishing reports from XMLA-compliant OLAP data sources.
"IBM LanguageWare is a natural language processing (NLP) technology developed by IBM, which allows applications to process natural language text. It comprises a set of Java libraries which provide a range of NLP functions: language identification, text segmentation/tokenization, normalization, entity and relationship extraction, and semantic analysis and disambiguation."
RapidMiner (formerly YALE) is a visual tool for data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. It is available in different flavours: a free GPL iicenced version (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapidminer/), and a commercial product. Enhance your products with adaptability and innovative analytical features. By now, thousands of applications of RapidMiner in more than 30 countries give their users a competitive edge.
Banner is a named entity recognition system, primarily intended for biomedical text. It is a machine-learning system based on conditional random fields and contains a wide survey of the best features in recent literature on biomedical named entity recognition (NER). BANNER is portable and is designed to maximize domain independence by not employing semantic features or rule-based processing steps. It is therefore useful to developers as an extensible NER implementation, to researchers as a standard for comparing innovative techniques, and to biologists requiring the ability to find novel entities in large amounts of text. BANNER is released under the Common Public License.
The Dragon Toolkit is a Java-based development package for academic use in information retrieval (IR) and text mining (TM, including text classification, text clustering, text summarization, and topic modeling). It is tailored for researchers who work on large-scale IR and TM and prefer Java programming;
The JULIE Lab here offers a comprehensive NLP tool suite for the application purposes of semantic search, information extraction and text mining. Most of our continuously expanding tool suite is based on machine learning methods and thus is domain- and language independent. One main feature is that we offer our tools both as stand-alone programs and wrapped within the UIMA framework. UIMA is an open-source , industrial-strength, scaleable and extensible platform for creating, integrating and deploying unstructured information management solutions from combinations of semantic analysis and search components.
"MaltParser is a system for data-driven dependency parsing, which can be used to induce a parsing model from treebank data and to parse new data using an induced model. MaltParser is developed by Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson and Joakim Nivre at Vaxjo University and Uppsala University, Sweden."
MontyLingua is a free for research use, commonsense-enriched, end-to-end natural language understander for English. Feed raw English text into MontyLingua, and the output will be a semantic interpretation of that text. Perfect for information retrieval and extraction, request processing, and question answering. From English sentences it extracts subject/verb/object tuples, extracts adjectives, noun phrases and verb phrases, and extracts people's names, places, events, dates and times, and other semantic information. MontyLingua makes traditionally difficult language processing tasks trivial!
The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) is the first publicly-funded text mining centre in the world. We provide text mining services in response to the requirements of the UK academic community. NaCTeM is operated by the University of Manchester with close collaboration with the University of Tokyo. On our website, you can find pointers to sources of information about text mining such as links to
Antelope (Advanced Natural Language Object-oriented Processing Environement) is a Natural Language Processing framework.
RASP is an NLP framework for robust accurate statistical parsing. It is trained using the British English corpora Susanne, LOB and BNC. RASP includes a tokenizer, part-of-speech tagger, hand-built FST-based morphological analyzer for English, grammar-based parser and parse reranking model. RASP is distributed only as an executable and licensed under its own non-commercial license.
This is many pieces of software with Java source licensed under the GNU General Public License. Tools include a part-of-speech tagger, text classifier, and PCFG parser. They no longer provide public access to their full JavaNLP toolkit.
"SRILM is a toolkit for building and applying statistical language models (LMs), primarily for use in speech recognition, statistical tagging and segmentation, and machine translation. It has been under development in the SRI Speech Technology and Research Laboratory since 1995. The toolkit has also greatly benefitted from its use and enhancements during the Johns Hopkins University/CLSP summer workshops in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2002." Licensed for academic and commercial use.
toolkit for building and applying statistical language model
TreeTagger is Helmud Schmidt's multilingual part-of-speech tagger.
