Makoto Nagao

(Japan)
 

Title : Natural Language Processing in the Internet Age

Dr. Nagao graduated from Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University and received his Ph.D in Information Engineering from Kyoto University in 1966.
He was appointed the President of Kyoto University in 1997 and became Emeritus Professor in 2003. He took up the position of President of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in 2004 and has been acting as the Librarian of the National Diet Library since April 2007.
He also served as the President of the Japan Association of National Universities; as the founder President of International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) and the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP); and as the President of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and Japan Library Association (JLA).
Dr. Nagao’s research activities cover a variety of topics, including natural language processing, image processing, machine translation, information engineering, and intelligence information science.
His academic contributions were recognized through the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1993) and the Medal with Purple Ribbon honored by the Japanese Government (1997). He was Japan Prize Laureate in the prize category of Information and Media Technology (2005), and Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, France (2005).
 

Contents:

1. Importance and availability of linguistic resources
2. Machine translation based on linguistic resources
3. Information search technologies
4. Reliability evaluation of information
5. NLP in the digital library