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Universal Communication Research Institute Universal Communication Research Institute Advanced Speech Translation Research and （ ）, Monorail National Institute of Information and Communications Technology NICT Development Promotion Center Osaka Intl. National Research and Development Agency Airport Senri Chuo 3-5, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, , 619-0289 JR Tokaido and Kyoto TEL : 0774-98-6300 FAX : 0774-98-6955 Sanyo Lines Shin-Osaka JR Kyoto Line Kintetsu Line JR

Access by Train Amagasaki JR Line Osaka http://ucri.nict.go.jp/

( ) Line Subway Midosuji At Hosono Stn. H20 on the JR Gakken-Toshi Line, or e J JR Gakken-Toshi Shin-Hosono in R Kyobashi L Umeda O Line Hosono Shin-Hosono Stn.(B21) on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line, p sa o k o a L JR Tozai Line Kizu ■ Take Nara-Kotsu Bus #36 for "Hikaridai Loop Line", #46 for "Hikaridai L a o Gakken k o a p Nara Sanchome", or #56 bound for "Gakken Nara Tomigaoka Stn." and get off at s Bus L

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"Hikaridai Sanchome" stop. The bus ride will take about 15 minutes, and the e R building is across the road from the bus stop. Alternatively, get off the #58 or Cosmo J square Bentencho Honmachi Morinomiya Bus #59 bus at “Keihanna Plaza” and walk for six minutes. Kintetsu Nara Line Chuo Subway Line () Ikoma Yamato Nara Namba Saidaiji ( ) Tsuruhashi At Gakken Nara Tomigaoka Stn. C30 on the Kintetsu Keihanna Line, Kansai Intl. Tennoji ■ Take Nara-Kotsu Bus #56 bound for "Hosono Stn." and get off at "Hikaridai Airport Shin- Yonchome" (bus stops in front of the building), or take #59 bound for "Hosono Nankai Railway Imamiya JR Yamatoji Line Stn." and get off at "Keihanna Plaza" and walk for six minutes. Either bus ride will take about 15 minutes. Nakamozu From Data and Information JR Access by Car To Knowledge and Wisdom

From Osaka Hanshin Expressway #13, Higashi-Osaka Route → Daini Hanna Road(E92) Highway Keihanna Hosono Shin- → → → Nakamachi Ramp via Gakuenmae via Tomigaoka JR Gakken-Toshi Line Hosono Yamate Kansen Line Kyoto Kintetsu From Kyoto Hanshin Expressway #8,Kyoto Route → Daini Keihan Road(E89) →

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Shin-Meishin Expressway(E1A) Keinawa Highway(E24) Seika-Gakken I.C. APiTA TOWN Panasonic Keihanna Keihanna → Keihanna Seika-Odori Road Kyocera Keihanna Nidec From Nara Narayama-Odori Road → Nara-Seika Line Plaza Commemorative Park Seika Gakken I.C. Access by Highway Bus Yawata-Kizu Line Seika-Odori Line Suntory ATR of the National Diet Library Kansai-kan There are buses traveling directly to Keihanna Police KICK Zakuro-Higashibata Line Zakuro-Higashibata Plaza from Kansai International Airport and Hachijo Exit (trial basis). Kizugawadai Nara-Seika Line

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NICT Headquarters Yamadagawa Yamadagawa I.C. Universal Communication Research Institute National Route 163 Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center Kintetsu Keihanna Line Gakken Nara Tomigaoka

NICT Headquarters

To Kodaira Access by Train To Haijima Kihei-bashi Akaneya-bashi To Kiyose

From JR Kokubunji Station *All buses take about 10 minutes. Itsukaichi-Kaido Kaido Shin-Koganei Koganei-bashi Koganei-Kaido ■ Tachikawa Bus (North Exit) Get off at “Jouhou-Tsuushin-Kenkyuu-Kikou-Mae.” 2-minute walk from bus stop. Jouhou-Tsuushin-Kenkyuu -Kikou-Mae Bus Stop ■ Ginga Tetsudo Bus (North Exit) Sarejio-dori Bound for Kodaira Stn. South Exit. Get off at “Sarejio-douri.” Bus stops in front Bus Stop of NICT. Gakugeidai-kado ■ Keio Bus (South Exit) Bay 1 Kita-odori St. Bound for Kodaira Danchi. Get off at “Jouhou-Tsuushin-Kenkyuu-Kikou-Mae.” Tokyo Reception Gakugei Univ. 2-minute walk from bus stop. Walking route From JR Musashi-Koganei Stn. Ginga Tetsudo Bus ■ Tachikawa Bus Keio Bus (North Exit) Bay 5 Bus Terminus Bus Terminus Bound for Kodaira Danchi. Get off at “Jouhou-Tsuushin-Kenkyuu-Kikou-Mae” Bus Terminus (Bay 5) (approx. 15 minutes). 2-minute walk from bus stop. JR Chuo Line From Kodaira Stn. On Seibu Shinjuku Line JR Kokubunji Stn. JR Musashi-Koganei Stn. To Tachikawa To Tokyo ■ Ginga Tetsudo Bus (South Exit) Keio Bus Terminus (Bay 1) Bound for Kokubunji Station Entrance. Get off at “Sarejio-douri” (approx. 15 minutes). Bus stops in front of NICT.

