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Dr. Makoto Nagao, the first president of the
Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), received the
Japan Prize last year, and he conferred part of his prize money to
AAMT with the objective of assisting our work. With these funds, we at
AAMT have established the AAMT Nagao Award.
Award Objective:
The Nagao Award is given in recognition of individuals or groups
who have contributed to research and development leading to or
facilitating commercialization of machine translation systems.
The Nagao Award differs from academic awards given for papers or
presentations; it is awarded, for example, for contributions to
the commercialization of high performance machine translation
systems, for the launch of new services utilizing machine
translation systems, and so on. At the same time, however, the
award of course does not exclude research results that also have
academic significance.
2008
- (1)Sharp Corporation
- Research, development, and application of a hybrid translation system,
featuring text translation software products and speech translation
prototypes, based on a unique, advanced translation memory engine
and a conventional translation engine.
- (2) NEC Corp. & Kodensha Co., Ltd.
- Commercialization of Multilingual Machine Translation Service for Mobile Phone
2007
- (1)Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratory
- Research and development of statistical and example-based MT and provision of the multilingual speech translation service for mobile phones
2006
- (1)Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Corporate Research and Development Center
Machine Translation Research Group
- Development and operation of "epoch-making"
MT systems and services
- (2) NEC Media and Information Research Laboratories
- Research and development toward practical use of speech
translation system for hand-held devices
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