New iPhone products are released every year. Although the technology used in smartphones has matured to the point where we no longer see amazing advancements compared to the past, I am sure that there are still many people who look forward to this presentation every year. I am one of them, and I always get excited when the presentation is approaching, wondering what surprises are in store for me this year. (I am not an iPhone user, though.) Looking back, on January 9, 2007, San Fran...

The 3rd AI & Artificial Intelligence EXPO was held at Tokyo Big Sight from April 3 (Wed.) to April 5 (Fri.), 2019, where we exhibited our products. This is a specialized exhibition on AI and Artificial Intelligence, which has been attracting increasing attention in recent years for its applications. The venue this time was the Ome Exhibition Hall of Tokyo Big Sight, and we had to get on and off at a different station from the one nearest Tokyo Big Sight. I had done my research on the transfer system in advance and was well prepared! But we had to transfer to a conventional train from Shinagawa Station....

To learn Chinese, the Romanized pronunciation symbols called Pinyin and the four tones (tone of voice), which indicate the raising and lowering of sounds, are considered important, and are the first major obstacle for beginner learners. The most common example of tone is the sound "ma" (ma). If the intonation changes, the sound is the same but the meaning is different, as in " Mum (mother)", " Ma (hemp)", " Ma (horse)", or " M (scold)". Our Chinese integration software "...

The 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2019) was held at Nagoya University from Tuesday, March 12 to Friday, March 15, 2019. This year we welcomed a whopping 1,000 participants, and the venue was filled with the enthusiasm of many people! Nagoya University is only a 20-minute subway ride from Nagoya Station, and the venue was right in front of us as we walked through the ticket gates and up the stairs, so we were able to carry our carry-on cases.

Performance Verification of a Field-Specific NMT Engine I made a field-specific neural machine translation engine - I actually made a prototype of a field-specific Japanese-Chinese/Chinese-Japanese NMT engine using the Chinese-Japanese bilingual data in the IT field that I collected in "Focusing on Data Collection and Performance Verification (Part 1)". To create the model of the translation engine, we used a tool called OpenNMT. In the following sections, we will actually translate a test sentence (in the IT field) to see how the IT field NMT performs....