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Sustainability of the work and PAN L10n network
Vision Beyond 2010

• Hitoshi ISAHARA
• National Institute of Information and
  Communications Technology (NICT)

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What can be useful tools for collaboration?
Linguistic Resources Corpora and Lexical Resources
Resource Compilation System Developments
Fundamental Tools and Technologies on NLP, such
as Analyzer and Generator
Standardization (ISO activities)
Mutual Benefit
Personal Acquaintanceship
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NICT as a national institute

• We are developing NLP technology which is widely
  applicable, e.g., machine translation, resource
  compilation and Language Grid.
• We are developing NL resources which will be used
  for our own project and also make them open to
  the public.
• EDR J-E-C dictionary
• Japanese WordNet

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NICTs Activities

• Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory
• Human Resource Development
• ADD 1-4
• Mutual Information Exchange
• Asian Language Resource Summit

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ASEAN-Japan ICT Work Plan for 2007 2009

• Based on the cooperative relationship between
  ASEAN and Japan incorporated in the several ASEAN
  documents1, the following programs will be
  jointly implemented in 2007 2009 to strengthen
  and consolidate ASEAN-Japan cooperation in ICT
  sector.
• Action 1 Facilitate high-speed connection among
  all national information infrastructure by 2010
• Action 2 Promote international cooperation on
  collection, share and analysis of incident
  information concerning information security
• Action 4 Deepen regional policy and regulatory
  framework to deal with the opportunities and
  challenges in the area of Next Generation IP
  based Network, including the interoperability of
  products/services, information systems and
  networks in the convergence environment.
• Action 5 To enhance cooperation for a regional
  fair and transparent ICT regulatory framework to
  promote trade, investment, education, healthcare
  and employment in ASEAN
• Action 6 To establish a networking forum between
  the businesses in ASEAN and its Dialogue Partners
  as a platform for promoting trade and investment.

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• Action 3 Encourage the participation of all
  stakeholders (i.e. people, communities,
  enterprises and public administrations) in
  utilisation and development of ICT applications
  and services on the regional information
  infrastructure
• Proposal
• To conduct an ASEAN-Japan Workshop on ICT
  applications
• Japan to support ASEAN capacity in research and
  development concerning a Multilanguage
  Translation Technology

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Thank you very much !