Month: January 2017

Welcome

The industry catalog is a resource for our students to know what companies do work related to computational linguistics. “Brandeis connections” lists students who work or have worked as interns or employees at the company. If you’d like to add your company, send a short description to mmeteer at brandeis dot com along with the categories you’d like to be listed under.

SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.
The SAP HANA text analysis team – located in Boston, MA – combines the talents of computational linguists and skilled software engineers to deliver best-of-breed text analysis capabilities in all major languages. The team’s strategic focus is the development of natural-language processing functionality for the SAP Foundation for Health, the HANA–based central component of our newly formed product unit for healthcare. By combining structured and unstructured data for comprehensive analytical processes, the platform functions as an integration point for many diverse health–related applications and forms the foundation of SAP’s solutions for personalized medicine.
Brandeis connections: Russel Entrikin, Annie Thorburn

MITRE

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that operates research and development centers sponsored by the federal government. Our centers support our sponsors with scientific research and analysis, development and acquisition, and systems engineering and integration. We also have an independent research program that explores new and expanded uses of technologies to meet our sponsors’ needs. Our principal locations are in Bedford, Mass., and McLean, Va.
Brandeis Connections: David Tresner-Kirsch

Philips Research North America

At Philips, we are driven by our mission to improve the lives of 3 billion people per year by 2025, and every day we move closer to achieving our goal by creating cutting-edge solutions that lead to confident diagnosis, improved care, and increased quality of life for patients. Named one of the Top 50 Happiest Companies in America in 2013 and a 2014 Top Place to Work by the Boston Globe, we enable our employees to create a legacy in life through their work and support their development through people-centric learning, total rewards and personalized development planning programs.
Our research and business provides unique opportunities to develop cutting edge clinical solutions and deliver meaningful solutions in the healthcare space. Specifically, our ongoing efforts in healthcare research for real time diagnostic and therapeutic decision support applications leverage expertise in automated question answering, semantic reasoning, social media data analysis, predictive modeling and knowledge discovery driven by the state-of-the-art methodologies in computational linguistics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning with deep architecture. We maintain collaborative relationships with various universities, scientific institutions, academic organizations and governmental resources.

Genesys

Genesys is the market leader in omnichannel customer experience (Voice, IVR, Web, Chat, E-Mail) and in contact center solutions, both in our Cloud offering and on Customer premises. We help brands of all sizes, from Microsoft, Nike, and Fidelity to Fred’s Pizza Shop, make great Customer Experience great business.
The Genesys Customer Experience platform powers optimal end-customer journeys across all touchpoints, channels and interactions to turn customers into brand advocates.
Genesys is trusted by over 4,500 Customers in 80 countries to orchestrate more than 100 million digital and voice interactions each day.

CL Seminar on the LAPPS Natural Language Grid, Feb 1

The Language Application Grid as a Platform for NLP Research
Keith Suderman
Vassar College

Wednesday, February 1 at 3pm
Volen 101
Brandeis University

The LAPPS Grid project (Vassar, Brandeis, CMU, LDC), which has developed a platform providing access to a vast array of language processing tools and resources for the purposes of research and development in natural language processing (NLP), has recently expanded to enhance its usability by non-technical users such as those in the Digital Humanities community. We provide a live demonstration of LAPPS Grid use, ranging from “from scratch” construction of a workflow using atomic tools to a pre-configured docker image that can be run off-the-shelf on a laptop or in the cloud, for several tasks of relevance to the NLP and DH communities.

Keith Suderman is a Research Assistant with the Department of Computer Science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Keith works full time on the development of the LAPPS Grid API, architecture, and tool integrations.

