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| AMTA Members Elect AppTek’s Michael Veronis to their Board of Directors |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas November 11, 2008 – AMTA elected a board of directors in its 2008 conference in Hawaii. Amongst them, AppTek's Mike Veronis, to represent the language technologies developer community. 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 machine translation (MT) and educating the public on important scientific techniques and principles involved. It provides an opportunity for commercial developers, users, and research scientists to meet in a convivial atmosphere and share ideas. The election results were officially announced at this year’s bi-annual conference, where AppTek also made its first public exhibit of its new hybrid machine translation (HMT) product. The HMT product showed users how significant an integrated statistical and rule-based MT system can perform in providing information fidelity (fluency, informativeness, and adequacy), which provides a more readable and valuable translation. 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 automatic speech recognition and machine translation 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. For more information visit: www.apptek.com.
CONTACT: Mike Veronis This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (703) 394-2317  Click Here for PDF
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