Accenture is offering a sentiment monitoring service. Sentiment Monitoring Services searches preferred sites or newsgroups on the Internet for opinions. Using advanced language technologies, it interprets the sentiment of the text towards a specified product or service and then provides the user with an analysis of the results. Sentiment Monitoring Services combines a search agent and a perception engine to present users with an instant gauge of market perception of any feature, product, brand or organization. The natural language processor of the perception engine achieves an accuracy of approximately 90 percent compared to opinion ratings ranked manually.
Appen develops and markets speech and language technology products and services for major international information and communication companies and government organizations. Appen supplies a range of corpora, as well as tools for morphology and sentiment, and authorship.
Autonomy is the acknowledged leader in the rapidly growing area of Meaning Based Computing (MBC)." Meaning Based Computing not only uncovers, but also makes sense of, the 85% of enterprise information that is hidden to all other technologies including keyword search engines and relational databases. ... Meaning Based Computing enables organizations to automatically form a contextual understanding of people's interests, behavior and ongoing interaction with any type of information. ... Meaning Based Computing enables organizations to extract meaningful evidence from terabytes of email, documents, spreadsheets and other unstructured information.
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." Basis provides entity extraction in ten languages, does language identification, as well as Chinese and Japanese character-level support.
"Baynote delivers the industry-leading recommendation engine for products and content as well as UseRank social search for websites, intranets, and portals. Our Collective Intelligence Platform allows businesses to better understand their visitors' intent and context and automatically display the best content and products based on that insight."
BBN is the leader in the development of the new "Semantic Web," which will enable powerful searches and automated agents. BBN has been coordinating the work of 23 US and international research teams in conjunction with the World Wide Web Consortium and European Union collaborators to drive the transition to a semantic web."
Now part of Lexmark. Brainware helps the world's leading companies automatically extract, process, and retrieve data from any source" The technology behind Brainware's Intelligent Data Capture Distiller involves patented neural network-based classification as well as pattern recognition technologies and "fuzzy logic" to accurately sort documents and extract key data fields.
Merged with Appen. The Butler Hill Group was a streamlined network of linguists, computer scientists, language experts and research librarians with expertise in the natural language issues of computer technology. Past projects include machine translation, web search, lexicon evaluation, product usability studies, speech and product localization. Primarily provides services for corpus creation, evaluation and internationalization.
Cambridge Semantics empowers even non-technical users to leverage their familiarity with Excel (using Anzo for Excel) and the simplicity of our Web visualization and forms tool (Anzo on the Web) to rapidly develop solutions that connect critical enterprise data to an information fabric, making that data available to be combined, manipulated and shared at the moment it is needed."
Carrot Search offers professional installation, customization, clustering and text mining consulting services based on Open Source and proprietary software." They also offer Lingo3G, a Document Clustering Engine that can organize collections of text documents into clearly labeled thematic groups.
CodeRyte's natural language processing (NLP) technology reads medical reports and identifies accurate CPT and ICD codes from the text of a physician's documentation.
Connexor provides linguistic technologies and expertise to software houses and solution providers who tackle the challenge of how to derive useful information from unstructured digital text for different kinds of consumers and analysts. Connexor's Machinese software discovers the grammar and semantics of natural language. Machinese enriches text with linguistic markup: a uniform programmer's interface that enables use of text content in software applications and solutions.
Go Beyond Search... Access, Share and Deliver Intelligence and Awareness, not just Links. At Connotate we believe in working smarter, not harder." Utilizing patented machine learning algorithms, Agents are easily trained in minutes using a simple point-and-click process that requires NO programming. Agents can be deployed to do anything a human can do to mine, monitor, survey, collect, aggregate and normalize dynamic financial content deep within the Web or in the Enterprise into actionable business intelligence.
Stop searching, start doing." Content Analyst supplies a range of text analytics applications, including classification, named entity coreference, relationship discovery.
Crawdad Technologies, LLC provides software and services to analysts and research professionals who need to transform unstructured text into insight. Crawdad supplies Crawdad Desktop, which does scraping and some natural language processing involving classification and terminology extraction.