Basis Technology

For over 20 years, Basis Technology has been a pioneer in machine learning, revealing meaningful information and intelligence out of raw, unstructured text. The Rosette platform, accessible on premise or SaaS, gives businesses and government agencies around the world the necessary interoperable linguistic tools for deep knowledge decision making. We work with companies large and small who build applications spanning social media monitoring, risk and compliance, identity management and security scanning. The Rosette® platform adds a wealth of powerful functionality, from pure linguistics to entity, name and relationship centric analysis in Asian, European and Middle Eastern languages, to any underlying search or database infrastructure.
Brandeis connections: Zachary Yocum, Justin Su, Anna Astori

Cobalt Speech & Language

Cobalt is a speech & language solutions outsourcing and consulting firm. Many software companies set out to build some new project, incorporating some component of speech or language technology, only to realize that speech & language technology is wicked hard, and not like other technology. Human language is the most sophisticated trait of the most sophisticated creature on the planet, and it’s not surprising that it’s hard to do. Cobalt is the speech & language lab for all of those companies that don’t have the ability to establish their own dedicated lab — the lab for the rest of the world. We employ smart & experienced scientists around the world in a virtual company (meaning we work from home) on a variety of interesting projects. In general, our customers are looking for technology that is within reach, but not offered by simple APIs from other speech providers.
Brandeis connections: Jake Freyer

UFA

UFA is a leading, privately-held software engineering firm specializing in Air Traffic Control simulation technologies. UFA, Inc provide simulation products to civil aviation, military, and university customers worldwide. A key element of the product is speech recognition modeling Air Traffic Control commands.
Brandeis connections: Cynthia Goodman, Travis Hasley

Partners Healthcare

Partners HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system that is committed to patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community locally and globally. Collaboration among our institutions and health care professionals is central to our efforts to advance our mission. Founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare includes community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and Partners is a national leader in biomedical research.
Brandeis connections: Ken Lai, Suzanne Blakeley, Jessica Huynh, Clay Riley

Nuance

Nuance Communications is reinventing the relationship between people and technology. We believe in the power of intelligent systems, and quite specifically what the power can do for you. Our innovations in voice, natural language understanding, reasoning and systems integration come together to create more human technology.
We are pioneers in making technology fluent in all things human: from understanding spoken words and extracting their meaning to adaptively and seamlessly interpreting the swipe of a fingertip. Every interaction can finally be understood to deliver exactly what a person needs. And we continuously evolve the ability to perceive the nuance of words, actions and meaning — to fit seamlessly into your life, your business and your world.
Nuance is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with more than 35 offices around the world, and approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. We have a significant portfolio of intellectual property, with more than 4,500 global issued and pending patents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience our proven applications, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 use our solutions.

IBM WATSON

IBM Watson Group is a leading-edge start-up business within IBM, charged with ushering in the new era of cognitive computing. Watson mirrors the same cognitive processes as humans with the ability to ingest massive amounts of unstructured data. At IBM Watson Group, we’re transforming a range of industries and professions from medical research and diagnosis to investment guidance and customer service. You can see some of the impact that IBM Watson is making at https://ibm.biz/watsondiscoveryadvisor or you can start building apps yourself with the Watson Developer Cloud at http://ibmwatson.com/developercloud
We have opportunities across the business, whether it’s developing code, conducting research in the cognitive space or implementing solutions for clients

HUMEDICA

Humedica is a clinical intelligence company that powers health care, life sciences, and research organizations to make better-informed, more effective decisions. Our cloud-based analytics solutions create a longitudinal view of both individual patients and patient populations. We gather, normalize, and analyze data from disparate sources that, uniquely, span the continuum of care–including EHRs, Practice Management Systems and claims. By the end of 2015, our data will account for 65M patient lives in the U.S.

Humedica NLP is at the heart of the process, extracting structure from billions of free-form physician notes. NLP data is combined with our other data assets to form one of the largest actionable pools of healthcare information in the world.
Big Data is ushering in a revolution in health care. We are looking for scientists and engineers who are excited by the idea of using their skills to make a difference in this field. We have the infrastructure and the data to enable that revolution–we are looking for people who want to be part of it.

