# Blog

> Get insights from Babel Street on topics around identity, threat, and vendor risk for governments, defense agencies, and the private sector.

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## Babel Street Blog

The latest updates in threat intelligence: breaking news, expert analysis, and thought leadership to help you stay ahead.

## All Blog (203)

### [Iran Conflict Updates](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/iran-conflict-updates)

### [Martyn’s Law Compliance: What Organizations in Scope Need to Do Now](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/martyns-law-compliance-guide)
*Jun 24, 2026*
Learn how organizations can prepare for Martyn's Law compliance with threat awareness, risk assessment, preparedness procedures, and audit-ready security workflows.

### [From Entertainment to Financial Institution: Why Gambling is Being Regulated Like Banking](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/identity-intelligence-gambling-ai-fraud)
*Jun 16, 2026*
How gambling operators can combat AI-driven fraud, synthetic identities, and evolving regulatory requirements with identity intelligence and continuous monitoring. 

### [Entity Extraction, Entity Resolution, and Why They Matter](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/entity-extraction-entity-resolution-and-why-they-matter)
*Jun 12, 2026*
Unlock cleaner, connected data with advanced entity extraction. Improve accuracy, reduce risk, and power confident decisions across any system or workflow.

### [Beyond the Stadium: Solving the Biggest Security Challenges of Multi-Venue Events](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/2026-sporting-event-security-challenges)
*Jun 4, 2026*
The biggest security challenges facing a major soccer event, from border security and cyber threats to misinformation and event protection at scale.

### [Feature Spotlight: Enhanced Entity Extraction in Babel Street Insights](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/entity-extraction-data-osint)
*May 27, 2026*
How entity extraction transforms unstructured data into actionable intelligence for OSINT teams

### [Navigating the AI-on-AI Era: Introducing Insights Investigator for Agentic Risk Intelligence](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/intent-to-intelligence-agentic-ai)
*May 18, 2026*
Accelerate investigations with agentic AI. Insights Investigator transforms intent into structured workflows and delivers validated intelligence faster.

### [When Infrastructure Becomes a Weapon: How Iran’s Campaigns Cascade Across the U.S. Economy](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/iran-critical-infrastructure-cyber-threats)
*Apr 22, 2026*
Iran’s cyber campaigns target interconnected infrastructure - from energy to finance - creating cascading risks across industries. Learn how systemic threats unfold.

### [Digital Risk Protection in the Age of AI-Powered Crime](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/digital-risk-protection-helps-detect-online-threats)
*Apr 13, 2026*
How digital risk protection helps detect online threats, safeguard identities, reduce exposure, and strengthen security across the digital landscape.

### [Building the Future of Agentic Risk Intelligence: Inside Babel Street’s 2026 Hackathon](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/agentic-risk-intelligence-2026-hackathon)
*Apr 6, 2026*
Explore how 2026 Hackathon showcased agentic AI and OSINT-driven risk intelligence, transforming how organizations detect, analyze, and act on emerging threats.

### [Prepare for the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Recommendations](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/ai-fraud-detection-government-benefits)
*Apr 1, 2026*
How AI-driven identity risk intelligence helps government agencies detect and prevent fraud in social welfare and entitlement programs before funds are disbursed.

### [If Your Company is on the IRGC threat list, we’re here for you.](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/irgc-threat-list-were-here-for-you)
*Apr 1, 2026*
Iran's IRGC has issued a time-bound warning targeting U.S. and Western technology companies — their employees, their executives, and the infrastructure they operate. Named companies are already closing offices and relocating staff.

### [Financial Crime Compliance Solutions to Reduce AML Risk and Fraud](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/financial-crime-compliance-solutions-to-reduce-aml-risk-and-fraud)
*Mar 26, 2026*
How financial crime compliance solutions help financial institutions reduce AML risk, detect fraud faster, and improve investigative efficiency using AI-driven intelligence.

### [Why Border Security Needs a Modern Risk Intelligence Platform](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/osint-risk-intelligence-modern-border-security)
*Mar 24, 2026*
How OSINT-powered risk intelligence strengthens border security, visa screening, asylum verification, and threat detection in an automated border environment. 

### [Watchlist Screening: Understanding Effective AML Compliance](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/watchlist-screening-understanding-effective-aml-compliance)
*Mar 12, 2026*
Learn about advanced watchlist screening designed to support global AML compliance with improved matching accuracy, operational efficiency, and risk control.

### [Rare Earth Minerals, Strategic Leverage, and the Fragility of U.S. Supply Chains](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/rare-earth-supply-chain-risk-china-dominance)
*Feb 24, 2026*

### [Happy Employee and Vendor Relationships Start with Thorough Vetting](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/employee-vendor-vetting-hidden-risks)
*Feb 13, 2026*

### [Uncovering the Truth: Using AI and OSINT to Catch Insurance Fraudsters](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/insurance-fraud-detection-osint-ai)
*Feb 9, 2026*
How OSINT, social media monitoring, & AI identity risk platforms help insurance investigators detect suspicious claims.

### [What Will 2026 Demand of Risk‑Intelligence Leaders?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/risk-intelligence-playbook-2026)
*Feb 3, 2026*
Geopolitics, cyber, supply chains, and AI governance are merging fast. Discover the four pillars of risk intelligence leadership in 2026.

### [The Future of Risk Intelligence: Eliminating Blind Spots to Gain Decision Advantage](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/future-of-risk-intelligence-eliminating-blind-spots)
*Dec 18, 2025*

### [Securing Tomorrow: How AI and Policy Are Transforming Defense Acquisitions and Supply Chain Security](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/ai-vendor-vetting-defense-supply-chain-risk)
*Dec 16, 2025*

### [Babel Street Achieves Advancements in Information Security Compliance for AI-Powered Insights Platform](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/information-security-compliance-for-ai-powered-solutions)
*Dec 9, 2025*

### [From Battlefield to Boardroom: Why "Mission-Grade" Intelligence is the New Standard](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-mission-grade-intelligence-is-the-new-standard)
*Dec 5, 2025*

### [Babel Street Match Helps Banks Meet Verification of Payee Mandates](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/prevent-eft-fraud-with-payee-verification)
*Sep 23, 2025*

### [Shielded Online: How Managed Attribution Empowers Trust & Safety Teams](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/managed-attribution-empowers-trust-and-safety-teams)
*Aug 12, 2025*
How managed attribution helps trust and safety teams stay secure, anonymous, and effective during digital investigations and online threat monitoring.

### [Guided Tours in Babel Street Match: Learn Name Matching with Ease](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/introducing-babel-street-match-guided-tours)
*Aug 5, 2025*
Ever started learning a new software tool for the first time, only to realize you have no idea where to start? This phenomenon goes by many names — decision par...

### [Contested Telecommunications as Contested Logistics - When Your Cargo is Data](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/contested-telecommunications-as-contested-logistics-when-your-cargo-is-data)
*Jul 24, 2025*
Strategic Signals SeriesThe following reflects insights one could draw from recent global developments, based on open-source intelligence and expert framing by ...

