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SDL Government (SDLGov) is excited to be a part of this Conference! We bring innovative translation technology solutions, that can be integrated into diverse, critical, and leading edge applications and tools.

We offer the unique ability to support our customers and partners because our staff and personnel come from the domains and environments we support. Our machine translation (MT) technology solution is easily adaptable for specific domains and provides an open architecture that can rapidly deliver recent materials tailored to nearly any requirement. Our translation technology products support customers and partners in single user environments, multi-dispersed

engagements, and enterprise activities. We bring this understanding to bear on requirements because we provide significant language translation technology support across multiple platforms and different government agencies.

Our translation technology coverage includes more than 93% of the world’s national languages, allowing us to easily accommodate virtually any language requirement for a wide range of critical missions and programs.

SDL Government, as a leading Translation Software and Services company, has a long proven history of providing cutting edge translation technology to the US Government. Our technology is and can be integrated with other enabling technologies: including analytical platforms, Automated Speech Recognition / Speech to Text (ASR), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and others to provide a comprehensive platform that can treat the full spectrum of data from ingestion through transcription and/or translation through to analysis and dissemination. Our Government Language Platform (GLP) consists of our Machine Translation software: Enterprise Translation Software-Government (ETS-G), our ubiquitous translator productivity tool suite: Trados Studio-Government 2015 (TS-G), and our workflow and translation management system (TMS): WorldServer-Government (WS-G). Our industry leading machine translation software currently forms the backbone of multiple analytical platforms throughout the DoD, IC and Federal LE communities.

We hope you will come visit us at our booth and see our industry leading solutions and learn more about how they can meet your translation needs.

Sincerely,

S. Danny Rajan CEO, SDL Government

Thank You!

S. Danny Rajan CEO, SDL Government

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S DL Government (SDLGov) offers a suite of products that allow users to train, retain, save, and reuse translations to gain efficiencies and offer more effective data transfer for actionable

decisions. Our integrated tools combine translation management, translator productivity, machine language learning, and translation project workflow into an enterprise translation environment that effectively and efficiently supports and satisfies multiple mission requirements.

With nearly 80% of communications across the Internet in languages other than English, it is imperative that we not only collect the data, but that we have the ability to rapidly understand and interpret that data. “Big Data” is not just big, it's fast, and it's messy and unstructured in a socially organic way. SDL Government’s translation technologies offer the most comprehensive and integrated approach to delivering turnkey solutions for mitigating translation gaps.

We bring more than 25 years of translation technology expertise to our Government customers; our products are used by 9 of the top 10 global companies; and more than 80% of worldwide high-tech/software companies rely on our products for their translation needs.

SDLGov is an industry leader in the advancement of machine translation in the areas of “Adaptive and Neural Machine Translation”, social media (i.e. informal) translation, and language identification. Our innovative technology is about creating adaptable translation

engines, and our next MT release has incorporated this capability. At SDLGov, our real-time Language Learning machine translation engine continues to evolve after it has been trained.

The rapid proliferation of Social Media throughout the world has provided new avenues for populations to communicate and organize.

SDLGov is a pioneer in the translation of informal and social media languages. We developed the first-ever Arabizi (informal language that creates Arabic words on Western keyboards) translation engine to make sense of the Arab Spring. We offer an integrated translation technology solution that provides a way to automate and scale many of the complex tasks needed for processing informal language sources, applying multiple methodologies, and performing translations across an enterprise.

Our translation tools include Trados Studio 2017 – the newest version of the global leading software application in translator desktop productivity; and WorldServer 11 – a powerful translation management and workflow application sized for any US government or contractor enterprise environment.

“ We bring more than 25 years of translation technology expertise. ”

About SDL Government

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SDLGov can implement centralized translation memories and terminology databases so that existing content can be used and shared across an organization in a deliberate and managed way. Our solutions accept content from a wide variety of sources - from internet websites, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds, to audio and imagery files processed via Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), to scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

By automating tasks and reusing already translated text, SDL Government can dramatically reduce the time to translate, reduce inaccuracies, improve the quality and

consistency of translations, and reduce the overall cost of translating new, emerging content at a broader community level. Our solutions help analysts and translators to become more efficient and productive in finding the most relevant bits of information in any language. Our integrated solutions provide a mechanism to move and analyze Big Data quickly to create the actionable intelligence needed by mission operators.*

Contact Us 703.665.6731

info@sdlgov.com www.sdlgov.com

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T he rapid proliferation of Social Media, throughout the world, has provided new avenues for populations to communicate and organize. Informal languages and

communication has been around since the dawning of man’s ability to speak, however, with this globalization and interconnectivity, informal languages have spread and become a standard for communications; not simply how friends talk with one another. Informal languages take many forms; they can be abbreviations due to character limitations on Twitter, or having to Romanize non Latin words with cell phone keyboards. These languages are constantly evolving and growing.

