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| Hybrid MT on Top Again in NIST Testing |
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| Friday, 30 October 2009 11:15 |
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MCLEAN, VA - October, 2009 - AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT), scored the highest overall among the commercial software vendors who participated in the NIST MT 09 evaluations · For a 3rd year in a row, AppTek scored the highest in the "Noisy Data" category, the most challenging type of content. · AppTek also scored the highest in the area of Informativeness, the measure of how useful the translation is in providing the reader the right information from the document. · AppTek's exceptional results validate the performance of the Company's patent-pending hybrid machine translation as the right approach for a truly useful machine translation system. It also shows AppTek's years of experience in the field at work in developing the first and best HMT system by a full integration of both statistical and rule-based methodologies. NIST has published the results on their website http://www.nist.gov . NIST conducts these evaluations in order to support machine translation (MT) research and help advance the state of the art in MT technology, rather than as a competition. As such, the results are not to be construed or represented as endorsements of any participant's system or commercial product, or taken as official findings on the part of NIST or the U.S. government.ABOUT APPTEK AppTek, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, develops human language technology products, including a complete suite for text and speech (voice) processing and recognition. The company also is a leader in research and development to further the advancement in development of HLT technologies. AppTek's products 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: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS141629+02-Nov-2009+BW20091102 |
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