Digital Reasoning Systems develops software solutions that rapidly process and organize unstructured data into meaningful, relevant and quantifiable knowledge automatically. The core technology, embodied in Synthesys, can be used to provide for the automatic categorization, linking, retrieval and profiling of unstructured data."
Engenium is a pioneer in conceptual search technology that increases the effectiveness of electronic information retrieval. Unlike keyword searching that is limited to precisely matching the language of a given query, Engenium's Semetric concept search engines and integrated Autometric clustering engine analyze documents by meaning, concept and context. This yields better, faster search results --- uncovers information that otherwise would remain buried --- and enables organizations to work smarter. They seem to be applying latent semantic analysis (a kind of principal component analysis) to search and clustering.
Exalead CloudView is a one-of-a-kind search engine that collects unstructured and structured data from any source, in any format and in any volume, and automatically transforms it into a single structured information resource. This resource, which continually evolves and adapts as your data evolves, can be directly searched or used to develop innovative search-based applications (SBAs)."
Expert System is a "leading provider of Semantic Intelligence software to discover, classify, and understand information contained in unstructured text. Expert System technology, COGITO enables natural language processing. It leverages full semantic analysis to automatically understand the content from any textual document, including the retrieval of meanings and the comprehension of natural language.
"Extractiv is a new content provisioning service tha helps consumers "make sense" of large amounts of unstructured text. We use natural language processing in conjunction with one of the world best distributed computing platform in order to turn text into structured data that can be used in a variety of apps, such as sentiment tracking or semantic search."
"GrammarSoft ApS is a small company specializing in LanguageTechnology. Product offerings (for multiple European languages) include morphological analyzers, part-of-speech taggers, syntactic/dependency parsing, named-entity recognition, translation, and tools for teaching language and spell checking. They are a spinoff of the Visual Interactive Syntax Learning (VISL) project.
H5 builds classifiers for enterprise document management, especially in the legal domain.
Clustify groups related documents together into clusters and labels each cluster with keywords to tell you what it is about. It does both conceptual clustering and near-duplicate detection. This gives you a quick overview of the document set, and makes categorization of the documents more efficient and consistent. Clustify can process millions of documents on a desktop computer, bringing organization to large projects." Hot Neuron Similarity uses a proprietary algorithm to quantify the similarity of a pair of documents. This software is demonstrated on MagPortal.com where articles that are determined to be sufficiently similar are marked in a database."
"Infobright delivers a high performance analytic database platform that serves as a key underlying infrastructure for The Internet of Things. Specifically focused on enabling the rapid analysis of machine generated data, Infobright powers applications to perform interactive, complex queries."
Infogistics provides text-analysis, content extraction and document retrieval solutions across multiple areas of industry including HR, law enforcement, knowledge management and CRM.
Acquired by Oracle. InQuira helps companies deliver more effective customer service through their Web sites and contact centers. Their product features integrated capabilities for natural language search, knowledge base management, and analytics.
Provider of virtual agent technology solutions for the enterprise. Create profitable online conversations for customers. "Their platform and applications use big data and predictive analytics to understand customers and drive better service and sales results for large enterprises."
Irion Technologies specialises in building knowledge and information management systems that make use of language technology.
Just Systems' natural language processing technology enables semantic indexing and search.
LCC (Language Computer Corporation) has a suite of "Cicero" tools (CiceroLite, CiceroCustom) which do content extraction.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) are technologies that can extract data and information from free text documents for further processing. Language and Computing is unique in delivering this level of understanding through its integration of the world's largest medical ontology with sophisticated inguistic processing algorithms. acquired by Nuance
Lexicography MasterClass Ltd is a company specializing in lexicography and lexical computing. We run training courses, design and build language corpora, supply lexicographic software, and provide a complete project-management service for lexicographic projects, from conception to delivery.
Leximancer is a software tool that enables users to find meaning from text-based documents. It automatically identifies key themes, concepts and ideas from unstructured text with little or no guidance. Leximancer is focusing on word-based classification and automatic taxonomy/synonym generation.
