1. Hitoshi ISAHARA National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Sustainability of the work and PAN L10n network: Vision Beyond 2010

2. Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia Jan. 16, Vientiane, Laos 2 What can be useful tools for collaboration? Personal Acquaintanceship Resources Joint Projects Linguistic Resources Corpora and Lexical Resources Resource Compilation System Developments Fundamental Tools and Technologies on NLP, such as Analyzer and Generator Mutual Benefit Standardization (ISO activities)

3. Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia Jan. 16, Vientiane, Laos 3 NICT as a national institute We are developing NLP technology which is widely applicable, e.g., machine translation, resource compilation and Language Grid. We are developing NL resources which will be used for our own project and also make them open to the public.  EDR J-E-C dictionary  Japanese WordNet

4. Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia Jan. 16, Vientiane, Laos 4 NICT’s Activities Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory Human Resource Development  ADD 1-4 Mutual Information Exchange  Asian Language Resource Summit

5. Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia Jan. 16, Vientiane, Laos 5 ASEAN-Japan ICT Work Plan for 2007 – 2009 Based on the cooperative relationship between ASEAN and Japan incorporated in the several ASEAN documents[1], the following programs will be jointly implemented in 2007 – 2009 to strengthen and consolidate ASEAN-Japan cooperation in ICT sector.[1] Action 1: Facilitate high-speed connection among all national information infrastructure by 2010 Action 2: Promote international cooperation on collection, share and analysis of incident information concerning information security Action 4: Deepen regional policy and regulatory framework to deal with the opportunities and challenges in the area of Next Generation IP based Network, including the interoperability of products/services, information systems and networks in the convergence environment. Action 5: To enhance cooperation for a regional fair and transparent ICT regulatory framework to promote trade, investment, education, healthcare and employment in ASEAN Action 6: To establish a networking forum between the businesses in ASEAN and its Dialogue Partners as a platform for promoting trade and investment.

6. Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia Jan. 16, Vientiane, Laos 6 Action 3: Encourage the participation of all stakeholders (i.e. people, communities, enterprises and public administrations) in utilisation and development of ICT applications and services on the regional information infrastructure  Proposal  To conduct an ASEAN-Japan Workshop on ICT applications  Japan to support ASEAN capacity in research and development concerning a Multilanguage Translation Technology

7. Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia Jan. 16, Vientiane, Laos 7 Thank you very much !