BasisTech is a software company specializing in applying artificial intelligence techniques to understanding documents and unstructured data written in different languages.

Its software focuses on analyzing freeform text so that applications can do a better job understanding the meaning of the words.

[1] Their software also performs entity extraction, that is finding words which refer to people, places, and organizations from text for uses such as due diligence, intelligence and metadata tagging.

[2] The company is best known for its Rosette product which uses Natural Language Processing techniques to improve information retrieval, text mining, search engines and other applications.

The open-source licensing model allows them to be used as the foundation for larger projects like a Hadoop-based tool for massively parallel forensic analysis of very large data collections.