The MASTAR Project is a global hub for the speech
and text research, with researchers in the field of language processing, machine translation and speech
processing from Japan and abroad. It pursues research and development spanning the areas of multilingual
speech-to-speech translation, multilingual text translation, multilingual dialog system technologies, and
multilingual language resources, within a framework of collaboration between industry, academia and
government. The MASTAR Project’s goal is to collect and accumulate speech and text resources, a task that
has proved difficult for individual organizations. The MASTAR Project will also accelerate the dissemination
of research results back into society for practical application.
MASTAR Project Aims
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To establish a global hub for speech/text resources and technologies. |
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To initiate a sustainable system that stores and develops speech and text resources linking industry and society. |
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Specifically... |
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| (1) |
to carry out research and development and field tests, and to disseminate
network-based speech-to-speech translation, one part of the Social Benefit Acceleration
Projects of CSTP, Council for Science and Technology Policy. |
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to provide WEB 2.0 machine translation services for areas such as industry sectors and
manuals, and to launch a positive development cycle for the accumulation of sharable dictionaries
and corpuses for researching translation technologies. |
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to carry out research and development, field tests and dissemination of spoken dialog
interface technologies in terms of universal communication to provide information for all users. |
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to create and disseminate global language resources. |
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To set up an open R&D structure to promote research in collaboration with industry, academia
and government, and to develop the human resources to support information technologies in Japan. |
MASTAR Project
Director: Dr. Eiichiro Sumita
The MASTAR Project is a global hub for the speech and text research, with researchers in
the field of language processing, machine translation and speech processing from Japan and
abroad. It pursues research and development spanning the areas of multilingual speech-to-speech
translation, multilingual text translation, multilingual dialog system technologies, and
multilingual language resources, within a framework of collaboration between industry, academia
and government. The MASTAR Project’s goal is to collect and accumulate speech and text resources,
a task that has proved difficult for individual organizations. The MASTAR Project will also
accelerate the dissemination of research results back into society for practical application. |