### [The 2026 NDAA Just Changed the Rules – Are Your Vendors a Hidden Risk?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/2026-ndaa-rules-of-defense-vendor-vetting)
*Jul 18, 2025*

### [Contested Logistics: Hezbollah in the Americas](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/contested-logistics-hezbollah-in-the-americas)
*Jul 16, 2025*
Strategic Signals SeriesThe following reflects insights one could draw from recent global military developments, based on open-source intelligence and expert fr...

### [Three Guiding Principles for the Development of OSINT Agentic Systems](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/designing-trustworthy-ai-for-osint)
*Jul 14, 2025*
How AI agents can transform OSINT by aligning with analyst intent, ensuring transparency, and keeping humans in control of intelligence workflows.

### [Reframing Signals Intelligence: China’s Graphite Bomb](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/reframing-signals-intelligence-context-over-technology)
*Jul 7, 2025*
Strategic Signals Series: Decoding the world through OSINTThe following reflects insights one could draw from recent global military developments, based on open...

### [Five Ways a Good OSINT Platform Differs from a Mediocre One](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/difference-between-good-and-average-osint-platforms)
*Jul 2, 2025*
Understand what you can experience with a truly good OSINT solution before you chooseOpen-source intelligence (OSINT) has come a long way in the last 10-15 year...

### [Takeaways from Fordow: Hypersonics, Concrete, and the Rare Earth Elements Chessboard](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/global-defense-trends-hypersonics-bunker-busters-rare-earths)
*Jul 1, 2025*
Strategic Signals Series: Decoding the world through OSINTThe following reflects insights one could draw from recent global military developments, based on open...

### [Understanding Vendor Vetting for Business and Government](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/vendor-vetting-for-business-and-government)
*Jun 30, 2025*
Today’s businesses and governments rely on a complex web of vendors and suppliers to deliver products and services. While this interconnectedness offers efficie...

### [How Anti-Money Laundering Software is Revolutionizing KYC Compliance](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-anti-money-laundering-software-is-revolutionizing-kyc-compliance)
*Jun 26, 2025*
The fight against financial crime is more complex than ever. With criminals laundering an estimated $800 billion to $2 trillion annually — up to 5% of the globa...

### [Bombs over Fordow – What Not to Miss](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/osint-and-the-israel-iran-conflict-strategic-insights)
*Jun 23, 2025*
Strategic Signals Series: Decoding the world through OSINTThe following reflects insights one could draw from the evolving Israel-Iran conflict, based on open-s...

### [Data defense: How Babel Street helps secure high-profile sporting events](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/data-defense-helps-secure-high-profile-sporting-events)
*Jun 23, 2025*
The FIFA Club World Cup is here. Sixty-three matches played by 32 teams in a dozen venues across the United States — from Miami to New York to Los Angeles. Enth...

### [Israel, Iran, and the Collapse of Old Norms](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/israel-iran-and-the-collapse-of-old-norms-with-osint-insights)
*Jun 16, 2025*
Strategic Signals Series: Decoding the world through OSINTThe following reflects insights one could draw from the current Israel-Iran conflict, based on open-so...

### [How Can Cyber Threat Intelligence Help Protect Critical Infrastructure](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/cyber-threat-intelligence-to-protect-critical-infrastructure)
*Jun 10, 2025*
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure have become increasingly frequent and sophisticated. These attacks can have devastating consequences, disrupting essenti...

### [Unlocking Strategic Advantage: The Value of Hard-to-Reach Data and How Babel Street’s ERA Makes It Possible](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/unlocking-strategic-advantage-the-value-of-hard-to-reach-data-and-how-babel-streets-era-makes-it-possible)
*Jun 4, 2025*
Access to timely, accurate, and region-specific data is not just a competitive advantage — it’s a strategic imperative. Yet, some of the most valuable insights ...

### [Transformative Business Search Delivers Profiles and Relationships](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/transformative-business-search)
*Jun 3, 2025*
Do you want to gain a holistic perspective of any company by uncovering hidden connections and deeper intelligence to make more informed decisions? Read on…We’r...

### [The Power of Sentiment Analysis to Accomplish Goals in Government, Law Enforcement, and Business](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/customer-sentiment-analysis-tool)
*May 23, 2025*
Customer sentiment analysis uses AI to uncover opinions, intent, and emotion hidden in unstructured text data.

### [The Power of Precise Identity Matching: Try for Free](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/power-of-precise-identity-matching)
*May 19, 2025*
Reserve your early access to the free trial of Babel Street Match, coming soonIn identity, compliance, and risk workflows, precision isn’t a nice-to-have — it's...

### [AI Text Analysis: Choosing the Right Tool for Business](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/choosing-the-right-ai-text-analysis-tool-for-business)
*May 13, 2025*
The ability to analyze text data efficiently and accurately is crucial for businesses looking to gain insights and make informed decisions. Artificial intellige...

### [Adverse Media Screening: Why is It so Critical?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-adverse-media-screening-is-so-critical)
*May 5, 2025*
Adverse media screening has become a critical component for financial institutions (FIs) aiming to maintain compliance and protect their reputation. This guide ...

### [Why OSINT Is the Federal Supply Chain Superpower You’re Overlooking](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-osint-is-the-federal-supply-chain-superpower-you-are-overlooking)
*Apr 22, 2025*
How open-source intelligence helps federal agencies reduce supply chain risk, improve transparency, and make faster, smarter decisions.

### [Transforming Modern Intelligence with Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/transforming-modern-intelligence-with-open-source-intelligence-osint)
*Apr 15, 2025*
The growing importance of OSINT

    The modern intelligence landscape demands more than secrecy — it demands clarity. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) has eme...

### [AI in Law Enforcement: 6 Top Challenges and AI-Driven Solutions](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-law-enforcement)
*Apr 1, 2025*
How AI helps law enforcement detect threats, analyze data, and solve crimes faster. Improve investigations with smarter, data-driven tools.

### [Mastering Online Investigations: Why Managed Attribution is Essential for Law Enforcement](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/mastering-online-investigations-why-managed-attribution-is-essential-for-law-enforcement)
*Mar 19, 2025*
The digital landscape has revolutionized how crimes are committed, making it more challenging for state and local law enforcement agencies to track and investig...

### [Unlock Untapped Potential: Why Your Company Should Partner with Babel Street](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-your-company-should-partner-with-us)
*Mar 12, 2025*
The global threat landscape is continually evolving, requiring sophisticated solutions for strategic threat intelligence, identity intelligence, and risk manage...

### [Understanding Chinese Name Matching: A Q&A with Gil Irizarry](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/understanding-complexities-of-chinese-name-matching)
*Feb 19, 2025*
Babel Street’s Chief Innovation Officer, Gil Irizarry spoke with our partner, IMTF, about the challenges of matching names in Chinese.

### [Beyond Web Scraping: Unlocking Hard-to-Reach Data with Advanced Strategies](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/beyond-web-scraping-data-strategy-for-business-and-government-intelligence)
*Feb 7, 2025*
Web scraping is an integral step on the road to obtaining insight. But it’s only one step.

### [Reliable and Verifiable OSINT: The New Standard](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/reliable-and-verifiable-osint-with-new-standard)
*Jan 24, 2025*
On December 2, 2024, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published a document that will fundamentally change the way open-source intellig...

