Supported Functions

Tisane is a powerful Natural Language Understanding (NLU) platform, designed from scratch for social media / user-generated text: ungrammatical, possibly obfuscated (e.g. algospeak), and heavy on slang and errors. Tisane's main applications are content moderation and law enforcement/national security/intelligence.

All features are available across all supported languages. All output is provided in one call.

Core Functionality

Tisane offers sophisticated capabilities for abuse detection, sentiment analysis, and entity recognition:

• Detect problematic content for content moderation and investigations:

  • Personal attacks, insults, cyberbullying
  • Hate speech
  • Profanity
  • Sexual advances
  • Adult only references
  • Criminal activity (trade in restricted items like drugs, firearms, etc.)
  • Threats
  • Allegations (whether libel or not)
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Solicitation of contact outside the current media or platform
  • Graphic depictions of violence
  • Forceful assertions of hierarchy (e.g. workplace bullying)
  • Data leaks (e.g. PII exfiltration, exposure of credentials)
  • Spam

• Detect named entities and find relations between them:

  • people
  • organizations
  • social roles (titles, occupations, etc.)
  • places
  • phone numbers
  • credit card numbers
  • dates
  • amounts of money
  • items of interest in investigations (drugs, weapons, vehicles)
  • cryptocurrency addresses
  • more

• Detect topics (Subjects/Themes/Domains)

• Sentiment analysis (positive, negative, or mixed), including

  • sentiment expressed towards specific aspects or entities within the text. (Aspect-based sentiment analysis)

Deep Linguistic Analysis

Tisane also provides access to linguistic fundamentals:

• Inteligent sentence splitting
  • Provides original sentences and their corrected versions (if applicable).
  • Uses non-breaks to avoid false positives (e.g. EE. UU. or www.google.com)
• Lexical chunking
  • Tokenizes sentences by morpheme
  • Supports all types of segmentation:
    • languages using white spaces
    • languages not using white spaces (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Thai)
    • languages using compounds (German, Dutch, Afrikaans)
    • clitics
    • multiword expressions
    • nondictionary entities (emails, phone numbers, etc.)
• Parse Trees and Phrases
  • Offers hierarchical representations of sentence structure, highlighting phrases and their relationships.
  • Extracts noun phrases, verbal phrases, prepositional phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases.
• Words
  • Provides detailed information about each word (or lexical chunk), including its lemma, role in the sentence, and grammatical features.
• Sense disambiguation
  • Detects the sense for every word in the current context.