Our mission at SDLGov is to enable analysts and operators to understand what is being said, who is saying it, and make timely and accurate decisions based on what they find. SDLGov is a pioneer in the translation of informal and social media languages. This advanced translation capability enables analysts to more thoroughly explore and exploit the internet, from the dark web to the deep web, by providing clarity to what is being said and by whom.

Experience in Multi-INT Fusion The vast majority of data collected throughout the IC and DOD is in a foreign language. This data can include complex metadata; GEO Tags, names of people and places, to terabytes of SIGINT data from voice and other communications. The volume of data collected is not only massive but also contains details that are critical to have accurately and quickly interpreted.

Reliable Translation The SDL Government’s tool suite allows for a standardized translation of names, places, terms, and other miscellaneous data; ensuring the reliable end results every time.

It enables crypto-linguists to process data, more quickly, more efficiently, and more accurately through the integration of advanced speech- recognition technology and machine translation allowing for faster and more accurate targeting and exploitation.

Analysts focused on Big Data can quickly and accurately translate informal languages and translate meta-data from a myriad of sources in numerous languages to quickly determine what is relevant and what is not.

SDL Governments’ fusion of multiple, interacting technologies provides an effective solution that integrates within existing infrastructures and accelerates the intelligence collection and analysis processes.

Intelligence Capabilities

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Technical Targeting The F3EAD (Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, Disseminate) process has greatly evolved over the last decade of operational employment. The volume of information available to targeting professionals is staggering and perpetually growing in nature. The opportunity to overwhelm operators with unfiltered data is clear and evident.

With most source data in foreign languages and the reality of a dramatic shortage of cleared professionals with the required language skills, the challenge to delivering accurate, targeted, and useful data to operators becomes limited.

The use of SDL Governments machine translation technology enables operators on the ground as well as Targeting analysts to get an instantaneous “gist” of the information gathered. This enables the capability to triage data of interest from background noise.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Conventional Weapons domains are inherently technical in nature. Conventional machine translation engines are not well equipped to deal with highly technical foreign language data.

The SDL Government suite of products are fully customizable and trainable that can be directly tailored to any highly specific technical data set. Our Enterprise Translation Server-G custom language pairs, developed

upon request or generated with our latest offering of Language Learning, translate massive amounts of foreign language source data.

Complex data sets and technical manuals require special tools to properly process, analyze, and translate. Trados Studio-G (TS-G) is the number one Computer Assisted Translator productivity tool in the world with more than 300, 000 licenses in use worldwide. TS-G enables linguists to build and share a translation memory of all their translated data, greatly reducing overall translation time and cost, while greatly increasing accuracy.

With SDL Governments real-time Language Learning, our translation engines continue to evolve after they have been trained. SDL Government Trados Studio-G also enables linguists to create and share term-bases with all of the relevant terminology for their field. This ensures that technical terms are translated right the first time, every time. Our innovative technology creates adaptable translation engines that receive and process user feedback and learns from it in real time. With Language Learning, the user provided feedback or correction goes back to the engine, is processed in real time, and influences subsequent translations.*

“ The Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Conventional Weapons domains are inherently technical in nature. ”

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A gencies are dealing with dozens of languages and cultural nuances compounding multi-lingual data challenges. Professional translators, are in short supply and can only

translate possibly two to three thousand words per day, per Common Sense Advisory. In a data-driven world, government organizations potentially need to translate millions of words per day from a variety of sources.

SDL Government’s Enterprise Translation Server-G (ETS-G) is built on leading statistical machine translation technology and its advanced research and development activities.

Our ETS-G is implemented in multi-level secure networks, and is accessed via a user-interface for quick translation, multi-lingual, social media browsing, or via our REST API for integration with other applications.

