About us

We are an innovation partner and we help our clients improve their business through innovative use of search and related technologies.

Our background is in search engine R&D and we have 12 years combined experience with search R&D and applying search to leading businesses in several industries.

Our core competency

We know these things:

• Search technology & IR
• Natural language processing
• Japanese morphological analysis
• Recommendation engines
• Data mining & analytics

Technologies we use

We often use these technologies:

• Apache Lucene & Solr
• FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP)
• Kuromoji morphological analyzer 0.7.7
• Apache Hadoop, Mahout, Hive, etc.
• Apache Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB
• Java, Linux, Open Source Software (OSS)

Consulting services

Search consulting

We have 12 years of experience with search and can provide a broad range of consulting services, including:

• Search best practices / search business consulting
  • How to apply search effectively in a given industry
• Solution architecture and implementation
  • Installation, configuration, content integration, etc.
• Customisations and feature development
  • Japanese linguistics, custom plugins, custom ranking, etc.
• Safe technology migrations
  • Safely migrating a critical FAST ESP system to Solr, Sharepoint or MarkLogic
• Operations, upgrades, tuning and benchmarking
  • Large scale and fault-tolerant deployments

Data analytics consulting

We can help you get a better understanding of your business, your customers by acquiring and analysing data.

By means of ADA we can quickly collect, analyse and visualise the data points you would like to explore. In our own experience, we often uncover valuable information and insights you didn't expect to find.

We provide clients with a licensed copy of ADA in our data analytics projects.

Advanced and custom R&D

We also do custom development for clients in these fields:

• New service concepts and prototype development
• Natural language processing & computational linguistics
• Machine learning, data mining and analysis

Have an interesting R&D project? Please contact us for a talk.

Products

Kuromoji - Japanese morphological analyzer

Kuromoji is a pure Java open source morphological.

• Segmentation is designed for search (関西国際空港 => 関西、国際、空港)
• Self-contained single JAR-file distribution (also includes dictionary)
• Integrated perfectly with Apache Lucene & Solr
• Open source software with Apache License 2.0

Akahai - Japanese query suggestion engine

Query suggestion/autocomplete engine designed for Japanese.

• Gives suggestions across hiragana, katakana, kanji and also romaji
• Automatically extracts readings for kanji through morphological analysis
• Integrates with any search engine and database
• Has a REST/JSON interface and integrates perfectly with jQuery
• Very high performance matching

Akahai is powering suggestions on NEC BIGLOBE, serving millions users daily.

ADA - Atilika Data Analytics

Super-agile toolkit for NoSQL big data analytics that gets you from raw logs to visual analytics in 30 minutes.

• Built by engineers for engineers - focuses on the data and analytics
• Supports various analytics backends, including Hadoop, Hive and MongoDB
• Interactive presentation layer is driven by REST, JSON and JavaScript
• Has a suite of out-of-the-box analytics that can be used on your data
• Supports IP to location mapping (country, city, lat, long), user-agent string parsing, etc.
• Integrates with Flume event collection framework
• Runs well on Amazon EC2 and other clouds