AppTek’s Chief Technology Officer, Steve Cook participated in a panel discussing what metrics are currently used to validate performance and outlined plans for expanding on current best practices to drive the next generation of Translation Memory technology. In addition to being selected to participate for its unique position as the only major provider of proven Translation Memory solutions, AppTek has been in the development of human language technology (HLT) products, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT), for almost 20 years. In addition to its commercial off the shelf (COTS) products, AppTek also leads in major research and development efforts to develop better methods and technologies that will advance the HLT field, including the industry’s first hybrid machine translation solution. AppTek is one of the largest companies solely focused on HLT development.

ABOUT APPTEK AppTek 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. For more information please visit www.apptek.com.

For more information on the Workshop’s Agenda visit: 

 http://www.nist.gov/mel/isd/translation-memory-workshop.cfm