### [Find New Market Insights Through Web Scraping](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/find-new-market-insights-through-web-scraping)
*Jan 21, 2025*
What is web scraping? It’s the act of extracting information from public-facing web sites. The process is necessary for obtaining alternative data — or unstruct...

### [Feature Spotlight: Batch People Search – Supercharging Insights for Efficiency and Precision](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/spotlight-on-batch-people-search)
*Jan 13, 2025*
Batch People Search in Babel Street Insights revolutionizes how organizations handle bulk people searches, empowering users to process multiple queries seamless...

### [Closing the Risk-Confidence Gap: Babel Street Introduces Symbol Substitution Matching](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/introduction-to-symbol-substitution-matching)
*Dec 26, 2024*
Symbol substitution matching enhances traditional name‑matching by recognizing symbols like @, #, and & as letter replacements. Learn how Babel Street Match uses this capability to improve identity resolution, detect fraud, and accurately match modern, stylized names across languages and digital environments.

### [Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Growth, Achievements, and Innovation at Babel Street](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/reflecting-on-2024-a-year-of-growth-achievements-and-innovation-at-babel-street)
*Dec 21, 2024*
As 2024 draws to a close, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on what has been an exciting and transformative year for Babel Street. With the help of our talente...

### [Taming the Naughty List: How Babel Street Helped Santa Check Twice](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/taming-naughty-list-with-name-matching)
*Dec 11, 2024*
One of our primary drivers at Babel Street is ensuring we solve customers’ problems with our cutting-edge technology. This year, we were presented with a missio...

### [Supply Chain Risk Management: Mitigating the Risk of Contested Logistics](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/mitigating-risk-of-contested-logistics)
*Dec 5, 2024*
What is contested logistics?  When one considers the headlines that dominated in 2024, one of the key themes was the Houthi campaign of attacks against civilian...

### [Using OSINT to Better Understand China’s Actions](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/osint-to-better-understand-china)
*Nov 15, 2024*
China’s expansionist political and military operations threaten the post-Cold War security valued by the United States and its allies. The balance of power in t...

### [What Is Alternative Data and How Is it Used?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-alternative-data)
*Oct 31, 2024*
The financial world is driven by data, and traditional sources have included company filings, press releases, analyst reports, and other structured data that is...

### [OSINT Techniques Reveal Russia’s Strategy to the World](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/osint-techniques-reveal-russian-strategy-to-the-world)
*Oct 22, 2024*
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) research and analysis found some Russian disinformation and this shows that Russia has vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

### [Using OSINT to Combat the Scourge of Gift Card Fraud](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/using-osint-to-combat-the-scourge-of-gift-card-fraud)
*Sep 12, 2024*
Consumers are sick of it.They walk into a big box store or drugstore. There, they see a tempting display of gift cards for sale — good at an array of popular re...

### [A Guide to GPS Spoofing Visibility in OSINT Tools](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/gps-spoofing-visibility-in-osint-tools)
*Aug 30, 2024*
Threats of GPS spoofing or GPS signal tampering can be controlled with help of OSINT tools and by detecting false signal.

### [Unraveling the Nexus: OSINT Tools and the Battle Against Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, and Cybercrime](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/unraveling-the-nexus-osint-tools-and-the-battle-against-human-trafficking-money-laundering-and-cybercrime)
*Aug 19, 2024*
The interconnection of human trafficking, money laundering, and cybercrimeWhen human trafficking occurs, it is often entangled with other crimes, such as cyberc...

### [Secure High-Profile Events with Open-Source Intel: New E-Book Shows You How](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/osint-to-secure-high-profile-events)
*Aug 15, 2024*
How OSINT technology analyses public and commercial data available and helps security professionals to identify threats & secure high-profile events.

### [Best Practices for PEP Screening with OSINT Tools](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/best-practices-of-pep-screening-with-osint-tools)
*Aug 13, 2024*
In recent years, financial institutions have faced more pressure to identify politically exposed persons (PEPs) to minimize financial crimes. Screening for thes...

### [Politically Exposed Persons: What are They and Why do Financial Institutions Need to Screen for Them?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/politically-exposed-persons-what-are-they-and-why-do-financial-institutions-need-to-screen-for-them)
*Aug 6, 2024*
In the intricate world of financial compliance, the term politically exposed person (PEP) has become more prominent. Financial institutions (FIs) must screen fo...

### [Open Source Intelligence: Public Data and the Rise of the New Sherlocks](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/open-source-intelligence-public-data-and-the-rise-of-the-new-sherlocks)
*Jul 22, 2024*
“It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true.”  Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League [1]In “The Red-Headed League,” Sherlock Holmes meets a new cl...

### [The Drawbacks of Levenshtein Distance Algorithms for Matching](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/drawbacks-of-levenshtein-distance-algorithms-for-name-matching)
*Jul 2, 2024*
Interest in edit distance algorithms has greatly increased with the popularity of word ladder games. These games provide a starting and ending word and ask the ...

### [Insider Threat Detection: A New Paradigm for Success](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/insider-threat-detection-a-new-paradigm-for-success)
*May 22, 2024*
On April 16, 2024, a group of people walked into the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and staged a sit-in. They were protesting Google’s contract with t...

### [New paper: AI-Powered Identity Intelligence Closes AML/KYC Risk-Confidence Gap](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/new-paper-ai-powered-identity-intelligences-closes-aml-kyc-risk-confidence-gap)
*May 17, 2024*
AI-powered identity intelligence solutions address the Risk-Confidence Gap, or the chasm between the amount of data FIs must examine to meet AML/KYC mandates, a...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products - The Nine-Dash Line](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/navigating-geographic-challenges-in-products-the-nine-dash-line)
*Apr 23, 2024*
In this final post showcasing issues I've frequently discussed in my professional work - we're back in China and looking at another geographic assertion — the N...

### [Taming the Dragon: Countering China’s Asymmetric Warfare](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/taming-the-dragon-countering-chinas-asymmetric-warfare)
*Apr 22, 2024*
In our previous post, we laid out why the United States is facing an emerging and powerful dragon, a dragon that seeks to become the most powerful global force ...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products: The Chinese Offset](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/navigating-geographic-challenges-in-maps-chinese-offset)
*Apr 12, 2024*
The Hybrid Satellite basemap option from Google Maps is a good way to display the offset because the transparency of the street layer betrays the misalignment M...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products: How South Korea’s National Security Concerns Affect Interactive Maps](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/navigating-geographic-challenges-in-products-south-korea-national-security)
*Apr 11, 2024*
Figure 1 Naver's navigation in English (2024) As an intelligence analyst, I wrote a piece about this six years ago to provide background for travelers headed to...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products – Geopolitics](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/navigating-geographic-challenges-in-products-geopolitics)
*Mar 21, 2024*
List of territorial disputes. (2024, February 10). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes This post breaks the mold of other t...

### [Facing The Dragon: Answering China’s Challenge](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/facing-the-dragon-answering-chinas-challenge)
*Mar 20, 2024*
On February 10, 2024, the dragon entered our world. Powerful, self-assured, and visionary, the dragon grants prosperity and longevity to those who follow him. T...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products - Accuracy and Precision](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/navigating-geographic-challenges-accuracy-versus-precision)
*Mar 12, 2024*
Welcome back to my series showcasing issues I've frequently encountered in my professional work that are seemingly obscure outside the geography community. In t...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products - Recommended Projections](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/navigating-geographic-challenges-in-products)
*Mar 8, 2024*
In my previous post, I discussed the basics of map projections in my series showcasing issues I've encountered in my professional work that are seemingly obscur...

