Objectives:

The Expert Group focuses on speech and natural language processing technologies (SNLPT) and Asian language resources (ALR). Speech and natural language processing technologies are new technologies developed with the aim of breaking communication barriers between different language speaking people and between people and machines. Asian language resources are indispensable not only in achieving the developments of language communication technologies but also in using other applications of information extraction, Web search, text translation, speech recognition, and so on. The expert group shares information on speech and natural language processing technologies and highly recognizes the standardization for spoken language communication technologies and natural language processing.

Output/Deliverables:

We have so far engaged in parts of languages in the APT region i.e., Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, and Hindi in the U-STAR projects. To cover more languages in the APT region, the following works will be continued.
SNLPT (Speech and natural language processing technologies) part:

• To survey and discuss language-specific issues in APT region for speech and natural language processing technologies.
• To increase the number of speech and natural language processing experts in the region.
  
• To publish recommendations and documentations to international, and regional standardization activities.
  
• To construct and deliver the sample speech and natural language communication applications and language services which have been developed based on the recommendations and the evaluation results.
  

ALR (Asian Language Resources) part:

• To produce annotated multi-lingual corpora focusing on the languages used in the region.
•  To produce annotated multi-lingual technical terms, dictionaries and ontology focusing on the languages used in the region.
  

Group Email Reflector: [email protected]

Chairman:
Ms. Michiko Fukahori, National Institute of Information and Communications, Japan

Vice-Chairmen:
Dr. Dong Il Seo, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Rep. of Korea

Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand