ABBYY to Present on Machine Translation Breakthrough at TAUS User Conference 2011

MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --  

WHAT: ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and professional services, will present at this week's TAUS User Conference 2011, a premier translation industry event. During the presentation, the company will present on a recent breakthrough in machine translation, ABBYY Compreno. The company will discuss the development efforts behind this beta technology, as well as provide insight into where it will go next. In addition to speaking at a high level about ABBYY Compreno, the company will present on the advantages of model-based machine translation, including easier verification, automatic training and verification, and scalability.

WHO: Presenting from ABBYY will be Eugene Pakhomov, a model-based machine translation technology expert working on the ABBYY Compreno development team for the last five years.

WHEN: The TAUS User Conference 2011 will be held October 6 – 7, 2011. Pakhomov's presentation on ABBYY's breakthrough in machine translation will take place at 9:15 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on Friday, October 7.

WHERE: The TAUS User Conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, in Santa Clara, California.

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About ABBYY

ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

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