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Basis Technology and Data to Decisions CRC Partner to Strengthen Australian National SecurityCAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Data to Decisions CRC (D2DCRC)—a part of the Australian government initiative, The Cooperative Research Centres Programme— has selected Rosette® text analytics from Basis Technology to provide critical analysis of multilingual, open data sources, such as social media and newsfeeds, for two projects funded by the Australian government to strengthen national security. The Apostle Project will develop an automated system that paints an "intelligence picture" of particular people, places, and organizations of interest to intelligence analysts. The Beat the News project will analyze open source intelligence data—both text and multimedia—to forecast civil unrest events. D2DCRC acts as an R&D integrator, seeking out best-of-breed technology from all over the world, and augmenting it with custom development to fulfill the current and future national security needs of Australian federal government agencies. "Motivating these projects is the fact that intelligence analysts are drowning in information, and spending more time gathering data and less time doing analysis. That's only going to get worse," D2DCRC CEO Sanjay Mazumdar said. "At present, building an 'intelligence picture' of a person or organization is very manual. Our goal is to automate the data gathering, so that analysts spend more time analyzing, linking, and interrogating th data. "That Basis Technology had experience in predictive analytics projects and a successful track record in the U.S. national security community, were key factors in our choosing Rosette." "Our partnership with Data to Decisions CRC enables longer range and more accurate event prediction, by allowing the team to make use of data sources in a broader range of languages," said Gregor Stewart, VP of Product Management at Basis Technology. "This initiative builds on our work in previous predictive analytics projects, and presents unique challenges suited to the powerful adaptability features of Rosette that can eke out an extra few percentage points of accuracy when it is really needed." About Data to Decisions CRC About Basis Technology To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/basis-technology-and-data-to-decisions-crc-partner-to-strengthen-australian-national-security-300273654.html SOURCE Basis Technology |