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (HQ) 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan URL : http://www.nict.go.jp/ For inquiries regarding NICT, please contact the Public Relations Dept. Tel:（042）327ー5392 Fax:（042）327ー7587 E-mail : [email protected] 2018.6

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Greetings Data-driven Intelligent System Research Center【 DIRECT 】

Means of communication have diversied in recent years as our In this increasingly complex global society, there are frequent examples in which unforeseen connections between society has become global and is becoming multicultural. Communication seemingly unrelated information have brought about grave consequences. The Data-driven Intelligent System Research technologies—the infrastructure of communications—continue to Center（ DIRECT） conducts research and development into simple, user-friendly systems for obtaining these kinds of evolve and with IoT (Internet of Things) allowing all ‘things’ to be combinations of information, and massive language databases to support such technology. More specically, DIRECT connected, the boundary between cyberspace and physical space is develops technologies for conducting deep analysis of massive volumes of data on a semantic level, and technologies for becoming less noticeable. New values can be created by analyzing discovering valuable combinations of the information thus obtained and hypotheses based on that information. The massive and diverse information (big data) from both spaces using large-scale Web Information analysis system, WISDOM X, applies the technologies described above to more than 4 billion articial intelligence (AI). However, while this has demonstrated web pages, to postulate answers and hypotheses to the questions of “what,” “why,” and “what will happen.” The possibilities in resolving some of the social issues such as language DISAster-information ANAlyzer, DISAANA（ a collaboration with the Resilient ICT Research Center） conducts real-time analysis of barriers and shortage of labor due to the declining birthrate and the information related to disasters posted on social networking services. It has actually been used to collect information and ascertain aging society, we still face many challenges in nding truly valuable the situation during large-scale disasters. information from big data, establishing mutual understanding by Dr. Kiyotaka Uchimoto, taking advantage of such information, and taking the right actions in Director General a society where di erent cultures coexist. The Universal Communication Research Institute (UCRI) has been conducting research and development (R&D) on speech-to-speech translation and information analysis technologies, as well as real-space information analytics based on big data, etc., with the aim to achieve universal communication; Q: What will happen if global warming progresses? nding, creating, and using valuable information, and establishing mutual understanding among the Q: In what areas of Tokyo are people stranded and people. Since 2015, we have been promoting R&D on social knowledge analysis technologies using AI, • Sea levels will rise unable to get home? • Typhoons will become larger such as natural language processing and deep learning, to analyze large amounts of text on a semantic • Plankton numbers will decline level and generate valuable combinations of information and hypotheses. We have also been focusing on • Damage worth 100 trillion yen a year Provides grounds for these answers and information services platform technologies by taking advantage of IoT; utilizing widely varied sensor proposes questions about further impacts. Answers are possible with a click of the information as well as image and video data from various elds. The results of these R&D have been mouse. implemented into practical systems or made into databases and released to the public as open source or via industry-government-academia collaboration projects such as "Advanced LAnGuage INformation Forum (ALAGIN)." We also conduct joint eld experiments with private companies to further promote WISDOM X DISAANA social implementation of our R&D outcomes. http://wisdom-nict.jp/ http://disaana.jp/

Information Services Platform Laboratory Organization The Information Services Platform Laboratory conducts research and development of data collection and analysis Universal Communication Research Institute technologies to appropriately collect and analyze real-space information connected closely to social life, such as torrential rains and environmental change, and to provide a platform for the use of information that is e ective in social life. It also Planning Oce（ Keihanna , HQ） conducts research and development of data mining technologies that, through the cross-domain integration and correlation analysis of environmental data with a variety of social data, can analyze as model cases the concrete impacts on Data-driven Intelligent System Research Center（Keihanna） and relevance to transport and other social systems. Further, through the research and development of methods for feeding back the results of such analysis into sensors and devices, as a mechanism for making use of those results in real space, and of the state of e ective sensor technology, the Laboratory is developing and trialing systems with the aim of Information Services Platform Laboratory HQ （ ） creating basic technologies to realize systems for advanced situation awareness and behavior support, with the goals of optimizing and improving eciency of social systems.

* Research Promotion Council of Keihanna Info-Communication Open Laboratory Link to existing The purpose of this Council is to use the Keihanna Info-Communication Open Laboratory and to build e ective information collaborations in relevant elds with government, industry, and academia, including universities, services and use in communications carriers, broadcasters, manufacturers, research institutes, venture companies, and various regional municipalities, to create new info-communication related services and industries originating in applications the Kansai area, and at the same time contribute to human resource development. https://www.khn-openlab.jp/en/index.html

*Advanced LanGuage Information Forum（ ALAGIN） The goal of this Forum is the deployment and dissemination, as well as the further advancement of research and development, of “super communication technologies” that will realize communication that eliminates a sense of the “barriers” of language. It targets technologies that will overcome language barriers, which separates humans from other humans and humans from machines, and the barriers of the quality and quantity of information on the ● Social data ● Web contents ● Environmental sensing data ● Video contents Internet. It will pursue this goal by promoting collaborations with government, industry, and academia. https://www.alagin.jp/index-e.html 【 Real-space Information Analysis 】