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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.
2011
- (1)AAMT Working Group 3 (Sharing/Standardization)
- Working group 3 has developed and released an
easy-to-use, open dictionary format UTX. UTX provides effective means for
improving machine translation accuracy as well as the quality of computer
assisted translation and interoperability of user-created dictionaries. UTX
is valuable because it has the potential to grow into an international
standard in addition to its use in various specialized domains such as ICT
localization, open source efforts, education, government, medical, legal,
and many other areas.
2010
- (1)Minna no Hon'yaku Development and Management Team
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2009
- (1)Toshiba Solutions Corporation & Toshiba Corporation
- Realization of the technology for translation precision improvement, alleviating user's burden due to user's knowledge acquisition
- (2) AAMT Internet Working Group
- For outstanding publicity activities for the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation
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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