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Ravn ACE

Product
The name of the base system (platform): Artificial intelligence (AI, Artificial intelligence, AI)
Developers: Ravn Systems

2017: Use of the Ravn ACE system for corruption investigation

In February, 2017 it became known of use of the Ravn ACE system by the British authorities for corruption investigation. The technology was tested on the British producer of aircraft engines Rolls-Royce.

The British Bureau on fight against fraud in especially large sizes (SFO) for the first time applied the automated system of Ravn ACE intended for selection and indexing of documents and extraction of knowledge from them. Using the program, seven specialists processed 600 thousand documents a day. In total in the automatic mode about 30 million materials were analyzed. Earlier such information had to be processed manually.

Британские власти применяют artificial intelligence for corruption disclosure

Ravn ACE is capable to process documents quicker than the person and allows to exclude the errors caused by a human factor. A system based on machine learning technologies understands and automatically takes information from the text, tables and images.

As the CEO of Ravn Systems David Lumsden reported, the software of the company helped lawyers and investigators to sort documents on "important" and "unimportant". Such work requiring big labor costs of people would be executed by them for many months, and Ravn ACE considerably accelerated process, he noted.

Investigation into the case of corruption and fraud of Rolls-Royce is conducted since 2012. The company was accused of bribery to officials in 12 countries of the world. Rolls-Royce admitted guilt and agreed to pay the penalty exceeding $800 million.

Rolls-Royce is the second in market share producer of aviation engines in the world. It is not connected with the producer of the luxury Rolls-Royce cars. These two companies were separated in 1971, now the Rolls-Royce cars are made by the division of BMW corporation of the same name.

According to the Financial Times edition, in SFO intend to continue work with Ravn ACE for investigation of res novas about corruption.[1]

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