### [Navigating Geographic Challenges in Products with a Spotlight on Projections](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/world-map-projection-challenges)
*Feb 29, 2024*
Welcome to the first post in a series I created to showcase issues I've frequently discussed in my professional work that are seemingly obscure outside the geog...

### [New AML Identity Verification Solutions Can Aid UK Problem Gamblers](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/identity-verification-solutions-for-uk-problem-gamblers)
*Feb 12, 2024*
New identity verification solutions developed to prevent money laundering can also aid problem gamblers in the UK. How? The solutions’ identity resolution and i...

### [Anti-money Laundering Solutions Help UK Gaming Operators Meet Government Guidance](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/anti-money-laundering-solutions-help-uk-gaming-operators-meet-government-guidance)
*Jan 26, 2024*
New guidance from the British government has gaming operators rethinking their anti-money laundering (AML) solutions.Brits love to gamble. They visit High Stree...

### [Babel Street and VK: A Match Made in Data Intelligence Heaven](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/babel-street-and-vk-a-match-made-in-data-intelligence-heaven)
*Jan 19, 2024*
We are thrilled to share that Vertical Knowledge (VK) and Babel Street are joining forces, combining two powerhouses in the field of data intelligence and risk ...

### [Putting AI to Work: How Babel Street is Revolutionizing Identity Intelligence and Risk Operations](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/putting-ai-to-work-how-babel-street-is-revolutionizing-identity-intelligence-and-risk-operations)
*Jan 17, 2024*
Babel Street has emerged as a trusted source to protect government agencies and enterprises from increasing threats using advanced AI and data analytics solutions.

### [Developing a Holistic Insider Risk Management Program Can Improve DoD Security](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/developing-a-holistic-insider-risk-management-program-can-improve-dod-security)
*Jan 2, 2024*
A holistic insider risk management program helps the DoD detect risks early and prevent threats before harm occurs.

### [AI-powered Social Media Monitoring Helps Prevent Mass Shootings](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/ai-powered-social-media-monitoring-helps-prevent-mass-shootings)
*Dec 18, 2023*
AI-driven social media monitoring can help surface warning signs and enable early intervention before violence occurs.

### [Match, Analyze, Score: Deploying an Effective Methodology for Threat Intelligence](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/match-analyze-score-deploying-an-effective-methodology-for-threat-intelligence)
*Dec 11, 2023*
Obtaining the identity, threat, and enterprise intelligence you need isn’t easy. Is the John Q. Smith applying for a new bank account the same John Q. Smith app...

### [Celebrate Anti-corruption Day with Technology that Helps Stop the Scourge](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/celebrate-anti-corruption-day-with-new-technology-that-helps-stop-the-scourge)
*Dec 1, 2023*
Corruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effects on societies. It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violations of h...

### [Japanese Names: Pronunciation & Writing Guide 2026](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-basics-of-japanese-names-how-they-are-chosen-written-and-read)
*Dec 1, 2023*
Learn how Japanese names work, including Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. Understand pronunciation challenges and improve name matching accuracy. Explore more.

### [Martyn’s Law: Using Babel Street Insights for Threat Awareness and Preparedness](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/martyns-law-using-babel-street-insights-for-threat-awareness-and-preparedness)
*Nov 16, 2023*
Awareness and preparedness are essential to preventing mass casualty events. However, as the volume of data – both structured and unstructured – around the worl...

### [OSINT Helps Law Enforcement Detect and Prevent Human Trafficking](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/osint-helps-law-enforcement-detect-and-prevent-human-trafficking)
*Nov 13, 2023*
In Cambodia, 10,000 people — often entire families, including children — work as bonded laborers in the massive brick kilns that fuel China’s construction indus...

### [Understanding the OEM Partner Opportunity for Babel Street Match](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/understanding-the-oem-partner-opportunity-for-rosette-name-indexer)
*Oct 16, 2023*
Partnering with Babel Street helps original equipment manufacturers build “successful revenue-generating solutions,” according to The Partner Opportunity For Ro...

### [Pairwise Name Matching Reduces Manual Compliance Remediation](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/pairwise-name-matching-reduces-manual-compliance-remediation)
*Oct 10, 2023*
BackgroundThe quality of name matching is the single most important factor in reducing risk, cost, and turnaround time in the know your customer (KYC) process. ...

### [Challenges of Name Matching in Uzbek](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/challenges-of-name-matching-in-uzbek)
*Oct 3, 2023*
Uzbek name matching is complex due to multiple scripts, patronymics, and wide transliteration variations.

### [Unlock the Power of Text Analytics: Babel Street AI Modules](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/unlock-the-power-of-babel-street-text-analytics-ai-modules)
*Sep 20, 2023*
Now more than ever, government and commercial sectors are asking for ways to quickly and accurately make sense of the global, multilingual data that originates ...

### [What is the Risk-Confidence Gap?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-the-risk-confidence-gap)
*Sep 19, 2023*
As anyone who works in intelligence knows, there’s a widening chasm between the escalating volume and variety of data that must be examined to obtain insight an...

### [Social Media Threat Monitoring and Sentiment Analysis Improves National Security](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/social-media-threat-monitoring-improves-national-security)
*Aug 4, 2023*
A foreign company advertises on Facebook, targeting impoverished people in your country with offers of suspiciously well-paying agricultural jobs or domestic po...

### [Enhancing Integrated Border Management with AI and Public Information](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/enhancing-integrated-border-management-with-ai-and-public-information)
*Jul 17, 2023*
What’s a national border for? Why do so many countries invest in integrated border management (IBM)?If you say, “To keep out the bad guys,” you’re only half rig...

### [Human-AI Collaboration Helps Chart a Path to Professional Excellence](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/human-ai-collaboration-helps-chart-a-path-to-professional-excellence)
*Jul 10, 2023*
Have you ever seen U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents working with dogs to scan an airport for drug couriers?The agents have been trained to look for cer...

### [AI in KYC for Community Banks](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/ai-in-kyc-for-community-banks)
*Jun 26, 2023*
AI enables community banks to modernize KYC with stronger identity verification, screening, and fraud prevention.

### [6 Reasons Why the DoD Needs Babel Street](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/6-reasons-why-the-dod-needs-babel-street)
*Jun 26, 2023*
What type of data and analytics technologies does your organization need if you want to meet the data strategy goals expressed by the Department of Defense?To m...

### [Best Practices for Tuning Name Matching Accuracy and Speed](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/best-practices-for-tuning-for-name-matching-accuracy-and-speed)
*Jun 21, 2023*
Babel Street Match offers myriad configuration options to improve name matching accuracy and speed. There is no single best setup. It depends largely on your bu...

### [Address These Five Name Matching Issues to Improve Border Security](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/address-these-five-name-matching-issues-to-improve-border-security)
*Jun 12, 2023*
Customs and border security have never been more important. Around the world, professionals from a broad variety of federal, state, and local governments strive...

