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....