FRONTEO Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto, hereinafter FRONTEO) has started "OSINT research" with three pillars: SNS analysis, corporate information analysis, and personnel information analysis. .. With the cooperation of Professor Takayuki Mizuno, who became our technical advisor in May 3, and Professor Yoshinobu Kano, Department of Behavioral Information, Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University, we will conduct research for the purpose of monitoring companies and personal connections, and analyzing public opinion and trends.

OSINT is an abbreviation for Open Source Intelligence (investigation based on public information), and it has meaning from a collection of fragmentary data by collecting and analyzing publicly available information such as newspapers, magazines, television, and the Internet. Get information.More and more companies are using the information they get in a legitimate way to get useful information about their companies and use it to analyze their competitors.

FRONTEO analyzes corporate trends from various media such as corporate securities reports, shareholder information, public relations information, newspapers, magazines, and online media, and also analyzes public opinion on specific topics from public information such as SNS. , We will work on research and development of a model that predicts the mutation in advance.

Research background and goals

FRONTEO's original AI "KIBIT" mainly for text analysis^®AI "Concept Encoder (registered trademark: concept encoder)" that also supports co-analysis of text and numerical data.^®, Reading: Concept Encoder) ”, we have developed many solutions to extract meaningful information for users from a huge amount of data, and have been working on solving social issues.Its application range is expanding not only to the legal tech field, which has been a business since its founding, but also to the business field and life science field, which have issues such as operational efficiency and cost reduction.

By conducting research on the application destinations of the natural language processing technology that FRONTEO has cultivated in this way with advice from Professor Mizuno and Professor Kano, we will summarize the research results by the end of 2020 and not only make strategic decisions for companies. We aim to develop and launch solutions that can contribute to the policy making of governments and government agencies.

Flow of open data analysis

About technical advisors

Professor Takayuki Mizuno is also involved in OSINT research as a leading expert in computational social science and econophysics, and has a lot of knowledge about issues related to open source.In recent years, we have been conducting research to determine corporate trends, networks between companies, and control relationships based on information collected from databases containing company information.

Dr. Yoshinobu Kano, in addition to researching the basic technology of natural language processing, has the theme of "application and basic system of natural language processing" as its application research, text mining of papers and specialized documents, medical language information processing, and websites. We are conducting research on text mining of SNS data and SNS data.

• FRONTEOabout　URL: https://www.fronteo.com/

FRONTEO is an in-house developed AI engine "KIBIT" that specializes in natural language processing.^®"And" concept encoder^®Is a data analysis company that supports the business of a company by extracting meaningful and important information from a huge amount of text data using. Since its establishment in August 2003, it has been expanding globally to Japan, the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan, focusing on legal tech businesses such as "e-discovery (electronic evidence disclosure)" and "digital forensic investigation" that support international litigation of companies. Has been deployed.Based on the AI ​​technology cultivated in the legal tech business, we will expand the business field to the life science field and business intelligence field from 8, and use AI to "turn text data into knowledge" to support drug discovery. , Dementia diagnosis support, financial, personnel, sales support, etc., contributing to solving various corporate issues. Listed on TSE Mothers on June 2014, 2007.The capital is 6 thousand yen (as of March 26, 2,568,651).