Founded in 2019, Ascender.AI brings together powerful machine learning tools to change the way we interact with and discover information. A powerful and flexible ingest engine allows us to work with any data source.<p>Our goal is to transform search into an interactive experience. Our visualization allows you to drill down and refine results, and always preserves the original document. We process videos and tag them using facial recognition, translate documents on ingest, and cluster them.<p>A touch driven interface turns data search into true exploration.<p>The rendering of text in the experience is driven by Named Entity Recognition, part of speech tagging, and text summarization.<p>Clustering is performed by topic based on BERT embeddings in a force directed graph.<p>The engine is written in typescript and python. We use data from several proprietary media monitoring platforms.<p>News articles and videos are from several sources.<p>NewsAPI.org provides broad headline news coverage.<p>Our partner company AppTek captures many Arabic language broadcast TV news channels from satellite, which are speech recognized in Arabic, machine translated into English, and used as multilingual content for our system. We scrape many text news sources from the web.