SDL Government’s MT Benefits Secure On-Premise Translation

SDLGov’s Statistical Machine Translation solution installed on-site enables large volumes of information to be translated securely at high speed and high accuracy while being cost-effective.

Maximized Translation Resources Government Agencies improve translation resources effectiveness by translating all information automatically and escalating only necessary work to human translators.

Domain Customization SDLGov MT supports user training for terminology that is specific to certain missions or applications to deliver improved translation accuracy.

Industry Leader in MT Innovation and Advancement More than 25 years of translation technology expertise.

Language Learning SDL Government’s ETS-G technology offers trainable engines that can be directly tailored for the unique domain of data that the government needs to handle. These engines can be developed upon request, or with our latest offering of adaptive Language Learning, or be customized by the user in real time.

We are an industry leader in the advancement of MT in the areas of “Adaptive and Neural Machine Translation”, social media (i.e. informal) translation, and language identification.

“ More than 80% of worldwide high-tech / software companies rely on our products for their translation needs. ”

Enterprise Translation Server-G

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Our innovative technology is about creating adaptable translation engines, and our next MT release has incorporated this capability.

Translation Workflows SDL Government provides Machine Language Translation support for hundreds of language pairs. Our MT engines can be further trained on an organization’s specific vocabulary and terminology to produce a customized solution. As part of the overall translation infrastructure, MT engines can also be coupled with human post-editing to further improve translation quality and reduce time-to-decision for translated content.

SDLGov’s MT allows for prioritization and maximal use of translation resources. By providing the first round of translation, our MT empowers human translators to work only on more important translations – those that require human interpretation and analysis.

By using existing translated content, organizations can also train the SDLGov MT statistical machine translation technology to produce more fluent, meaningful translations in important subject areas and domains.

We bring years of translation technology expertise to our Government customers; our products are used by 9 of the top 10 global companies; and more than 80% of worldwide high-tech / software companies rely on our products for their translation needs. As an example, in a completely automated environment, our machine translation technology is translating almost 60 Billion words annually for a major Internet travel site – across 13 different languages, 24-hours per day/365 days per year.*

Our machine translation capabilities cover more than 95% of the World’s National Languages.

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Trados Studio-G

A ccelerate productivity as you empower your operations to manage translations to the highest standards. SDL Government Trados Studio-G offers a complete environment for

language professionals to edit or review translations, manage translation projects, organize corporate terminology and connect to machine translation.

Used by more than 300,000 translators worldwide, when your Agency or organization chooses Trados Studio-G, you are joining the largest translation user community in the world.

Everything You Need in One Place Innovative Features

That increase translators’ productivity such as predictive typing and quality checking; advanced tools for cooperating more easily with reviewers; automated wizards and reports for efficient project management.

Easy to Learn, Simple to Use With a customizable workspace to suit every need.

Opens All Common File Types Anything from Microsoft Word to sophisticated formats like Adobe InDesign – so you can work with any project.

Powerful Tools To fully leverage previous translation projects.

Part of an Extensive Solution Which includes sharing technology and machine translation.

Details that Make a Difference AutoSuggest for Asian Languages Now with Studio 2017 AutoSuggest has been enhanced to support Chinese, Korean and Japanese. You can now create AutoSuggest dictionaries with these languages and enjoy better-than-ever productivity gains by typing less and translating more.

Easier Document Navigation Navigate through documents even more easily with custom display filters in Studio 2017. Users can apply multiple filters and save custom filters for future use so to easily focus on priorities.

Merge Segments Over Hard Returns Studio 2017 allows you to merge segments even over hard returns so you can ensure the high quality of your translation units and optimize your translation process.

Better File Type Support Studio 2017 brings an even further enhanced Microsoft Word filter for better handling of Word files. In addition, we’ve included support for XLIFF 2.0 as well as 1.2, so you can work on files that have been created using the latest version of the XLIFF standard. Users can preview a custom file filter directly from the File Types window – a major time saver when preparing and testing custom or in-built file types.

“ Used by more than 300,000 translators worldwide. ”

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Instantly Create New Translation Memory If your organization has been working without using a translation memory before, you can create a new one by bringing previously translated documents into Trados Studio-G. The powerful alignment technology automatically brings both original and translated content together. Creating a new translation memory is simple. Upload the original and corresponding file and Studio will automatically align them to create a Translation Memory for your new project.