Lextek International supplies advanced information retrieval and natural language processing technology." Our technologies are used in a wide variety of business solutions. These range from document management systems to custom web based applications.
With the strong technical accumulation and unique technical advantages, we can provide a comprehensive solution for users with searching and natural language understanding. Solutions based around the NLU SDK Modules, Text Mining Middleware, Web Application Engine, and others engine middlewares. It is convenient to build a variety of business applications with the flexible combination of multi-level and multi-angle."
"Based on its patent-pending proprietary technology, Linguastat offers a fully automated, web-based intelligence service that automates a variety of business tasks that require reading and analysis.
The AeroTextTM product suite provides a fast, agile information extraction system for developing knowledge-based content analysis applications. Possible applications include automatic database generation, routing, browsing, summarizing and searching. They do named entity extraction, coreference resolution, part-of-speech and phrase extraction, clustering, topic categorization, and event" extraction. They train by example and have special capabilities for reasoning about locations and times. They offer language support for English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanash and Indonesian.
Designed to help our customers address the basic problem of making their loosely structured information more valuable. We have created a set of products that attack the problem of discovering, understanding and acting on information that affects their business."
Limbix has designed a suite of enterprise and social solutions built on our unique ability to precisely determine the tone in text-based communication. Whether it's deeper social media analytics or a solution for improved enterprise communication you're looking for, you can bet we have a product offering available (or in development) to match. Our team is ready to work with you."
M*Modal's state-of-the-art Speech Understanding technology translates physician dictation in real-time into a searchable, structured document."
"Meaningful Machines develops, patents, and commercializes languagetechnologies based on a unique suite of methods that automate machine understanding of natural language. The company is developing technologies for use in machine translation (MT), text mining, machine learning, and other applications that benefit from machine understanding.
TextAnalyst will help you quickly summarize, efficiently navigate, and cluster documents in your textbase. Megaputer's TextAnalyst product extracts semantic networks, summarizes text using a balanced combination of linguistic and neural network investigation methods. Their notion of semantic network is the most important concepts from the text and the relations between these concepts weighted by their relative importance. They also use these semantic networks for clustering and exploration/search.
GDMs [Geographic Data Modules] make up the core of MetaCarta products and hosted solutions. A GDM is a knowledge base used to identify and disambiguate geographic references, assign latitude/longitude coordinates, and confidence scores and relevance ranking. Each MetaCarta GDM contains linguistic statistics, gazetteer data, and natural language processing (NLP) logic. MetaCarta GeoSiteSearch is a Web portal drop-in that enables users to conduct a geographic search on any content, with search results ranked on location and text relevance.
At Mnemonic, we can help you realize the full value of your information, whether structured or unstructured. Our relevance models help you get the right information to the right people at the right time. They automatically learn to prioritize, categorize, monitor and summarize large volumes of unstructured textual information according to the unique requirements of individual users."
Morphologic provides a range of products, mostly arranged around morphologically sensitive bilingual translation dictionaries, including thesauri. Applications include copy editing such as spelling checkers, hyphenators, grammar and style checkers; text search tools including stemmers; and translation of full documents. Tools include morphological analyzers including stemmers based on unification grammars, syntactic analyzers, spell checkers and language identifiers.
Extractor: Accurately perform entity extraction from unstructured texts using advanced computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Next IT's Human Emulation Software, ActiveAgent, creates Virtual Experts for organizations that are redefining customer service through technology. As a single solution, ActiveAgent accurately understands and interprets users' natural language questions and delivers exact results. ActiveAgent leverages an organization's entire asset and resource portfolio through multiple service channels such as the web, contact center, intranet, mobile devices, and more with accuracy, scalability and operational efficiency."
What if your search engine could read all the market intelligence reports and articles your company creates or licenses and tell you what is in them, suggest to you what the business issues are that they report on, and direct you to the documents that are the most interesting to you, not from a search relevance perspective, but from a meaning perspective?
North Side Inc. technology enables people to interface with applications naturally, by speaking in English or typing.
