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| AppTek Will Be Attending the Ninth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) |
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| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 09:38 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AppTek Will Be Attending the Ninth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) AppTek, as a proud sponsor and major AMTA supporter, will have its Chief Scientist presenting at the Machine Translation industry’s key U.S. conference. MCLEAN, VA. (October 27, 2010) – AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT) providing machine translation and automated speech recognition products, is proud to announce its premier sponsorship and involvement in the Ninth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), scheduled for October 31st—November 4, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. AMTA’s annual conference is the industry’s main conference for Machine Translation users, vendors and researchers. Hassan Sawaf, AppTek’s Chief Scientist, is a key organizing member of the event and will also be presenting his research paper on Arabic Dialect Handling in Hybrid Machine Translation and giving a joint presentation on A User-generated System for Critical Document Triage and Exploitation. In addition to helping sponsor and organize the conference, AppTek will also demonstrate its latest products and solutions. Among them will be the latest release of its patent-pending hybrid machine translation system. This system has been proven as the industry leading machine translation engine for challenging data in its performance in the global MT evaluation conducted by US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, as well as in other independent tests. Hassan Sawaf has over 10 years experience in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and Speech Recognition, he currently heads Research & Development for AppTek. Under his guidance as the head of R&D AppTek introduced the first hybrid machine translation system that fully integrated two complete machine translation systems (statistical and rule-based) into one system that provides the performance and benefits of both approaches. For more information on AppTek’s participation at AMTA, please visit: http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/ and www.apptek.com. ABOUT AMTA AMTA is an association dedicated to anyone interested in the translation of languages using computers in some way. This includes people with translation needs, commercial system developers, researchers, sponsors, and people studying, evaluating, and understanding the science of MT and educating the public on important scientific techniques and principles involved. AMTA’s ninth conference provides an opportunity for commercial developers, users--both professional translators and casual MT users--and research scientists to engage the community on current practices, successes, barriers and future directions. ABOUT APPTEK AppTek, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, is a developer of human language technology products with a complete suite for text and speech (voice) processing and recognition. The company also leads major research and development efforts to further the advancement in the field of developing better methods and technologies in the field of HLT. AppTek's product offerings include machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a growing list of more than 23 languages; multilingual information retrieval with query and topic search capabilities; name-finding applications; and integrated suites providing ASR and MT in media monitoring of broadcast and telephony speech as well as handheld and wearable speech-to-speech translation devices. The company has language professionals and computer scientists in offices around the world. CONTACT: Maria Gutierrez This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (703) 821-5000
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