### [Why Customs and Border Security Need AI-powered Natural Language Processing](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-customs-and-border-security-need-ai-powered-natural-language-processing)
*Jun 1, 2023*
AI-powered NLP helps border security improve name matching, reduce false positives, and detect threats.

### [Release Adds Team Collaboration to Event Extraction](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/analytics-adds-team-collaboration-to-event-extraction-increases-languages-for-name-matching)
*May 23, 2023*
Entity extraction helps you answer who it is quickly, accurately and conciselyEntity Extractor is a component within Babel Street Text Analytics (formerly Roset...

### [Unlock the Potential of Commercial Innovation in the Public Sector: Part 2 – Building a Public-Private Partnership](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/unlock-the-potential-of-commercial-innovation-in-the-public-sector-part-2-building-a-public-private-partnership)
*Apr 26, 2023*
In part 1 of this series, we asked three former senior officials from the intelligence community about their thoughts on how government agencies can unlock the ...

### [Babel Street Insights: The Future of Decision Intelligence](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/babel-street-insights-the-future-of-decision-intelligence)
*Apr 12, 2023*
As the world’s leading data-to-knowledge company, our singular focus is rooted in better serving our customer’s missions. Every day, we accelerate decision-maki...

### [Unlock the Potential of Commercial Innovation in the Public Sector: Part 1 – Security and Trust](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/unlock-the-potential-of-commercial-innovation-in-the-public-sector-part-1-security-and-trust)
*Apr 4, 2023*
While the U.S. federal government is developing and adopting new technologies at an unprecedented pace, it’s still challenging to capitalize on commercial innov...

### [How Named Entity Recognition Connects the Dots for Law Enforcement and Intelligence](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-named-entity-recognition-connects-the-dots-for-law-enforcement-and-intelligence)
*Mar 22, 2023*
Entity recognition helps link persons and organizations to the agency knowledge baseThe unknown “unknowns” keep law enforcement and intelligence professionals a...

### [What is Adverse Media Screening and Why It Matters to Financial Institutions](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-adverse-media-screening-and-why-it-matters-to-financial-institutions)
*Mar 21, 2023*
What is adverse media screening?Adverse media screening (AMS), also known as adverse media monitoring, is the process of querying global, reputable news sources...

### [3 Key Insights from the “Information and Insider Intelligence” Webinar](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/3-key-insights-from-the-information-and-insider-intelligence-webinar)
*Mar 9, 2023*
Driven by heightened international tensions and a growing competitive posture, today’s operations and intelligence leaders across government and commercial sect...

### [How Text Analytics and Machine Translation Made Multilingual eDiscovery 151% More Productive](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-text-analytics-and-machine-translation-made-multilingual-ediscovery-151-more-productive)
*Feb 23, 2023*
Attorneys performing multilingual eDiscovery face the constant challenge of having too much data for humans to review. With particularly large volumes of text, ...

### [How to Improve Name Matching with Integration for Elasticsearch](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-to-improve-name-matching-with-match-plugin-for-elasticsearch)
*Feb 22, 2023*
How to improve name matching?Many organizations operating in finance, national security, law enforcement and other industries want to know how to improve name m...

### [Modern Insider Threat Protection: Safeguard What Matters Most Using the Power of Technology](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/modern-insider-threat-protection-safeguard-what-matters-most-using-the-power-of-technology)
*Feb 15, 2023*
Driven by technological innovation and rising international uncertainty, today’s intelligence leaders face complex challenges in identifying and addressing insi...

### [Fine-tune your Name Match Threshold and Parameters](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/fine-tune-your-match-threshold-and-parameters)
*Feb 7, 2023*
Remember playing “Concentration” as a kid? It’s a tile-match game. Each player must turn over two tiles and remember their placement to win future rounds. It’s ...

### [Semantic Similarity Word Game Powered by Babel Street Text Analytics](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/semantic-similarity-word-game-powered-by-text-analytics)
*Jan 25, 2023*
Everybody loves games, which is why word games are such a valuable way to demonstrate natural language processing (NLP) concepts. At Hackathon 2022, Team 3 deci...

### [Time-saving Tools for Generating Training and Evaluation Data](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/time-saving-tools-for-generating-training-and-evaluation-data)
*Jan 18, 2023*
In the world of natural language processing, the strength of a model is limited by the quantity and quality of the data that goes into developing that model. Co...

### [Improved Visual Annotation Data Model Makes it Easier to Compare Entity Extractions](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/improved-visual-annotation-data-model-makes-it-easier-to-compare-entity-extractions)
*Jan 9, 2023*
It’s safe to say that every piece of human-facing software needs to be intelligible to humans. As far as technology has come, humans and computers still speak v...

### [Whooster Adds Horsepower Under the Hood](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/whooster-adds-horsepower-under-the-hood)
*Jan 5, 2023*
Continuous innovation at Babel Street means we will always continue improving our cutting-edge open-source intelligence solutions. You don’t stay on top by rest...

### [Tackling the Entity Disambiguation Challenge: A New Approach Shows Promise](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/tackling-the-entity-disambiguation-challenge-a-new-approach-shows-promise)
*Dec 29, 2022*
New research may improve entity disambiguation. It posits innovative ways for software to more easily and cost-effectively recognize and disambiguate entities t...

### [What is Lemmatization? Learn Why This Process is Vital to Language Processing](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-lemmatization-learn-why-this-process-is-vital-to-language-processing)
*Dec 22, 2022*
What is lemmatization?Heck, what’s a lemma? [Hint: not a cute, Arctic rodent]Lemmatization is the act of reducing words to their most essential forms by strippi...

### [What is Fuzzy Matching? Explore how Fuzzy Logic Boosts Name-matching Accuracy](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-fuzzy-matching-explore-how-fuzzy-logic-boosts-name-matching-accuracy)
*Dec 16, 2022*
What is fuzzy matching? And, why should you use it to connect names and resolve entities?“Fuzzy matching” can be a hard concept to describe because we’re accust...

### [The Five Questions You Must Answer to Take Full Advantage of OSINT](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-five-questions-you-must-answer-to-take-full-advantage-of-osint)
*Dec 8, 2022*
Are you fully leveraging open-source intelligence (commonly referred to as OSINT), or publicly available information, in support of your organizational mission?...

### [Name Matching Fails: The Lighter Side](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/name-matching-fails-the-lighter-side)
*Nov 17, 2022*
Name matching is vitally important. At Babel Street, we get that. We understand that financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, national security organiz...

### [Name Matching Fails: The Real-world Consequences](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/name-matching-fails-the-real-world-consequences)
*Nov 16, 2022*
Who needs name matching?There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet. Some of us are going to have the same name.This situation challenges financial institu...

### [Pattern-based Few-shot Entity Disambiguation Reduces Need for Large Data Sets](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/pattern-based-few-shot-entity-disambiguation-reduces-need-for-large-data-sets)
*Nov 9, 2022*
Babel Street hosted a gathering of the Boston NLP Group at its Somerville, MA office. The featured topics were Use Cases for Do It Yourself NLP and Pattern-Base...

### [What is Transliteration? Why Does it Matter? Take an Up-close Look.](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-transliteration-why-does-it-matter-take-an-up-close-look)
*Nov 3, 2022*
Consider the case of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber. Tsarnaev easily passed through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoint after landi...

