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Machine Translation For More Than 23 Language Pairs is Available Free on www.apptek.com

McLean, VA (June 22, 2009) – AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT), today announced the availability of its free machine translation MT service on its website: www.apptek.com.  The service is called “Quick Translate” show cases AppTek’s innovative hybrid approach to machine translation. It is tested as the most accurate and best-of-breed MT of its kind. The service covers English and a variety of other languages (bidirectional): Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Persian\Dari, Urdu, Pashto-English, Bahasa Indonesian, Tagalog, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Dutch.

A prime motivation for a hybrid MT system is to take advantage of the strengths of both rule-based and statistical approaches, while mitigating their weaknesses. AppTek’s HMT solution provides a full integration of both MT methodologies, rather than simply adding rules to the statistical system or a minor statistical module to the rule-based engine. Using the company’s statistical MT platform and augmenting it with its rich rule-based MT engine, AppTek’s HMT solution is pushing the state-of-the-art in MT design to the next level. The three key translation quality parameters of MT systems - fluency, informativeness, and adequacy – are now supported in one comprehensive system with greater performance, quality and accuracy. 

“AppTek is the only human language technology provider to successfully develop a single system to enable fully-automatic, high quality fully hybrid machine translation” said Mike Veronis, Head of Business Development at AppTek.

For more information on the enhanced ASR engine or any of AppTek’s other leading human language technology products, please visit:

www.apptek.com.   

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

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(703) 821-5000

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