<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
is	O
a	O
suite	O
of	O
multilingual	O
text	O
and	O
identity	O
analytics	O
products	O
that	O
analyze	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
text	O
data	O
–	O
reports	O
,	O
web	O
,	O
social	O
media	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
utilizes	O
artificial	O
intelligence	O
(	O
AI	O
)	O
-based	O
approaches	O
,	O
including	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
,	O
machine	O
learning	O
(	O
ML	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
computational	O
linguistics	O
,	O
to	O
extract	O
entities	O
,	O
relationships	O
,	O
and	O
events	O
;	O
to	O
perform	O
sentiment	O
analysis	O
;	O
to	O
assign	O
latitude/longitude	O
to	O
geographical	O
references	O
in	O
text	O
;	O
to	O
translate	O
names	O
written	O
in	O
foreign	O
languages	O
;	O
and	O
to	O
perform	O
name	O
matching	O
and	O
identity	O
resolution	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
's	O
uses	O
include	O
semantic	O
search	O
and	O
discovery	O
,	O
geospatial	O
analysis	O
,	O
intelligence	O
analysis	O
,	O
content	O
enrichment	O
,	O
compliance	O
monitoring	O
,	O
cyber	O
threat	O
monitoring	O
,	O
risk	O
management	O
,	O
and	O
bioinformatics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
product	O
was	O
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
Extractor	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
initially	O
released	O
in	O
1996	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
then	O
,	O
Extractor	O
has	O
added	O
many	O
new	O
capabilities	O
,	O
including	O
relationship	O
and	O
event	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
,	O
categorization	O
,	O
name	O
translation	O
,	O
geotagging	O
,	O
and	O
sentiment	O
analysis	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
entity	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
in	O
other	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
products	O
were	O
added	O
later	O
to	O
the	O
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
suite	O
,	O
namely	O
TextMiner	O
,	O
NameMatcher	O
,	O
and	O
EntityMatcher	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
has	O
participated	O
in	O
several	O
3rd	O
party-sponsored	O
text	O
and	O
entity	O
analytics	O
software	O
benchmarking	O
events	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
Extractor	O
was	O
the	O
top-scoring	O
named	O
entity	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
system	O
at	O
the	O
DARPA-sponsored	O
Message	B-General_Concept
Understanding	I-General_Concept
Conference	I-General_Concept
MUC-6	O
and	O
the	O
top-scoring	O
link	O
and	O
event	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
system	O
in	O
MUC-7	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
NameMatcher	O
was	O
the	O
top-scoring	O
system	O
at	O
the	O
for	O
Multicultural	O
Person	O
Name	O
Matching	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
suite	O
includes	O
,	O
among	O
others	O
,	O
the	O
following	O
text	O
and	O
entity	O
analytics	O
products	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
Extractor	O
performs	O
entity	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
from	O
unstructured	O
texts	O
using	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
,	O
machine	O
learning	O
(	O
ML	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
computational	O
linguistics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Extractor	O
also	O
performs	O
semantic	O
relationship	O
and	O
event	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
as	O
well	O
as	O
geotagging	O
of	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
runs	O
on	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
Big	B-Application
Data	I-Application
analytics	I-Application
platforms	O
,	O
including	O
Apache	B-Application
Hadoop	I-Application
and	O
LexisNexis	O
’s	O
High-Performance	O
Computer	O
Cluster	O
(	O
HPCC	B-Operating_System
)	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetOwl	B-Algorithm
NameMatcher	O
and	O
EntityMatcher	O
perform	O
name	O
matching	O
and	O
identity	O
resolution	O
for	O
large	O
multicultural	O
and	O
multilingual	O
entity	O
databases	O
using	O
machine	O
learning	O
(	O
ML	O
)	O
and	O
computational	O
linguistics	O
approaches	O
.	O
</s>
