Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Satoshi Nakamura
Ph.D., Executive Director

R&D on universal communication, e.g. multi-lingual translation, speech and non-verbal interaction, and information credibility analysis.

This center conducts research to achieve an environment in which communication is exchanged freely, at anytime and anywhere, by anyone, about anything, and in any way, aiming to develop communications technologies that will overcome barriers such as language, culture, and ability.
We are specifically developing diverse communications technologies, such as those for multilingual translation, speech and nonverbal interaction and information credibility analysis, to create a communications environment that will not be influenced by differences in language, knowledge, or ability on the ubiquitous information and communications infrastructure.

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June 23, 2008: Opening ceremony of Keihanna Research Laboratories

MASTAR Project

This project focuses on comprehensive and integrative R&D as well as sustainable accomplishment in the field of speech/text resources/processing, such as machine translation, speech dialogue and language resources. Being Japan’s most high-profile central basis where international researchers of language resources, language translation, and spoken language communication work together, the MASTAR project promotes development of research and human resources.

Group

Spoken Language Communication Group

The goal of the Spoken Language Communication Group is to achieve natural communication regardless of who or where speakers are, when, how or in which language they speak, with the support of paralinguistic information such as intonation, facial expressions, and gestures.

Language Translation Group

While the language barrier between mother tongue and foreign language is a major challenge in the real world, the automatic translation is expected to play a key role to overcome this barrier. The Language Translation Group is developing a high-quality multi-lingual automatic translation technology, focusing a new core technology called Corpus-based Translation.

Language Infrastructure Group

Language resources refer to a computer compatible dictionary or large amount of text with grammatical and semantic annotation. The Language Infrastructure Group develops, releases and disseminates the language resources and their application tools to contribute to the development of natural language processing technology including machine translation, dialog system, information retrieval and information extraction.

Knowledge Clustered Group

This group carries out research aimed at creating a living environment in which everyone can find reliable “information of wisdom” from the mixture of variable information in text, image or other form, and create and edit the content without difficulty for further utilization.

Project Promotion Office

The role of the Project Promotion Office is to review the strategic planning of Center’s R&D and to support the research groups for a better research environment.

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