Basis Technology Delivers Entity Extraction to Microsoft Live Search

Basis Technology announced that Microsoft has licensed its Rosette Entity Extractor (REX) to enhance the user experience on Microsoft Live Search by adding news results to specific user queries. REX helps organizations use information locked in unstructured data that cannot be found through keyword matching. Advanced statistical algorithms enable discovery of entities like names, places, dates, and other phrases that establish the real meaning in text. Live Search processes web documents through REX to create a list of "names in the news." When user’s queries match this list, Live Search knows it could be related to the news and adds news to the results display. Microsoft has been using Basis Technology’s linguistic software since the launch of MSN Search beta in late 2004. The Rosette Entity Extractor is designed for integration into software systems for information retrieval, text mining, relationship extraction, business intelligence, military intelligence, e-commerce and other applications that classify, analyze, and mine textual information. http://www.basistech.com