Smarter Translation Memory Translation Memories (TMs) are an organizations greatest assets and getting the maximum possible from them matters. Studio 2017’s transformative new upLIFT Fragment Recall technology will automatically give you high-quality fragment matches so that you can translate new segments faster, even if you don’t have a full TM match. Enjoy simpler TM leverage, save time and effort and be confident that you’re getting high-quality or in-built matches in both fuzzy and no match scenarios.

Repair “fuzzy” Matches With increasingly short deadlines, being able to do as much as possible in as little time is important. Reduce translation time and cost with upLIFT Fuzzy Repair which cleverly uses your trusted resources to repair fuzzy matches so you save even more time when editing and get the best possible fuzzy match.

Refined User Experience We continue to make Studio easier to use and with Studio 2017 you can quickly get started by dragging and dropping files to create a new project. Project setup is further enhanced with our ‘Recently used languages’ feature, or the possibility of reversing the language direction, saving time when setting language pairs. Users can get started with a simple right click in Windows Explorer and enjoy working with Studio on high DPI 4K screens, providing an all-round improved user experience.*

SDL Government’s Professional Training and Certification Program The SDL Government’s Professional Training and Certification Program is the industry’s premier technology based program which provides a recognized standard of excellence in SDL Government’s software knowledge. It is a comprehensive professional education program offered to translators and project managers and is designed to develop and validate expertise in the use of SDL Government’s translation technology tools. Contact us at training@sdlgov.com Learn more at www.sdlgov.com/trados-certification

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WorldServer-G

U S Government Agencies want to manage, share and collaborate on all source content from multiple channels, and translate, quickly and reliably across multiple mission critical areas.

WorldServer-G (WS-G) is the leading translation management system in the industry. More than one hundred of the top global companies rely on WS-G to optimize their translation programs.

WS-G simplifies and accelerates the translation process for any content – from social media to websites to

documents. It is designed to centrally manage, automate and control numerous translation projects across multiple language service providers to deliver quality translations rapidly and cost effectively.

By automating many costly and time-consuming activities, WS-G eliminates delays in translated content availability, improves translation quality, and reduces costs. WS-G is built for managers and their teams to centrally manage, automate and control translation projects to deliver quality translations on time and within budget.

Key Benefits Quality Translations for End Users

SDL Government WorldServer-G ensures every form of content has the highest quality translation, and all translations are sent through predefined workflows and review cycles.

Greatly Reduced Cost SDL Government WorldServer-G automatically identifies what content has changed and what has previously approved translations. The cost of translations can be reduced by as much as 40% and the overall cost of the translation program can be reduced by as much as 80%.

Decreased Administrative Burden Processes that formerly required dozens of tasks are reduced to a few human steps with SDL Government WorldServer-G managing the routing, storage and communications between program participants.

Ability to Scale Best practices and workflows are enforced by SDL Government WorldServer-G’s scalable workflow function. The proven process can be extended to a new language or content type with little incremental effort.

“ Simplify, automate and accelerate the translation of any content from multiple languages through effective translation management.. ”

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Capabilities

Translation Memory WS-G features Translation Memory (TM), a database of all previously translated content. Any new request for document translation is passed through the TM database to segment content and identify that which already has approved versions in the target language. For content where there is no exact translation, TM will offer similar content to make the translator’s job faster and easier. This will ensure consistency of translations across organizations, agencies and document versions, while reducing the volume and costs of translation services.

Terminology Management Every organization has its own unique vocabulary, terminology, and usage standards. Slang is constantly evolving and the use of code words that have dual meanings can make it extremely difficult for standard translation systems to convey the true meaning of what is being said. WS-G enables the creation or importation of custom dictionaries that allow the user to customize and standardize how a given word is translated from a source to target text. Custom terminology databases, or “termbases”, of user-defined terminology consisting of words and or phrases can be created, saved and shared between users to ensure that key terms are translated how you want them to be translated, every time, consistently and accurately throughout an entire enterprise.

Workflow customization Core to WorldServer-G is a workflow-based process automation engine that drives all translation project activities. You can easily configure the workflow so that, for example the process for translating social media material is different from that for translating very technical documentation. Personnel can be designated as the approved translators or reviewers to ensure subject matter experts control the final quality of content. In addition, comments, questions and notifications of project related issues can be attached to any content to improve the quality as it moves through the translation process.*

Experience first hand what SDL Government products can do for your business. Visit our booth for details and demonstrations of these Innovative Technology capabilities.

