Riverglass

Riverglass, Inc. is a software company that makes data analysis applications currently used by customers in several fields.

Companies use RiverGlass Recon to find, collect, and analyze text information from the web and internal document repositories using text analytics. A variety of techniques are used to perform this analysis, e.g., semantic technology, domain ontologies, natural language processing, document summarization, information extraction, text classification, and clustering for relevance feedback.

U.S. law enforcement agencies use RiverGlass Recon to analyze text on the web, and use RiverGlass Detect to pull together information from multiple internal and external databases using a form of federated query. RiverGlass Detect also uses a variety of text and data analytics such as link analysis and machine learning to bring together information from both structured data and unstructured data sources. These agencies use the programs in drug prohibition enforcement efforts, as well as the combating of violent crime and terrorism. These programs are not used to monitor internet communications, only to gather information from the web and from internal databases. [http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=5368] [http://www.riverglassinc.com/]

The company was based on some technologies developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and has received venture capital from IllinoisVENTURES.