SIFT

Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) is a small Artificial Intelligence R&D company headquartered in Minneapolis with an office in Lexington Center. We do basic and applied contract research for government agencies, principally DARPA, and publish our results at academic conferences. Everyone codes. Everyone contributes to proposals and collaborates on papers. Interns have mentors to introduce them to their projects and the SIFT culture so they can immediately contribute. We have active projects in all areas of natural language, from the simplest bag of words to the deepest semantic and pragmatic analysis. At our Boston office we are in the middle of a multi-site research effort in collaborative dialog for DARPA. SIFT as a whole also works on problems in cyber-security, planning and plan recognition, games with a purpose, supervisory control, and human factors.
Brandeis connections: Current: Alex Plotnick,  Past: Amandalynne Paullada, Chris Ward

Rakuten

Rakuten, Inc. is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace company worldwide. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas. Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 10,000 employees and partner staff worldwide. Rakuten’s 2013 revenues were 518.6 billion yen.
Rakuten Ichiba, our Japanese ecommerce site, is named after Rakuichi-Rakuza, the first free and open marketplace in Japan. When used as a verb, raku is written with a Chinese character meaning to enjoy oneself. The same character is used in Rakuten’s name, which means “positive spirit,” because we believe that shopping should always be entertaining. These words symbolize the forward looking nature of our business, hence the name, Rakuten, Inc.
Brandeis connections: Aaron Levine

QPID Health

QPID Health streamlines mandated quality reporting for hospitals and medical groups. Providers cut data abstraction costs and get the credit they deserve for the care they deliver. Our applications leverage our powerful clinical reasoning software, which combines natural language processing (NLP) and clinical logic. The software locates & synthesizes patient facts by analyzing both structured data fields and free form text in electronic health records.
Boston Connections: Michael Shafir, Mike Cravaro, Nick Botcham, Justin Su, Yuanyuan Ma

Optum Analytics

Optum Analytics is a clinical intelligence company that powers health care, life sciences, and research organizations to make better-informed, more effective decisions. Our cloud-based analytics solutions create a longitudinal view of both individual patients and patient populations. We gather, normalize, and analyze data from disparate sources that, uniquely, span the continuum of care–including EHRs, Practice Management Systems and claims.
Optum NLP is at the heart of the process, extracting structure from billions of free-form physician notes. NLP data is combined with our other data assets to form one of the largest actionable pools of healthcare information in the world.
Big Data is ushering in a revolution in health care. We are looking for scientists and engineers who are excited by the idea of using their skills to make a difference in this field. We have the infrastructure and the data to enable that revolution–we are looking for people who want to be part of it.

Interactions

Interactions: For your customers, checking an order or fixing a problem can sometimes be complicated. But it doesn’t have to be. Interactions virtual assistant solutions turn frustrating experiences into productive conversations. Unlike other automated applications, Interactions solutions are built with our patented Adaptive-UnderstandingTM technology that delivers unprecedented comprehension. So your customers can speak in their own words – and accomplish more in less time. Each month, Interactions helps millions of our clients’ customers get things done. Why make things complicated when the right choice is simple?

Google

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[6] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google’s core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Sheets and Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), social networking (Google+), instant messaging and video chat (Google Allo/Duo/Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and turn-by-turn navigation (Google Maps), video-sharing (YouTube), taking notes (Google Keep), organizing and editing photos (Google Photos), and a web browser (Google Chrome)

Location: Mountain View CA
Brandeis students and alumni: Cory Massaro

Crimson Hexagon

Crimson Hexagon is SAAS company working to surface consumer insights to enterprise companies with a strong focus on social media listening and analytics. We empower our clients search through nearly 1 Trillion social media posts for content related to their brand, target audience, or any topic of interest and understand both the conversation and the communities of people participating in it.
As a research scientist, I work to help improve our search and text analytics capabilities across. In the past, as part of my work I have had the opportunity to train completely new models for text classification, created new visualizations to reveal interesting patterns, and expanded existing capabilities to new languages.

Boston MA

Brandeis students and alumni: Colin Sullivan

Cognii

Cognii is a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence based educational technologies. Cognii’s award winning Virtual Learning Assistant uses Natural Language Processing to automatically grade students’ open-response answers and provide personalized tutoring. Cognii helps students learn better, improves teachers’ productivity and helps Schools reduce the cost of delivering high quality education at a large scale.