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T he term innovation is bandied about frequently. Every day we are bombarded with “innovative new approaches” and “technological innovations to …” At SDL Government, we believe that true innovation

is the “introduction of something new or a new idea, method or product” – and provides a real benefit to our customers.

We bring 25 years of translation technology expertise – exceeding initial handcrafted translation knowledge, through statistical learning, and bridging into contextually adaptive machine translation offerings. We are leading the way for a transformational wave of machine translation capabilities with our Neural Network based language models and Adaptive Learning Machine Translation engines.

SDL Government, however, does not stop there. We understand the critical importance of technology integration and cross-functional performance, and we focus on providing flawless support to the execution of our customer’s missions.

SDL Government has partnered with leading global technology providers such as IBM, Nuance Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University to integrate machine translation technology into Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) tools, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solutions, and multiple content analytics tools and front-end ingestion engines. These integrations enable analysts and operators to understand what is being said, who is saying it, and make timely and accurate decisions based on what they find.

Our solutions help analysts and translators to become more efficient and productive in finding the most relevant bits of information in any language. Our integrated solutions provide a mechanism to analyze Big Data quickly to create the actionable intelligence needed by mission operators.

The following pages highlight some of the SDL Government Innovations that we have developed over the past 9 months.

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Experience first hand what SDL Government products can do for your business. Visit our booth for details and demonstrations of these Innovative Technology capabilities.

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I n the world of deployed military, accurate communications for ground troops can mean the difference between life and death. If a squad of soldiers on the ground is searching for an insurgent,

they need to be able to talk with the local populace and make informed decisions on the fly. Trusted wartime translators can be costly to train and there are simply not enough to go around. What can the squad do if none speak the indigenous language and a human translator is not available? They must turn to machine translation (MT); the MT’s job can be more complicated in regions where numerous dialects exist in a small area.

SDL Government’s innovations in the field of informal dialect MT technology coupled with our integration efforts with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology will provide unprecedented access to high quality deployable translation systems. Our current solution can run on a tablet or ruggedized laptop allowing a deployed ground troop to carry it into the battlefield with minimal burden.

The solution contains full statistical model language pairs for high quality translations that do not limit the user to just a limited set of phrases or interactions.

SDL Government understands the mission needs of deployed military personnel. We understand that size, weight, and power are crucial to success, but also that those requirements need to be tempered with the realization that if the technology does not perform its job correctly, it doesn’t matter how small the device is. It is SDL Government’s mission to advance MT technology to allow unprecedented levels of communication for deployed troops by combining Neural Network MT (NNMT), ASR, and OCR technology with the latest advancements in mobile hardware. Commercial research and development in NNMT at SDL Government is paving the way to make devices that will help our troops in make the mission critical decisions they need to achieve mission success.

In the field, people do not speak perfect English, Arabic, Russian, Pashto, or any other formal language. They speak in southern accents, regional dialects, and utilize slang. SDL Government’s partnerships with the US Government coupled with our commercial developments allow us to understand over 100 language combinations including 11 Arabic dialects as well as informal Russian, Turkish, French and Farsi to name a few. With our portfolio continuously growing, we help the warfighter deploy the correct language translation technology to support their missions overseas. *

“ Our current solution can run on a tablet or ruggedized laptop allowing a deployed ground troop to carry it into the battlefield. ”

More Than Just Machine Translation Deployed Translation Capabilities

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O ptical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has been around for decades. At its most basic definition, OCR technology digitally renders text from images.

Providers of OCR technology extract text directly from pictures, scanned documents or other formats by means of a series of algorithms and models. OCR technology is widely used in virtually every segment of the population – in both public and private sectors. Healthcare, Finance, Military and Government are all heavy users of OCR technology.

Providers of OCR applications are many and varied with language and domain specialization being key differentiators in today’s market place. The ability to design, build and deploy a customizable, configurable and integrated platform combining OCR with machine translation (MT) that is OCR provider-agnostic, is highly sought after by government and corporations alike. By being provider-agnostic, SDLGov can deliver an integrated platform that will automatically select the right OCR technology based on the language requirements and specific use case or from a set of best-of-breed offerings.