### [AI in Finance Helps Institutions Combat Threats, Improve Compliance](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/ai-in-finance-helps-institutions-combat-threats-improve-compliance)
*Oct 26, 2022*
In this era of runaway inflation and looming recession, you’re probably not thinking, “Hey, what a great time to spend money! Let’s deploy AI in finance.”During...

### [Honoring the Green: A Cause Close to Our Hearts](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/honoring-the-green)
*Oct 19, 2022*
Babel Street returned as a corporate sponsor for the Border Patrol Foundation’s (BPF) recent annual charitable golf event, “Honoring the Green” held on Friday, ...

### [How Does Babel Street Match Calculate Scores?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-does-babel-street-match-calculate-scores)
*Oct 18, 2022*
Imagine that you’re responsible for determining whether the name Jesús Alfonso López Díaz matches a name on a credit report or a no-fly list. Naturally, you’d l...

### [Challenges of Southeast Asian Languages — Tagalog, Malay, and Indonesian — for Text Analytics](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/challenges-of-southeast-asian-languages-tagalog-malay-and-indonesian-for-text-analytics)
*Sep 28, 2022*
Babel Street Analytics supports three major Southeast Asian languages — Tagalog, Malay, and Indonesian — in its text analytics product line, in addition to Japa...

### [Seven Tips for Choosing Name Screening Technology](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/seven-tips-for-choosing-name-screening-technology)
*Sep 28, 2022*
What should you be looking for when evaluating and selecting a name screening solution?1. AccuracyAccuracy is the top concern when choosing a name screening sol...

### [AFCEA Appoints Babel Street’s Brian Plummer to Tech Committee](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/afcea-appoints-babel-streets-brian-plummer-to-tech-committee)
*Sep 14, 2022*
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) recently appointed Babel Street’s own Brian Plummer (Account Executive, DoD) to its Technolo...

### [Insights APIs Connect Any Application with Babel Street’s Enhanced PAI](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/new-insight-apis-connect-any-application-with-babel-streets-enhanced-pai)
*Sep 6, 2022*
Blending publicly available information with proprietary intelligence to inform more balanced insights is a strategically critical move for organizations and ag...

### [Babel Street Hackathon 2022: Rebus Solver Helps Understand Emoji](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/babelstreet-hackathon-2022-rebus-solver-helps-understand-emoji)
*Aug 31, 2022*
Rebuses have captivated puzzle fanatics for centuries. Until recently, all of those fanatics have been human. During Hackathon 2022, Team ? changed the game by ...

### [Fuzzy Search Names in Elasticsearch](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/fuzzy-search-names-in-elasticsearch-using-match)
*Aug 24, 2022*
Elasticsearch developers who want to fuzzy search names across multiple fields and cover the spectrum of name variations (sometimes two or more in a single name...

### [Babel Street Hackathon 2022: Integrated AI Agent Plays Text Adventure Games](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/babelstreet-hackathon-2022-babelstreet-integrated-ai-agent-plays-text-adventure-games)
*Aug 16, 2022*
It’s that time of year again: the Babel Street Hackathon 2022 has come and gone, and it’s safe to say it was a resounding success! Now, for the first time, we a...

### [How a No Code Platform Fostered Collaboration When Developing NLP Models](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-a-no-code-platform-fostered-collaboration-when-developing-nlp-models)
*Aug 11, 2022*
Babel Street recently hosted a gathering of the Boston NLP Group at its Somerville, MA office. The featured topics were Use Cases for Do It Yourself NLP, and Pa...

### [Semantic Search is Remedy for Keyword Inaccuracy in E-discovery](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/semantic-search-is-remedy-for-keyword-inaccuracy-in-e-discovery)
*Aug 8, 2022*
Semantic search is the aspirin to the headaches of keyword search in e-discovery. It is based on text embeddings, a natural language processing technology that ...

### [Six Ways Babel Street Expanded Services Drives Better, Faster Results](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/six-ways-babel-street-expanded-services-drives-better-faster-results)
*Jul 28, 2022*
More relevance, more accuracy, more speed — these outcomes are crucial to spotting and managing risk before it impacts operations. Babel Street is already deliv...

### [How to Measure Accuracy of Name Matching Technology and What to Know Before You Buy](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-to-measure-accuracy-of-name-matching-technology-and-what-to-know-before-you-buy)
*Jul 11, 2022*
If name matching or searching is mission critical for your business, the first question you’ll likely ask about any tool is, “How accurate is it?” However, what...

### [Three Keys to Staying Ahead of Risk Using PAI](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/3-keys-to-staying-ahead-of-risk-using-pai)
*Jun 22, 2022*
Risk is everywhere, from cyber-hacking, to counterfeit goods flooding the market, to threats against key personnel and more. Countering risk goes beyond prepari...

### [Why Japanese Transliteration of Foreign Names is Complex](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-japanese-transliteration-of-foreign-names-is-complex)
*Jun 8, 2022*
In a previous blog post, we looked at the Basics of Japanese Names: How They Are Chosen, Written, and Read. This post focuses on the challenges of name matching...

### [Applying NLP to Mental Health Diagnosis](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/applying-nlp-to-mental-health-diagnosis)
*May 25, 2022*
NLP can analyze speech patterns to help clinicians detect and assess mental health conditions more accurately.

### [FinCrime in Focus: Challenges in Screening](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/fincrime-in-focus-challenges-in-screening)
*May 13, 2022*
We hosted a discussion between Jeanne Le Garrec, Regional Director, ASEAN region at Babel Street and Hwee Kun Ho Head of Sales, APAC at Napier to discuss challe...

### [Adapt Babel Street Entity Extraction to Your Content for Increased Accuracy](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/adapt-text-analytics-entity-extraction-to-your-content-for-increased-accuracy)
*May 11, 2022*
Entity extraction is becoming a mission-critical tool for finding mentions of people, places, organizations, and products in massive quantities of text. In pate...

### [The Ukraine-Russia War Confirms the Value of OSINT](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-ukraine-russia-war-confirms-the-value-of-osint)
*Apr 19, 2022*
OSINT has emerged as an essential element of intelligence analysis as the Ukraine-Russia war confirms this with collection of data through PAI.

### [Executive Protection: Defend Against Physical, Digital, Global Threats](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/executive-protection-defend-against-physical-digital-global-threats)
*Mar 29, 2022*
Executive protection conjures up images of agents with earpieces driving black SUVs and talking into their wrists. But there’s much more to keeping VIPs and dig...

### [More than Name Matching: Match Intelligently Matches Postal Addresses and Dates](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/more-than-name-matching-match-intelligently-matches-postal-addresses-and-dates)
*Mar 21, 2022*
Astaire Avenue, Garland Drive, Lamarr Avenue, Skelton Circle, and Hepburn Circle are real street names in Culver City, CA, and are as equally prone to spelling ...

### [What is Entity Extraction?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-is-entity-extraction)
*Mar 16, 2022*
How it’s used and how it worksEntity extraction (aka, named entity recognition or NER) is a type of natural language processing technology that enables computer...