Ntelligent Enterprise Search by Nstein is a powerful search solution built to increase the efficiency and productivity of your employees on intranets and portals. For public websites, it will guide your customers in the most advanced discovery process. It quickly delivers highly accurate search results in all circumstances.
Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP) is a Java-based content infrastructure designed to be used as a development environment for content- and case-based applications. Nuxeo EP is an extensible and configurable set of ECM services and modular plug-ins that allows an organization to build out specific horizontal or vertical applications."
Semafora Systems GmbH is a provider of products, solutions and services in the area of semantic technologies. The base of the semafora systems solutions are the tried and tested products OntoBroker and OntoStudio, which are responsible for the central tasks of modeling and knowledge processing. For semantic content analytics, the SemanticMiner tool uses ontologies.
Ontotext is a developer of core semantic technology, which delivers applications in domains like Web Mining, EAI, KM, BI, and Media Research.
"OST develops tools and integrates resources that are a precise fit to our client's needs, size, and budget. Unlike many other businesses, we are not married to specific manufacturers or solutions providers that will limit the scope of our offerings. Our Services Include Computational Linguistics"
Oracle Data Mining (ODM) -- an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition -- enables you to easily build and deploy next-generation applications that deliver predictive analytics and new insights. Application developers can rapidly build next-generation applications using ODM's SQL and Java APIs that automatically mine Oracle data and deploy results in real-time-throughout the enterprise.
"Panscient is a content supplier for vertical search engines. They have the interesting business model of supplying lists of people and businesses scraped from the entire .com domain of corporate web sites and updated monthly. They also develop vertical search applications.
Parity Computing's unstructured data management and knowledge discovery solutions transform disparate data and content into a knowledge network of actionable profiles and linked relationships.
We're creating natural language technology that grows and improves as it collects simple human judgments about language. Using this technology, we're building tools to search blog posts, feeds, and other texts for key concepts, not just keywords and phrases. Think of it as tagging meets natural language processing. As of February 2007, they only offered a mailing list.
"Brainspace Corporation makes software that connects people and knowledge through a semantic intelligence platform. Brainspace processes information like the human brain�evaluating content, meaning and connectedness and determining not just relevance, but value. Brainspace�s suite of solutions will transform the way we find and connect to people, data and knowledge."
QL2 Software's tools and solutions deliver business critical data seamlessly and in real-time. QL2's technology integrates data from virtually any source, inside and outside the firewall, with existing applications and solutions. The result is better analytics and smarter, more profitable decisions. It wasn't clear from the web site whether any natural language processing was involved in their products.
Search, classification, eDiscovery and compliance for enterprises. Their CORE platform develops a contextual understanding of the information contained in content and document collections.
High performance search and data analysis.
SAP Business Intelligence tools offers a broad portfolio of tools and applications designed to help you optimize business performance by connecting people, information, and businesses across business networks. Among its operations is Intelligent Search and Text Analysis software to extract, categorize, and summarize key information from unstructured text and convert it to a structured format so that it can be an effective data source for data integration or business intelligence. Process in more than 30 languages."
Teragram is a service provider for technologies such as Linguistics, pattern matching, Linguistic search and retrieval, international dictionaries for search and e-commerce, document management, and high demand Internet applications and services. It licenses its proprietary software and Linguistic data to other companies who embed our technologies into their corporate, Internet or software applications.
A powerful, web-based application that tracks social media and finds signals in the noise to help your team build better products and stronger customer relationships. Includes sentiment analysis, summarization and search over consumer-generated media".
"SDL Language Cloud Machine Translation is a collection of pre-trained engines that contain industry-relevant content that can be further refined with your unique terminology."
Automatic processing of natural written language for optimizing customer interactions. extends traditional BI and enterprise search applications.
Serendio's Customer Experience Analytics (CxA) solution derives insights from social media, emails, surveys, call center narratives and other forms of customer-centric content to provide a precise analysis of customer sentiments, perceptions, needs and wants...through a highly-available and secure SaaS application."
