1. The Association for Natural Language Processing ANLP http://www.anlp.jp/ 15 th Oct. 2013 Hiromi Nakaiwa Chairperson of the ANLP

2. About the Association for Natural Language Processing Established on April 1, 1994, as a place for presenting language processing research findings in Japan as well as a venue for international academic exchanges. Publish of a quarterly association journal titled Journal of Natural Language Processing (The articles from the first issue until three months ago were digitized and can be obtained online from J-Stage) Host of annual meetings of the Association for Natural Language Processing Promote this academic field, develop and diffuse applied technologies, foster international communication among scholars, technicians and users, and develop human resources.

3. Officials Chairperson ： Hiromi Nakaiwa Vice-chairperson ： Eiichiro Sumita Directors ： Takenobu Tokunaga, Kentaro Inui, Makoto Yamazaki, Akiko Aizawa, Satoshi Sato, Gen'ichiro Kikui, Manabu Sassano, Satoshi Sekine, Kyoko Ohara, Daigo Taguchi, Susumu Akamine, Takehito Utsuro, Kiyoaki Shirai Auditor ： Noriyoshi Uratani, Hiroaki Saito Principal Editor in Chief ： Eiichiro Sumita Editor in Chief ： Takenobu Tokunaga

4. Membership Members 772 Student members (including PhD students) 125 Supporting members 11 organizations

5. Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing Once a year : March Presentations/Participants (Main Conference) 20th 2014 Hokkaido Univ.???/??? (20 th Anniversary!!) 19th 2013 Nagoya Univ. 246/625 18th 2012 Hiroshima City Univ. 340/684 17th 2011 Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.294/603 16th 2010 Univ. of Tokyo 277 /NA (Joint with IPSJ) 15th 2009 Tottori Univ.235/501 14th 2008 Univ. of Tokyo 293 /745 13th 2007 Ryukoku Univ. 298/588 12th 2006 Keio Univ. 295/707 11th 2005 Kagawa Univ. 316/545 10th 2004 Tokyo Institute of Tech. 195 /507 9th 2003 Yokohama National Univ. 182/443 8th 2002 Keihanna Plaza 172/411 7th 2001 Univ. of Tokyo 143/401 6th 2000 JAIST 128/257 5th 1999 Univ. of Electro-Communications 146/357 4th1998 Kyushu Univ. 177 /332 3rd1997 Kyoto Univ. 144/443 2nd 1996 Tokyo Institute of Tech. 108/344 1st 1995 Tokyo Institute of Tech. 92/315

6. Journal of Natural Language Processing - Statistics - Regular Special Issue Percentage of Papers in English 2013 (until No.4 (Sept.)) R=14/ SI=7/ Eng.=19%

7. The Association for Natural Language Processing ANLP http://www.anlp.jp/ 15 th Oct. 2013 Hiromi Nakaiwa Chairperson of the ANLP