| 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 | Executive Researcher, NICT |
| Vice Presidents |
Taizo Kotani Hitoshi Iida |
President, Inter Group Corporation Professor, Tokyo University of Technology |
| Directors |
Jun-ichi Tsujii Taizo Kotani Makoto Nagao Hozumi Tanaka Hitoshi Isahara Shoichi Yokoyama Hitoshi Iida Yoshiyuki Sakamoto Shun Ishizaki Key-Sun Choi Virach Sornlertlamvanich Masanori Fukiwake Masahiro Aoki Kenji Tomizawa Toshiki Murata Yoji Fukumochi |
Professor, University of Tokyo President, Inter Group Corporation President, National Diet Library Professor, Chukyo University Group Leader, Computational Linguistics Group, NICT Professor, Yamagata University Professor, Tokyo University of Technology Professor, Keio University Professor, Computer Science Division, KAIST Korterm Director, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory President, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association Senior Manager, Public Affairs, Business Planning Div., Toshiba Solutions Corporation Senior Expert, Information Services Division, Law & Intellectual Property Group, Fujitsu Ltd. Manager, Corporate Research and Development Center, Technology Marketing Department, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Manager, Information & Communication R&D Group, Information Systems Products Development Center, Development Department I, Sharp Corporation |
| Auditors |
Mihoko Katsuta Akio Taneda |
CEO, Toin Corporation Senior Manager, External Relations Division, NEC Corporation |
Membership (As of Aug. 2007)
The association's 23 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.