Silobreaker is an automated search service for news and current affairs that aims to provide more relevant results to the user than what traditional search and aggregation engines have been offering so far. Instead of returning just lists of articles matching a search query, Silobreaker finds people, companies, organizations, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context through graphical results in its intuitive user interface. The search result pages look similar to an online newspaper but are generated without human editing. The site aggregates content on global issues, science, technology, energy, business, sports and entertainment from tens of thousands of news sources, blogs, multimedia, and other forms of news media from around the world. With the engine's focus on finding and connecting related data in the information flow, Silobreaker user tools and visualizations are ideal for bringing meaning to content from either today's Web or the evolving Semantic Web, or both.
Sinequa is a global provider of Enterprise Search Solutions, its multi-lingual knowledge access platform.
Soliloquy offers fully automated solutions that enable end users to find the information, services and products they desire through targeted online dialogs. Soliloquy is in the business of dialog mining, a kind of text data mining over dialogues. They claim to be the world's first company to offer turnkey solutions that enable end users to find the information and products they desire through intelligent, targeted dialogs."
PASW Modeler makes it easy to discover insights in your data. Its simple graphical interface puts the power of data mining in the hands of business users and high-performance increases analyst productivity."
Consultancy and software. Bringing cademic research to business. "STIL can offer solutions to businesses and non-profit organizations that have a need to explore what language technology could offer them, or with a need to integrate language technology components in their information systems.
The Talis Platform makes it easy for developers to build powerful applications that use Semantic Web technologies and standards. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), the Platform dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of storing, indexing, searching and augmenting large quantities of data.
VisualText is the premier integrated development environment for building information extraction systems, natural language processing systems, and text analyzers. TAI offers VisualText, an Integrated Development Environment for deep text analysis applications. They also provide TAIParse, which includes part-of-speech tagging and noun-phrase chunking. The basic technology appears to be a multi-pass rule-based approach.
Textkernel specialises in semantic recruitment technology; offers multilingual resume parsing, info extraction, sentiment, and general data mining.
TextMap is a search engine for entities: people, places, and things in the news. It uses natural language processing techniques to track entity references in news sources, and a variety of statistical techniques to analyze the relationships between them.
We provide business-to-business (B2B) analytical software and services to accurately examine and extract information from large volumes of multilingual unstructured text.
TextWise semantic technologies work well in targeted customer relationship management and for intellectual property discovery and analyses.
PR company that provides social media monitoring with sentiment analysis. RSS feed-based Web monitoring application.
Vantage Linguistics offers SearchEnhancer as one of its products, which supplements existing search technology and information retrieval systems by incorporating a linguistic search engine.
"Wordtracker's leading-edge research tool gives you the keywords you need to rise above your competitors in search engine rankings. Even better, we also show you how keyword research can help you discover untapped market niches, get inspiration for new products, and create compelling content that distinguishes your site from the pack."
With the multiplication of on-line document repositories and the phenomenal growth of the Web, a fantastic amount of information is available at our fingertips. The central problem becomes that of quickly accessing, within that mass, the arbitrary pieces of information that are needed at any given time. As a large proportion of the data is made up of natural language texts, any comprehensive solution will rely heavily on natural language processing (NLP). Our research agenda concerns theories, methods, tools and systems that make it possible to uncover the content of natural language texts. XRCE provides demos and licenses for software for finite state automat, machine learning for categorization and clustering, robust parsing and semantics. You can find some online demos and links to research software from the above link.
ZoomInfo.com is a business information search engine, with profiles on more than 35 million people and 3.8 million companies. ZoomInfo delivers a single site for quick and easy access to in-depth information on industries, companies, people, products, services and jobs. "ZoomInfo, a semantic search engine, uses its patented Natural Language Processing algorithms to understand and organize the business web." ZoomInfo focuses on search for people, companies or jobs on zoominfo.com.
ZyLAB is in e-discovery, and offers general text data mining, includeing entity extraction and summarization. They also do visualization and MT.