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Kono Automatically Schedules Your Meetings with Text Analytics from Basis TechnologyCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Basis Technology, the leader in multilingual text analytics, announced today that Konolabs Inc. has integrated Rosette® entity extraction into its Kono product (http://kono.ai) in order to interpret natural language text messages. Scheduling meetings on a smartphone is nearly impossible. Between checking calendars and coordinating across time zones, you need an assistant. Kono, an artificial intelligence (AI) scheduler for busy professionals, provides just that. With Rosette entity extraction, it can now identify key words such as a time or a place to improve its ability to recommend meetings, allowing users to interact with the app more intuitively. Take for example, "I want to meet @athos, @porthos, [email protected] Sept 5 in Cambridge." Rosette identifies "Sept 5" as a time and "Cambridge" as a place, which Kono uses to help find openings in the calendars of fellow Kono users Athos and Porthos, while also emailing [email protected]. "We reviewed several open APIs and other natural language processing solutions. Rosette is reliable and flexible, allowing us to customize the entity extractor to our needs," YJ Min, Founder of Konolabs, said. "As a startup, we need to focus exclusively on our core AI technology, rather than the nuances of linguistics, so we found a dependable partner in Basis Technology." Like a human assistant, Kono learns user preferences and provides increasingly personalized recommendations for meeting dates and times, based on the user's availability, traveling time to the meeting destinations, and other contextual data. Kono interfaces seamlessly with non-Kono users through email or texting. "Ideas from startups like Konolabs continuallyexpand the possibilities of text analytics, simplifying multi-step tasks and leveraging data that supports our pace of life and business," Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology, said. "In the same vein, Basis Technology is constantly expanding our capabilities and features to meet the growing needs of this market." Konolabs is a participant in Basis Technology's Startup Program which makes Rosette accessible and affordable to high-impact, early-stage companies. Access to professional grade text analytics at a price that accommodates the fiscal realities of a young company means startups can more quickly go to market with their ideas. Members in the Startup Program include applications for voice of the customer, Fed watching, authorship ID, video search, and more. Basis Technology is proud to foster the growth of innovative, young companies while expanding our platform into new markets. For more information, visit www.rosette.com/startup-program/. About Basis Technology About Konolabs To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kono-automatically-schedules-your-meetings-with-text-analytics-from-basis-technology-300330390.html SOURCE Basis Technology |