SDL Government (SDLGov) has integrated several OCR applications into its MT platform to deliver a seamless user experience for US Government customers. Built on SDLGov’s market leading MT technology, we have created a robust platform that can integrate with a variety of OCR engines/models to provide users with quality transcriptions and translations in a fraction of the time it would take a human transcriber/translator unaided by technology.

There are several use cases that are enhanced, and therefore made more productive, by integrating OCR with MT, such as:

Enabling Law Enforcement with Forensic analysis of captured documents, cross-border operations, legal proceedings, criminal investigations and field operations support.

Enabling Intelligence analysts more effectively access and analyze multilingual OSINT, and support operational HUMINT.

Using translation technology to support Base/Border security, force protection, operational kinetic support, sensitive site exploitation (SSE), forensic analysis.

There is a growth of foreign language content that is drowning our analysts and operators. Finding the critical “needle in the haystack” is made infinitely more complex when the volume, velocity, and variety of this foreign language content keeps increasing. SDLGov can successfully enable US Government agencies to optimally ingest, process, analyze, and disseminate crucial foreign language content and the resulting intelligence, with the right technology. *

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S DL Government (SDLGov) is enabling our customers to effectively manage and understand an ever-expanding ocean of multilingual content. Information such as news

stories, blogs, and webpages are now being effectively translated using SDLGov machine translation (MT) solutions. But the real growth of online content is now in multimedia - audio, video, podcasts, images, and animation. To address the challenges managing and translating this multilingual content, we have developed innovative solutions that enable users to gist and understand significant quantities of multilingual data types.

By integrating Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technologies with our industry-leading translation offerings, we have created a unified platform that will ingest broadcast media, social media, video, and audio, and other content types – and output translated and understandable content.

We have modelled our MT engines to handle content from social media sources such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and others. These sources are often the first place that information about an emerging crisis or event is found. Statistics show that only 28% of the more than 3 Billion Internet users speak English; 72% of Internet traffic comes from non-English speaking countries; and only 34% of Social Media messages are in English. SDLGov translation technology solutions give analysts

real time access to information about real time events – in the venues where information moves at lightning speed.

The sheer volume of content is staggering. In 2016, every minute of every day saw:

3.5 Million Text Messages Sent

Twitter Users Send 350,000 Tweets

6.9 Million Users Watch Snapchat Videos

YouTube Sharing 400 Hours of New Video

2.4 Million Instagram Users Responding to Posts

With our MT platform, we enable language agnostic understanding of video, audio, imagery and other content – to derive actionable intelligence. Through our APIs we integrate quickly and effectively with analytics tools to create solutions that address very specific problems that then provide an unparalleled capability to extract meaningful and useful intelligence from a wide variety of multimedia sources in multiple languages. *

More Than Just Machine Translation Multilingual Multimedia Translation

“ 72% of Internet traffic comes from non-English speaking countries. ”

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T he proliferation of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms across the Services has brought with it a new challenge of how to quickly and effectively we can Process,

Exploit, and Disseminate (PED) multilingual data, in a form that provides the warfighter or decision maker the greatest clarity and understanding. ISR platforms, whether ground-based, airborne, at sea, or space-based, collect data in a myriad of formats including text, audio, signals, imagery, and video. These diverse data streams that come in many languages and dialects present a challenge to analysts and operators who need to quickly understand this content so they can identify and respond to threats. With the volume of collection ever increasing, it is imperative that innovative solutions be implemented to augment existing operational capabilities. On today’s battlefield, the warfighter faces the complex issue of an increasing Volume, Velocity, and Variety of foreign language sources.

At SDL Government, we have proven experience in delivering language technology to the warfighter by enabling their understanding of Big Data in any language. We have worked to develop a robust platform that integrates cutting edge Machine Translation (MT), Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities to maximize the ability of the operator to process video, audio, and imagery that contains foreign language, render it understandable, and act on it in a timely manner. We

have deployed this technology on a variety of ISR platforms, PED platforms, and operational ‘kits’ in use across the Services, COCOMs as well as the Intelligence community and Federal Law Enforcement community.

