Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation
April 17, 2026

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support of the activities of our association.
Our association celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. To commemorate this milestone, we will hold AAMT 2026, NARA under the theme of “New Co-evolution of Translation and Humans for the LLM Era,” with an international track on Sunday, September 13 and a Japanese track on Monday, September 14 at the Todaiji Cultural Center in Nara. The event will be held in a hybrid format, featuring online live streaming in addition to the in-person conference.

At the international track, we will have keynote speeches by Jun’ichi Tsujii, Ph.D., Fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Sadao Kurohashi, Ph.D., Director General, National Institute of Informatics. Furthermore, we will invite excellent speakers from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, industrial translation and machine interpretation, to share their insights on the challenges and future initiatives of machine translation. We hope for your active participation.

Lastly, we look forward to seeing you at the international track and the Japanese track (also serving as our annual meeting), at the venue or through livestream.

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Day 1—Sunday, September 13

	Jun'ichi Tsujii, Ph.D. Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo Professor, The University of Manchester
	Sadao Kurohashi, Ph.D. Director General, National Institute of Informatics Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) President, Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) Former Member-at-Large, International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT)
	Prof. Yvonne Tsai Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Taiwan University Yvonne Tsai is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University. Her teaching and research focus on translation technology, MTPE and AI-assisted translation, translation project management, crisis translation, legal translation, and translator education. She is the author of Translating University Regulations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024), and her recent work examines the impact of AI and digital tools on translation pedagogy and professional practice. Her publications on translation technology include “Student Translators’ Perceptions of Translator–Computer Interaction in Collaborative Drama Translation Practice” (Journal of Translation Studies, 2024) and “Technology Advancement and Patent Translation” (Journal of Translation Technology, 2015). She has also presented widely on AI and translation education, including “From Machine to Human: Translation Pedagogy Design and Post-Editing Practice in the Age of AI” at Taiwan Fu Jen University, “Teaching Song Translation in the Age of AI: Skopos Theory and Multimodality in the Translation Classroom” at the 30th International Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Teaching, and “Singing Across Algorithms: Human and AI Song Translation in a Multimodal Context” at the CIUTI Conference 2026 in Milan.