AppTek News & Press Releases / Northrop Grumman’s Arabic Now System incorporates AppTek Technology:

MCLEAN, VA – May 3, 2007 - Products from AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT) including Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition, have been successfully used in Northrop Grumman’s Arabic Now, an automated foreign language processing tool designed to assist analysts in locating high value electronic documents located on hard drives, portable media, and other data repositories. Arabic Now is a web-based integration of Commercial-off-the- shelf (COTS) and Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) natural language processing tools used to support analysts in identifying foreign language documents of interest.
Machine Translation (MT) via Applications Technology (AppTek) and Translation Memory tools: MT can be executed on individually identified files, through batch processing large amounts of data, and overnight using keyword sets on archived system data. User Profiles, collections of keyword sets unique to an individual, via custom code and AppTek Lexicon API provide users the ability to create, manage, delete, and upload existing keywords and/or keyword sets. Search and Retrieval via AppTek Information Retrieval (IR) and file metadata provides searching in English and Arabic. Entity Extraction (EE) of proper nouns and predefined ontology provided via AppTek Name Finder.
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 advancement in the field of developing better methods and technologies for HLT. AppTek's product offerings include machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a growing list of more than 22 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.
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