Nuix announced its decision to buy Topos Labs, Inc. (Topos), a developer of natural language processing (NLP) software that helps computer systems better understand text and spoken words at speed and scale.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, Topos designed its artificial intelligence (AI) driven NLP platform to reduce the workload on data reviewers and analysts by surfacing relevant or risky content faster. Its mission is to provide customers with risk-oriented content intelligence for proactive risk management and regulatory compliance.

The addition to Topos to our already extensive software platform will, as you’ll see, play a noticeable role in making the lives of our users easier. Whether you’re tasked with conducting internal corporate investigations, handling legal discovery review or ensuring your organization is meeting its risk and regulatory obligations, Topos’ NLP capabilities and integration with Nuix in the coming months will be something to pay attention to.

POWERFUL ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION
The platform, which is still in the early stages of its development, can already automate accurate analysis and classification of complex content in documents, electronic communications and social media. Business users can directly define NLP models through the software’s no-code user interface, reducing the time required to identify risk in the organization’s data. From there, it can present the risk assessment of confidential, sensitive and regulated content in user-friendly dashboards.

“The acquisition of Topos is an exciting evolution in Nuix’s journey,” said David Sitsky, Nuix Engineering Founder and Chief Scientist. “Integrating the Nuix Engine’s ability to process vast quantities of unstructured data with the next generation NLP capabilities of Topos will be game-changing for Nuix’s product portfolio.”

“Topos will strengthen Nuix’s product offering by helping customers get to relevant data even faster,” added Rod Vawdrey, Nuix Global Group CEO. “The potential for user-friendly dashboards and for users to easily customize the software to their specific needs also reflects Nuix’s focus on empowering our customers to search through unstructured data at speed and scale. We look forward to Christopher Stephenson [Topos CEO] and his talented team joining Nuix.”

WELCOMING THE TOPOS TEAM
As part of the deal the Topos team, including members of senior management, joined Nuix. By welcoming the Topos team and integrating the NLP capability at this stage of its development, Nuix can optimize the technology to benefit its investigations, eDiscovery and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) customers, further enhancing the unstructured data processing power of the Nuix Engine.

“We are delighted to join Nuix and are excited about combining our innovative NLP platform with the Nuix platform,” said Christopher Stephenson, CEO, Topos Labs. “Along with my talented engineering and product team, I look forward to deploying Topos to further enhance Nuix’s powerful processing capabilities and to being part of a global leader in investigative analytics and intelligence software.”

Source: https://www.nuix.com/blog/natural-language-processing-acquisition-opens-doors-nuix-product-roadmap