We participated in the [24th Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing

We would like to report on the conference, which was held over five days from 3/12 (Mon.) to 3/16 (Fri.).
Here is a report on the exhibition from a male employee with a passion that blows away the "cold" in the "three cold and four warm days!

On Monday, March 12, the 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing, of which we are a sponsor, was held in Okayama, Japan.
(http://www.anlp.jp/nlp2018/)
The event called "Sponsor Evening" was held in the evening.
This is a sponsor benefit in which each company can give a two-minute speech to approximately 200 university and graduate students, and the common and biggest challenge is how to recruit students who have programming knowledge of the language.

The research department of the largest online retailer in Japan, including both domestic and international companies that run commercials on TV,
What can Kohden really appeal to the audience?
Scale?　No, no, there is no way we can win in terms of size.
However, we decided to take a stand in accordance with the management philosophy of SHARP, which we had visited before, starting with "Do not pursue scale unnecessarily.

The time passed in a relaxed atmosphere, with each company mixing in a lighthearted flirtation that did not care whether it was funny or not.
As I fine-tuned my speech that I had thought of in advance, I kept going until I found the feeling of "Okay, let's go with that! (koso-neri = "sneak practice" or "rehearsal by oneself").

Then, it's time to go live!
Let us begin by introducing our company.
(1) We have been specializing in language processing since the 1980s.
2) The strength of Kodensha is that we develop our own translation engines.
(3) I can't tell you where, but some of our sponsors have adopted our technology.

Oh, time is almost up, 15 seconds left.
I concluded with this one word that I would not be able to say to a large company: "We have about 45 employees.
(4) We have about 45 employees, so if you want to feel how your work contributes to the world, this is the perfect company for you.

Damn, is that a painful excuse?
No, this is the truth. This is the perfect company for those who like such a four-letter idiom as "the chicken's mouth is the cow's rear end.

The number of sponsors and participants in the annual conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing has been increasing with each passing year, and I am looking forward to seeing what events await us next year.

This is the exhibit report for the 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing.
The speeches were a success, and we thank you for your hard work! I am sure that our passionate thoughts and feelings must have reached the students!
As I write this newsletter, I wish I could have listened to the speeches too, imagining what the venue was like (#^. ^#)

And the analogy to the four-letter idiom "chicken mouth, cattle rear" .... I see what you mean.
We are a small group of people working hard every day on various development and operations related to text input and voice output translation.

We introduced our bilingual corpus at the conference.
We received many valuable comments and questions from people involved in research related to language processing.
Thank you very much for stopping by our booth.

We also had a lot of chances to talk with other sponsors,
It was a very fulfilling day.
We ended the day with the words, "See you again next year! We left Okayama with the words, "See you again next year.

If you have any questions about the bilingual corpus introduced here, please feel free to contact us.