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Apptek Unveils New Metadata-Informed Neural Machine Translation System For Enterprises; Expands Mt Language And Dialect Coverage
AppTek, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Processing / Understanding (NLP/U)
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CIO Applications | Monday, May 02, 2022

Fremont, CA: AppTek, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Processing / Understanding (NLP/U), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies, has released its new neural machine translation system that incorporates metadata as inputs utilized to customize the MT output as well as empower localization professionals with more accurate user-influenced machine translations. In addition, the company extended its core machine translation platform to support hundreds of language and dialect pairs.
AppTek's new meta-aware NMT system is altering the way professional translators interact with machine-translation output. Until recently, most off-the-shelf MT systems worked in a "black box," where source language text is formulated into target language text with no or limited awareness of the surrounding context or the domain or topic of the source text and with limited control over the resulting output. Conventionally, enterprises would have to train, deploy, and maintain multiple MT systems to account for translation tasks that differed in aspects such as language, dialect, domain, topic, and more, exposing them to high deployment costs and overfitting models.
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Enterprise customers can now access a single NMT system with multi-domain, multi-genre, multi-dialect content via AppTek's new metadata-informed NMT platform, increasing the system's quality and adaptability. They gain more control over the MT output by feeding additional metadata into the system, allowing translators to simply "flip the switch" to the desired customized translation via relevant functionality in the user interface of the editing tools professionals use.
"By incorporating metadata to influence the MT output we are able to inject some 'world knowledge' into our platform," remarked Evgeny Matusov, AppTek's Lead Science Architect for Neural Machine Translation. "This improves the overall quality and adaptability of the system output and can be accomplished within a single multi-purpose system designed to reduce environmental footprint and cost."
AppTek's metadata-informed MT technology is now available for translation from English to a number of European languages and dialects, with more language pairs on the way. By utilizing existing parallel domain-specific translation corpora found within company archives, the system can be customized and adapted to the needs of enterprise customers.
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