Takadensha receives the Third Nagao Award from the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)
We are pleased to announce that we have received the prestigious "AAMT Nagao Award" for 2008. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for your support and patronage. 　Since our founding in 1979, we have been consistently engaged in research and development of machine translation based on our philosophy of "transcending language barriers. We are pleased that the recognition of the results of our activities and expectations for the future have led to this award. We believe that it is our mission to serve you with reliable technology that has earned your trust over the years. We look forward to your continued support.
2008 Award Ceremony and Commemorative Lecture	Reasons for the Award
Date: June 26, 2008 Place: Sohyo Kaikan (Ochanomizu, Tokyo) *This award is jointly presented by NEC Corporation (NEC) and our company.	Commercialization of a multilingual automatic translation service for cell phones, utilizing a multilingual translation server for text Awarded service name: "J-SERVER Pocket
Introduction of Asia Pacific Association for Machine Translation
Established on April 17, 1991 as the "Japan Association for Machine Translation" and renamed on June 17, 1992 as the "Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation" to expand its business. The purpose of the association is to promote the sound development of machine translation systems and their appropriate diffusion in society, and to contribute to the advancement of this field worldwide through the exchange of information among R&D, manufacturers and users of machine translation systems.
Introduction of AAMT Nagao Award and Dr. Makoto Nagao
The AAMT Nagao Prize was established by its first president, Dr. Makoto Nagao, as a recognition of his efforts to promote the development of machine translation systems, a field that is as prestigious as the Nobel Prize. Dr. Nagao donated a portion of his prize money to AAMT. Dr. Nagao is an authority on machine translation and a world leader in natural language processing, image processing, and pattern processing. He served as President of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) from 1997 to 2003, and is currently the Director of the National Diet Library.
Award history
The1st (2006) Awardees (1) Machine Translation Research Group, Research and Development Division, Oki Electric Industry Co. Reason for Award: Development and operation of epoch-making machine translation systems and services (2) NEC Media Information Laboratories, NEC Corporation Reason for Award: Research on practical application technology for automatic interpretation systems for mobile terminals The 2nd (2007) Awardees (1) Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International Spoken Language Communication Laboratories Reason for Award: Research and development of corpus-based translation technology based on statistics and examples, and commercialization of multilingual speech translation service using cell phones
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