| Organization |  |
| Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation |
| Organization | |
| Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation |
History of the Association
The Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation was originally established on April 17, 1991, under the name of the Japan Association for Machine Translation. To expand its operations, the name was subsequently changed to the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation.
| President | Hitoshi Isahara | Professor, TOYOHASHI University of Technology, Information and Media Center |
| Vice Presidents | Taizo Kotani | President, Inter Group Corporation |
| Hitoshi Iida | Professor, Tokyo University of Technology | |
| Directors | Jun-ichi Tsujii | Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia |
| Taizo Kotani | President, Inter Group Corporation | |
| Makoto Nagao | President, National Diet Library | |
| Hitoshi Isahara | Professor,TOYOHASHI University of Technology | |
| Shoichi Yokoyama | Professor, Yamagata University | |
| Hitoshi Iida | Professor, Tokyo University of Technology | |
| Yoshiyuki Sakamoto | ||
| Shun Ishizaki | Professor, Keio University | |
| Key-Sun Choi | Professor, Computer Science Division, KAIST Korterm | |
| Virach Sornlertlamvanich | Director, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory | |
| Akira Kumano | Cheaf Specialist, Toshiba Splutions Corporation | |
| Masahiro Hoshino | Senior Manager, Information Services Division, Law & Intellectual Property Group, Fujitsu Ltd. | |
| Toshiki Murata | Manager, Corporate Research and Development Center, Technology Marketing Department, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. | |
| Hidekazu Hasegawa | Executive Senior Vice President, Japan Electronics ＆ Information Technology Industries Association | |
| Takehito Utsuro | Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba | |
| Auditors | Hiromi Nakaiwa | Executive Manager, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Akio Taneda | Senior Manager, External Relations Division, NEC Corporation |
Membership (As of Jul. 2011)
The association's 22 corporate members include machine translation (MT) system manufacturers, MT-related software and tool developers, MT system distributors, MT research institutes, and other organizations. The over 50 individual members include scholars, researchers, engineers, developers, distributors, document handlers, translation technicians, and translators.
Organizational Units
* Board of Directors
* Editorial Committee
* Committee for Seeking Future Direction of MT
* AAMT/Japio Patent-Translation Workshop
* Internet Working Group
The Association's Relationship with Other Organizations
*Research-and-development organizations involved in machine translation include the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and the Association for Natural Language Processing. The Japan Electronic Industry Association also conducts research on machine translation system technological developments and overseas technical trends.
*For the translation industry, the Japan Translation Association under the Labor Ministry's jurisdiction gives qualifying tests to translators for official authorization. The association also supports translator-training programs. The Japan Translation Federation Inc. trains translators, develops translation business, and encourages information exchanges.
*The Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation comprehensively promotes machine translation development, education, and publicity.
Our operations encompass research and development, production, marketing, and user services.