Summary Report Survey on Research and Development of Machine Translation in Asian Countries Virach Sornlertlamvanich Information Research and Development Division National Electronics and Computer Technology Center Thailand 4-8 August 2002, 2 nd AIIS/APT, Brunei
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Summary ReportSurvey on Research and
Development of Machine Translation in Asian Countries
Virach Sornlertlamvanich
Information Research and Development Division
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Thailand
4-8 August 2002, 2nd AIIS/APT, Brunei
Survey on Research and Development of Machine Translation
in Asian Countries
Merlin Beach ResortPhuket, Thailand
May 13-14, 2002
Participation
Participants : 11 Countries
India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
: and 1 region
Hong Kong
Total participants: 50 (oversea 24, local 26)- R&D group (39)- Supporting, policy and planning group (11)
Objectives:
1) To update technology status of machine translation in Asia.
2) To exchange research and development experience in the field.
3) To establish collaboration for developing a cross language web navigation in Asia.
4) To establish activities for technology transfer from experienced countries to the inexperienced countries.
5) To develop human resources in the field.
Activities
- Keynote speech: 'AAMT Activities and General Trends of MT' by Dr. Hitoshi Iida
- 17 papers by participants* MT Research Techniques: spoken language translation,
semantic annotation, research on particular cases
* MT Research Status in the Countries* Digitalization Research and Infrastructure Status* Problems in R&D
- Roundtable Discussion
* Collaboration within Asia* Standardization for languages within this region* Financial support problem* Possibility of joining the existing working bodies