In modern society flooded with vast information due to the proliferation
of the Internet, useful or essential information for individuals or organizations
must be selected. Also, for the selected information to be put to use
as knowledge, they need to be structured and recompiled. In the field
of language data processing, these techniques are researched and developed
as basic technologies such as data extraction, automatic classification,
summarizing, machine translation, sentence analysis and rephrasing, and
then, are being put to practical use as products.
“Words” are not only the constituent elements of information:
their more important function is as a “means of communication”.
The Language Data Processing Division is aiming at wider activities and
wishing to conduct research on words in other fields.
■Main research themes
- Extraction of information from Web pages and email and from electronic
press reports
- Information search
- Extracting and automatic sorting of the intention from responses
to open-ended questionnaires
- Survey and analysis of honorifics use trend in modern language
- Research on straightforward composition for improving and proof reading
support systems
- Preparation and maintenance of electronic dictionaries
- Dictionaries and grammar descriptions for various types of language
processing systems
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