The importance of language technology becomes clear when examining the human capacity to translate foreign language data. The average human translator can translate approximately 2500-3000 words per day, which is the equivalent of about 5-6 pages. SDLGov’s Machine Translation engine can translate an average of 4,000 words per minute but is scalable to almost unlimited potential. This processing, can be done onboard the sensor platform or at the PED site allowing the warfighter to focus on the most relevant data streams while gisting out all the others.

The benefits of integrating MT and Natural Language Processing tools into ISR platforms includes: increased force protection for ground personnel through enhanced situational awareness capabilities, faster response times for airborne targeting systems that are processing foreign language audio and text data, and the maximization of human capacity to process data while using integrated analytical platforms. As the volume and velocity of data that we capture grows, SDL Government is ready to meet mission requirements with cutting edge Machine Translation, that is integrated with other tools such as ASR and OCR, enabling our customer’s mission success. *

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W ith more than 70% of communications across the Internet in languages other than English, it is imperative that we not only be able to collect this content,

but that we have the ability to rapidly understand this content as well. "Big Data" is not just big; it's fast, it's messy, it’s unstructured in a socially organic way – and it comes in a variety of languages and dialects. SDL Government’s translation technologies offer the most comprehensive and integrated approach to delivering turnkey solutions for enabling the understanding of Big Language Data.

Social media is and extremely rich and fluid source of intelligence. Social media analytics has been used for situational awareness during political events, understanding population sentiment during social uprisings, used to dissect the causes of regional conflicts, and enable the surveillance of individuals and organizations seeking to cause harm and damage. To gain insights into potential threats, support forensic analysis after a terrorist attack, or understand the social network following ‘bad actors’ - it is paramount that this

information is not only analyzed – but also translated effectively and in a timely manner so it is understood.

With approximately 72% of online traffic coming from non-English speaking countries. Using SDL Government’s machine translation (MT) technology, coupled with data analytics and sentiment analysis (potentially in the native language) – users can gain insight into real world events in near real time – and understand what is being communicated.

SDL Government (SDLGov) offers a scalable Machine Translation Enterprise (MTE) platform which can be integrated with 3rd party tools to perform social media data analysis, such as entity extraction. Social media will continue to increase in terms of content types, languages used, dialects used, and numbers of individuals communicating on a global level. SDLGov’s MT platform provides the means of understanding the Big Language data – and enable users to extract meaningful and actionable information. *

More Than Just Machine Translation Social Media Analytics

“ Social media is and extremely rich and fluid source of intelligence. ”

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T he quality of automated speech recognition (ASR) technology has increased exponentially over the past two decades. From the humble beginnings of Nuance’s Dragon Naturally

Speaking in 1997 to sophisticated and complex acoustical models developed by IBM for the Watson Group, to massive crowd-sourced efforts at Google Translate, to Amazon’s Alexa project, the state of the art is moving rapidly. Faster computing processors, coupled with exploding levels of parallelization, now allows for the development of new acoustical language models that are driving a higher level of speech integration into our personal lives and our corporate cultures.

SDL Government (SDLGov) is at the commercial forefront in integrating ASR with high quality machine translation (MT) technology for a seamless user experience in the US Government space. Currently built on SDLGov’s robust MT platform, we have created a ubiquitous platform that can integrate with a variety of ASR models via ReST APIs to provide users with quality transcriptions and translations in a fraction of the time it would take a transcriber/translator to manually transcribe a foreign language audio file and translate that transcription into English.

There are many relevant use cases and mission sets that

are enhanced in productivity and effectiveness with our integrated platform:

Federal and State Law Enforcement TITLE III intercepts/monitoring, custodial interviews, interrogations, forensic analysis, cross-border operations, monitored communications, legal proceedings, investigations and operations.

Intelligence Community Batch translation and Analysis of large volumes of audio files, ingestion of streaming content, web monitoring, OSINT, SIGINT, operational HUMINT support, surveillance/counter-surveillance.

US Military LLVI, ISR missions over foreign areas, border security, force protection, operational kinetic support.

There is a growing problem of foreign language data that is drowning our analysts and operators. Finding that critical “needle in the haystack” is made infinitely more complex when volume, velocity and variety of the foreign language data keeps increasing. Technology must be introduced effectively to gist, prioritize, analyze and collaborate within this vast amount of content. SDLGov’s mission is to enable our US Government community to more effectively digest, process, analyze and understand crucial foreign language data. *

Integrated Automated Speech Recognition

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