Bitext The Bits and Text Company

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• Bitext - The Bits and Text Company
• Accessible Information
• www.bitext.com
• info_at_bitext.com

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How we started

• Group of experts in language technologies with
  extensive experience at multinationals
• RD Departments (IBM, WordPerfect, Novell)
• MS Word grammar checkers, semantic networks
• European RD Projects European Commissions IST
  Program
• LIQUID, first multilingual search engine in
  Europe
• ALLES, computer-assisted language learning
• TT2, assisted and machine translation
• In 2008 the bank Caja Navarra becomes financing
  partner.

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Solution Concept I
Select table . from order by where
Databases
Keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 ..
Unstructured information
Natural Language
Title john subtitle
Menu contacts search - john
Formal language
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Solution Concept II Architecture
CASE A
CASE B
Information Databases, Web, Forms
I would like to get information about
Solution B
Solution A
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Solutions for Various Environments

• NaturalFinder
• Complement which enables natural language
  queries in search engines
• NaturalAssistant
• Virtual assistant for customer service
• NaturalMail
• Email management alerts, forwarding, etc.
• NaturalGIS (SQL)
• Access to Databases/GIS in natural language

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Other Integration Environments

• Wherever there is valuable text and people who
  need to access it
• Entity extraction and business intelligence
  (about markets, competitors, etc.)
• what negative comments are there about the
  iPhone?
• Tracking products in e-Commerce retailers
• Im looking for the cheapest iPod in Madrid
• Concept extraction for log analysis, document
  analysis, etc.
• information about transport of dangerous goods
• With any application and any plataform

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Case how to improve a search engine (Microsoft
Live)
To improve the ranking in a search engine To
provide a user-friendly interface To easily find
what we are looking for
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Objective
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Solution
Seamless integration of Bitexts natural language
technology as intelligence layer on top of Live.
There is no adaptation of the users language to
the search engine language And the users
satisfaction improves
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Benefit
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Case how to improve a search engine (1 of 2)
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Case how to improve a search engine (2 of 2)
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Syntactic tree returned by DataSuite
Information about merging of companies in Spain
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Technical Details

• Technical features
• Proprieraty development 100 in C/C
• Multiplataform Windows, Linux/UNIX
• Modular
• Flexible API
• Integrable with any application
• Performance (in Intel Pentium 4, 2.8GHz)
• Lexical processing 1,000,000 words per second
• Syntactic processing 1,000 sentences per second

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References

• Spanish Ministry of Public Administration (INAP
  - MAP)
• Spanish Ministry of Defense - CNI
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Barcelona Townhall Multilingual NaturalFinder
• RENFE (Spanish National Railway Company)
• ESRI Spain Grupo EP
• Bankinter iSOCO
• Atos Origin sae

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Partnerships

• Manufacturers
• Atril (DéjàVu)
• dtSearch Corp. (USA)
• Integrators
• - Sitesa - EuroHelp Consulting S.L. - Everdoc
• - Isoco - Soluziona-Indra - IECISA
• - Babel - ATOS Consulting - SHS polar
• - SADIEL - Como Consultoría
• RD Departments
• RALI Université Montréal (Canadá)
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
• Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)

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Thanks for your attention

• Bitext.com - The Bit and Text Company
• www.bitext.com - info_at_bitext.com
• Antonio S. Valderrabanos - Founder and CEO
• asv_at_bitext.com