### [Linking In-house and Third-party Data to Streamline Success](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/linking-in-house-and-third-party-data-to-streamline-success)
*Feb 22, 2022*
Are you bumping into the walls of siloed data? Whether your company is grappling with legacy systems that don’t integrate or datasets from third-party sources w...

### [Russia Ukraine Disinformation](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/russia-ukraine-disinformation)
*Feb 18, 2022*
Disinformation campaigns include the potential humanitarian crisis and the human rights abuses that could affect the political situation.

### [From OSINT Skeptic to Open-Source True Believer](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/from-osint-skeptic-to-open-source-true-believer)
*Feb 10, 2022*
I’ve recently become a believer in open-source intelligence (OSINT) but this hasn’t always been the case. I spent 34 years in the U.S. intelligence community as...

### [Spotlight: An Inside Look at Babel Street’s Engineering Team](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/spotlight-an-inside-look-at-babelstreet-engineering-team)
*Jan 20, 2022*
How often do engineers get the opportunity to connect and work with customers?In many companies, it’s common for engineers to write code and fulfill requests, b...

### [Name Matching Isn’t a Silver Bullet](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/name-matching-isnt-a-silver-bullet)
*Jan 11, 2022*
High false positives, missed risks, and human error show why name matching alone fails—and how organizations can strengthen screening programs.

### [The #1 Obstacle to Accurate Name Screening Isn’t Data: It’s Search](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-1-obstacle-to-accurate-name-screening-isnt-data-its-search)
*Dec 16, 2021*
Many organizations assume poor name screening results stem from bad data—but the real issue is how names are searched. Traditional full-text and fuzzy search methods struggle with variations, transliterations, and cultural nuances, leading to missed matches and false positives.

### [Name Matching Gets a Shot in the ARM (Chip)](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/name-matching-gets-a-shot-in-the-arm-chip)
*Dec 7, 2021*
How how ARM chip support accelerates name matching performance while reducing compute costs and energy use.

### [Iran Counts on Bitcoin to Evade Sanctions](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/iran-counts-on-bitcoin-to-evade-sanctions)
*Nov 30, 2021*
“Bitcoin is the money of the people,” explained a professor of computer science in Tehran.[1] This idea has been touted since the creation of digital currency i...

### [Babel Street Receives Gold and Silver Excellence in Learning Awards](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/babel-street-receives-gold-and-silver-excellence-in-learning-awards)
*Aug 26, 2021*
Company received two awards from the Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Awards

### [What's Behind That Search Box](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/whats-behind-that-search-box)
*Aug 19, 2021*
Search is ubiquitous. 
So prevalent in our daily lives, some of us don’t stop to think about what’s behind the search box. For some – whether it’s corporate dec...

### [Publicly Available Information Explained](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/pai-explained)
*Jul 30, 2021*
Every day, billions of people and countless devices create an ocean of data. The scale is unprecedented—IDC predicts 463 exabytes* will be generated every day b...

### [Evolution and Formation of Hebrew Names and Nicknames](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/evolution-and-formation-of-hebrew-names-and-nicknames)
*Jul 20, 2021*
Like many other languages and cultures, Hebrew names have been influenced by languages of countries where Jewish people lived, but also by the fact that within ...

### [How to Write Annotation Guidelines for Entity Extraction](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-to-write-annotation-guidelines-for-entity-extraction)
*Jun 8, 2021*
Writing annotation guidelines for entity extraction for adverse media screening in financial complianceAs much as we love to think our machine learning algorith...

### [We Don’t Let Customers Fail: Why Training is Essential to a Successful Customer Experience](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/we-dont-let-customers-fail-why-training-is-essential-to-a-successful-customer-experience)
*May 20, 2021*
Tools are only as good as their operators, and operators are only as good as their training. That’s why investments in training are so important. After all, whe...

### [Misinformation & Disinformation Explained](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/misinformation-disinformation-explained)
*Apr 1, 2021*
Understand misinformation vs. disinformation, how they spread, and why the differences matter today.

### [The Top NLP Mistake Made by Data Scientists](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-top-nlp-mistake-made-by-data-scientists)
*Nov 24, 2020*
When the conclusions seem “off,” is it bad data science or faulty NLP?In the age of big data, high-quality results from natural language processing (NLP) data e...

### [Building a More Useful Hebrew Transliteration Scheme](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/building-a-more-useful-hebrew-transliteration-scheme)
*Aug 14, 2020*
When the Babel Street Match (formerly Rosette) team set out to build a Hebrew-to-Latin character translator, one of the first considerations was: Which Hebrew t...

### [Faster Annotation with Model Training Suite](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/faster-annotation-with-model-training-suite)
*Aug 4, 2020*
Understanding annotationProducing quality training data to produce accurate models takes up the lion’s share of human labor and time in the entire process. This...

### [A Day in the Life of… Building a New Entity Extraction Model](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-building-a-new-entity-extraction-model)
*Apr 7, 2020*
A peek through the eyes of our linguistics data engineerSwedish model building by the numbers3 annotators5 engineers and project managers840 annotator hours5 ca...

### [Evaluating NLP for Named Entity Recognition, Part 3: It’s More Than a Score](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/make-your-choice-its-more-than-a-score-for-evaluating-nlp)
*Feb 25, 2020*
Explore the factors to take into consideration before you choose your NLP so that it can successfully fulfill your needs.

### [Evaluating NLP for Named Entity Recognition, Part 2: Annotating and Scoring](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/evaluating-nlp-annotating-evaluation-data-and-scoring-results)
*Feb 18, 2020*
In our previous blog post, we discussed the importance of defining your requirements for your NLP evaluation. In short, can you describe what “perfectly perform...

### [Evaluating NLP for Named Entity Recognition, Part 1: Requirements and Test Data](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/evaluating-nlp-assembling-a-test-dataset)
*Feb 12, 2020*
How do you know if a given natural language processing (NLP) package will do what you need? How can you evaluate it and justify your choice? This three-part blo...

### [Deep Learning Brings Fuzzy English-to-Japanese Name Matching Into Focus](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/deep-learning-brings-fuzzy-english-to-japanese-name-matching-into-focus)
*Jan 7, 2020*
Matching thousands of Latin-based names to their Japanese equivalent is a very specific and troublesome problem. It is one of many “edge cases” (i.e., a specifi...

### [What’s in a Persian Name?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/whats-in-a-persian-name)
*Sep 23, 2019*
By guest author, computational linguist, and NLP engineer Zina SaadiHow Persian names are composed from history, social class, religious affiliation, and geogra...

### [What’s the Difference Between Entity Extraction (NER) and Entity Resolution?](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-entity-extraction-ner-and-entity-resolution)
*Jul 29, 2019*
Entity extraction, or named entity recognition (NER), is finding mentions of key “things” (aka “entities”) such as people, places, organizations, dates, and tim...

### [Duplicate Document Detection and Cross-lingual Search](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/duplicate-document-detection-and-cross-lingual-search)
*Feb 4, 2019*
Text embeddings enable duplicate detection and cross-lingual search by comparing the meaning of documents, not just words.

### [Hungarian Names: Challenges For Fuzzy Name Matching](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/hungarian-names-challenges-for-fuzzy-name-matching)
*Dec 17, 2018*
The U.S. might pride itself on being a “melting pot” of cultures, but when it comes to a melting pot for names, Hungary is king.To start, Hungarians (or Magyars...

