Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Turkish

Botego, established in 2007 as an incorporation, is focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies and provides software solutions based on its proprietary algorithms.

Botego’s main products are Virtual Agents, Automated E-mail Reply Agent, Document Indexing and Search, Natural Language Search. Our products are used both within the companies (intranet) as a knowledge management tool/portal or opened directly to end users (internet) to provide technical and non-technical support.

We also offer access to our Turkish Natural Language Processing engine via an API.

Milestones:

• Botego was one of 25 nominees in the short list of the competition ‘Fast Fish Awards’ among 700 companies, held by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in 2008.

• Knowledgebase application developed for Avea Call Center was nominated in IMI Call Center Awards for the category of ‘Best Call Center Technology’ in 2009.

• One of our virtual online agents developed for Johnson&Johnson was one of 365 marketing projects nominated in Global James E. Burke Awards in 2010.

• TEB (Subsidiary of BNP Paribas) was awarded for the category of ‘Best Call Center Development Performance’ in IMI Call Center Awards in 2012 via our data center application being used for one year.

• Botego was one of 10 companies among 200 companies in the organization of Turktechnet (turktechnet.org) in New York in 2002. Therefore, it had the opportunity of joining to the Accelerated Investment Training Camp sponsored by TEB in May 2002 in order to present the company activities to the investors in USA.

• Following an investment round from Sestek, Botego Inc. was established in New York and started its operations in North America.

Our Projects Supported by Public Institutions:

• Our project ‘Content-sensitive interaction robot’, enabling the development process of interactive robot with automated tagging method based on natural language processing, was funded 75% by TUBITAK under the 1507 – SME R&D Starting Support Program in May 11th 2010.

• The same project was also funded by a long term loan from The Foundation of Turkish Technology Development (TTGV) in August 20 th

2010.

• Botego, as one of the three R&D partners, is currently involved in an EU- funded project called Linked2Media under the 7th Framework Program (FP7) in November 30th 2011, aiming to tap into the vast user-generated content and interpret information posted on blogs, social networks and social media in Europe and beyond.

• KOSGEB supported Botego’s automated e-mail answering software ‘Hazircevap’ under the R&D Innovation Support in February 2012.

• The project we presented to ARDEB 1003 R&D Support Program by the collaboration of Dogus University in July 2012 was one of the 64 projects passed the first round.

Customers:

E.ON (France, Germany), Johnson&Johnson (o.b., Clean&Clear), Coca Cola, Unilever (Lipton), FOX, LeasePlan, Turk Telecom, TEB (Subsidiary of BNP Paribas) and many others from United States, France, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria.

Contact info:

115 E 23rd St. New York – NY Phone: +1 646 932 9604

YTU Teknopark C1-108 Davutpasa – IstanbulPhone: +90 212 227 0278Fax: +90 212 355 8318

e-mail: team@botego.comweb: Botego.comTwitter: @botego