Location: Boston MA
Brandeis students and alumni: Ryan Nicole

CallMiner

CallMiner helps businesses and organizations improve contact center performance and gather key business intelligence by automating their ability to listen to every customer interaction. CallMiner’s market leading cloud-based voice of the customer analytics solution automatically analyzes contacts across all communication channels: calls, chat, email, and social. CallMiner offers both real-time monitoring and post-call analytics, delivering actionable insights to contact center staff, business analysts, and executives. The results include improved agent performance, sales, operational efficiency, customer experience, and regulatory compliance. With over 10 years of industry leadership and over 2 billion hours of conversations analyzed, CallMiner serves some of the world’s largest call centers, delivering highly effective, usable, and scalable speech analytics solutions.  Locations: Waltham MA, Ft. Myers FL

Burning Glass

Burning Glass Technologies delivers job market analytics that empower employers, workers, and educators to make data-driven decisions. Burning Glass is reshaping how the job market works, with data that identify the skill gaps that keep job seekers and employers apart and tools that enable both sides to bridge that gap and connect more easily. The company’s artificial intelligence technology analyzes hundreds of millions of job postings and real-life career transitions to provide insight into labor market patterns. This real-time strategic intelligence offers crucial insights, such as which jobs are most in demand, the specific skills employers need, and the career directions that offer the highest potential for workers.
Burning Glass’ applications drive practical solutions and are used across the job market: by educators in aligning programs with the market, by employers and recruiters in filling positions more effectively, and by policy makers in shaping strategic workforce decisions. At the same time, Burning Glass’ data-driven applications for workers and students help them choose career goals and build the skills they need to get ahead. Based in Boston, Burning Glass is playing a growing role in informing the global conversation on education and the workforce, and in creating a job market that works for everyone.
Brandeis Connections: Adam Berger, Alex Nunes, Noa Naaman, Xinhao Wang

BBN

BBN Technologies is a legendary R&D organization that creates technology and leverages the resulting intellectual property to produce advanced, repeatable solutions. such as the Boomerang shooter detection system. Speech and Language is one of the largest research groups in the country and advances the state-of-the-art in speech and natural language processing through the development of novel algorithms and techniques and creates custom solutions in translation, language understanding, and document/image analysis. Current projects include: TransTalk, BBN Broadcast Monitoring System, Machine Reading, and video analysis.

AVOKE Caller Experience Analytics leverages 30 years of BBN research in speech recognition, language processing and call center optimization to provide an innovative new analytics solution. Our mission is to make call centers satisfying for callers and efficient for the companies that operate them.
Brandeis Connections: Michael Shafir, Mike Crivaro, Nick Botcham, Aaron Levine, Alex Nunes, Anya Korneyeva, Cory Massaro, Adam Berger, Heather Lourie, Hannah Provenza, Jose Molina

Basis Technology

For over 20 years, Basis Technology has been a pioneer in machine learning, revealing meaningful information and intelligence from raw, unstructured text. The Rosette® text analytics platform, accessible on premise or as a web API, gives businesses and government agencies around the world the necessary interoperable linguistic tools for deep knowledge decision-making. We work with companies, large and small, building enterprise search solutions spanning social media monitoring, risk and compliance, identity management, and security scanning. Rosette adds a wealth of powerful functionality—from pure linguistics to analyses centered around entities, names and relationships in Asian, European, and Middle Eastern languages—to any underlying search or database infrastructure. For more information, email info@basistech.com or visit www.basistech.com.
Brandeis students and alumni: Zachary Yocum, Anna Astori, Justin Su

Apple Speech

Play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction. Contribute to a product that is redefining mobile computing. Create groundbreaking technology for large scale systems, spoken language, big data, and artificial intelligence. And work with the people who created the intelligent assistant that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking. Join the Siri Speech team at Apple.
The Siri team is looking for exceptionally skilled and creative Engineers eager to get involved in hands-on work improving the Siri experience.

Amazon

Who We Are: We are a team of scientists and developers working on audio, speech and natural language solutions that will revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services.

What We Do: Our mission is to push the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), and audio signal processing in order to provide the best possible experience for our customers.

What We’re Looking For: We are a rapidly growing team and are looking for passionate, entrepreneurial research scientists and engineers who have deep expertise in speech recognition, language understanding and audio processing. We also have openings for research managers who have a proven track record of managing and mentoring research scientists.
Brandeis Connections:  Andy Rosenbaum, Ricki Brutti, Elizabeth Baran