### [The Most Effective Entity Extraction Techniques](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-most-effective-entity-extraction-techniques)
*Aug 2, 2018*
There is multiple entity extraction software are available but Hybrid entity extraction methods which is ideal for extracting one or several entity types.

### [Analyzing Thai Names: Superstition, History, and Foreign Influence](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/analyzing-thai-names-superstition-history-and-foreign-influence)
*Jul 25, 2018*
Names are inherently complex to analyze, match, and resolve in any language, but Thai names in particular are uniquely challenging to understand and match. Nami...

### [What Does It Mean to Support Persian Text Analytics](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/what-does-it-mean-to-support-persian-text-analytics)
*Jun 27, 2018*
A language with many namesThe modern Persian language has a lengthy history, with spoken roots going back 4,000-5,000 years. Since then, the language has evolve...

### [The Difficulty of Persian Sentiment Analysis](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-difficulty-of-persian-sentiment-analysis)
*Jun 22, 2018*
Political and linguistic challenges to accessing Persian dataPersian sentiment analysis joined the Persian text analytics capabilities in Babel Street Analytics...

### [Searching, Matching, and Analyzing Greek Names](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/searching-matching-and-analyzing-greek-names)
*May 4, 2018*
Understanding Greek naming traditionsGreek names are getting more attention these days as more Greek citizens bank internationally. Why? Intelligent name matchi...

### [Happy Birthday, Soundex!](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/happy-birthday-soundex)
*Apr 12, 2018*
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the first phonetic name matching patentOne hundred years ago on April 12, 1918, the patent for Soundex, the first phonetic nam...

### [Understanding the Difference Between Open and Targeted Relationship Extraction](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/understanding-the-difference-between-open-and-targeted-relationship-extraction)
*Feb 16, 2018*
Who’s in your data, and how are they connected?You may have heard about relationship extraction and wondered what this natural language processing (NLP) innovat...

### [Fuzzy Name Matching Techniques](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/fuzzy-name-matching-techniques)
*Dec 12, 2017*
Methods of name matching and their strengths and weaknessesIn a structured database, names are often treated the same as metadata for some other field like an e...

### [A Smarter Approach to Linguistic Comparison and Word Clouds](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/a-smarter-approach-to-linguistic-comparison-and-word-clouds)
*Nov 16, 2017*
New community recipe enables vocabulary comparison and word cloud generationEvery individual has a unique way of speaking and writing based upon their experienc...

### [A Document’s Vital Stats: Keyphrases and Concepts](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/a-documents-vital-stats-keyphrases-and-concepts)
*Oct 25, 2017*
Topics endpoint enables summarization, content organization, and trend analysisWe are creating new content online at an unprecedented rate. Globally, we compose...

### [Name Search for the Modern Health Agency](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/names-search-for-the-modern-health-agency)
*Sep 6, 2017*
Storing, accessing and sharing electronic medical data with intelligent patient matchingIn the age of smartphones, cloud storage, and the internet of things, we...

### [Word Embeddings for Fuzzy Matching of Organization Names](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/word-embeddings-for-fuzzy-matching-of-organization-names)
*Aug 2, 2017*
Babel Street Match is enhanced by word embeddings to match names based on semantics as well as phonetics. Tracking mentions of particular organizations across n...

### [Support for “Arabizi” Script](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/support-for-arabizi-script)
*Jun 26, 2017*
Tackling the challenge of Arabic chat written in Latin scriptThe Arabic chat language, known as “Arabizi” or “Arabish,” is a casual version of written Arabic th...

### [How Emoji Reflects Our Evolving Society](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/how-emoji-reflects-our-evolving-society)
*Jun 19, 2017*
What does it mean to lemmatize and normalize emoji for text analytics?Emoticons ? and emoji ?? add a bit of the nonverbal communication that humans inherently c...

### [Fundamentals of Understanding, Translating and Matching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Names](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/fundamentals-of-understanding-translating-and-matching-chinese-japanese-and-korean-names)
*Jun 7, 2017*
When we talk about cross-lingual name matching between English and Japanese, it’s pretty straightforward, and pretty obvious which name is in English and which ...

### [Using Deep Learning to Power Multilingual Text Embeddings for Global Analysis, Part II](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/using-deep-learning-to-power-multilingual-text-embeddings-for-global-analysis-part-ii)
*Mar 21, 2017*
Wait! Have you read Part I yet? Check it out, then come on back.Putting text embeddings to workUsing the updated text embeddings endpoint in Babel Street Analyt...

### [Using Deep Learning to Power Multilingual Text Embeddings for Global Analysis, Part I](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/using-deep-learning-to-power-multilingual-text-embeddings-for-global-analysis-part-i)
*Mar 15, 2017*
A crash course in basic text embeddingsA chronic problem with using machines to analyze human language is that the same meaning can be expressed using many diff...

### [The Key Ingredient to Searching and Processing Chinese Text](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/the-key-ingredient-to-being-able-to-search-and-process-all-chinese-text)
*Dec 13, 2016*
Converting between simplified and traditional Chinese scriptsA Brit’s “I’m going to have a kip” is nearly incomprehensible to most Americans. No wonder people s...

### [An Elasticsearch Integration for Simple Fuzzy Name Matching](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/an-elasticsearch-plugin-for-simple-fuzzy-name-matching)
*Nov 23, 2015*
Normalization is crucial to high quality search results — who wants irrelevant variations between queries and documents leading to missed hits (e.g., “celebrity...

### [Accurate Language Identifier for Queries & Tweets](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/accurate-language-detection-for-queries-tweets)
*Nov 24, 2014*
The language identification function in Babel Street Text Analytics has been improved to solve the problem of language detection for short texts. Existing langu...

### [How Translation Introduces Loss And Can Distort Meaning](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/god-is-not-divine-the-pope-is-not-catholic-how-translation-introduces-loss-and-can-distort-meaning)
*Nov 5, 2014*
Pope Francis has grabbed many headlines by discussing what appear to be bold changes to Catholic doctrine. However, one recent headline would make it sound like...

### [A Better Pure Java RegEx Engine](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/a-better-pure-java-regex-engine)
*Oct 30, 2014*
Regular expressions are ubiquitous in NLP, not to mention many miscellaneous text-processing tasks. People use regular expressions as a quick solution to matchi...

### [Why Tokenization Matters](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/why-tokenization-matters)
*Jun 12, 2013*
Search is increasingly becoming the first and most important way to access information. Because of the ubiquity of Google, the depth and breadth of Amazon and t...

### [Delivering More Accurate Search Results with Lemmatization](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/delivering-more-accurate-search-results-with-lemmatization)
*May 10, 2013*
Many of our commercial and government customers are building extremely powerful and efficient search engines for their own internal or customer’s data. Whether ...

### [Understanding Pashto and Dari Names: A Challenge to Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan](https://www.babelstreet.com/blog/understanding-dari-and-pashto-names-a-challenge-to-intelligence-gathering-in-afghanistan)
*Sep 20, 2012*
Shakespeare asked “What’s in a name?” It turns out there’s a lot in the name of a typical Afghani including common nouns and personal titles — not used as title...