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.
Venue
Todaiji Cultural Center, Small Hall
406-1 Zoshicho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture 630-8587, Japan
https://www.todaiji.or.jp/information/hall/
The event will be held in a hybrid format, featuring Zoom webinars in addition to the in-person
conference.
The video created using Zoom's recording function will be publicly available (for two weeks after the
event ends).
*Whether you attend in person or online, you can view the video within the specified period.
Program
|
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 |
|
|
Translation in the Age of Generative AI: Open Foundation Models and the Future of Human Expertise
Sadao Kurohashi, Ph.D.
Abstract：Generative AI is beginning to reshape translation as part of a broader range of language and knowledge tasks. This talk focuses mainly on the challenges that accompany this development: the opacity of foundation models, uneven linguistic and cultural coverage, and questions of trust, provenance, and technological sovereignty. Drawing on the activities of LLM-jp and the NII Large Language Model R&D Center, I will discuss the value of open foundation models as transparent research infrastructure. I will also consider how human expertise can be cultivated and passed on as AI assumes a growing role in intellectual work.
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. |
|
|
SEA-LION: Building AI for our Communities - Useful, Accessible and Safe
Jian Gang Ngui／Jeongmi Ahn
AI Singapore
Abstract：SEA-LION is developed by the AI Products team at AI Singapore (AISG), a national AI programme under NRF, building Singapore's deep AI capabilities across research, products and talent.
In this talk, Jian Gang and Jeongmi will introduce SEA-LION, a family of open-source models trained to support Southeast Asian (SEA) languages, cultures and contexts, SEA-HELM, a comprehensive evaluation suite for diagnosing LLMs and their understanding of SEA safety, languages and cultures, as well as various AI tools that support the SEA region, including for machine translation. 
Jian Gang is the Head of Model Development in AI Singapore, and leads the team that develops the SEA-LION family of models, including safety models and embedding models, as well as the team that develops the SEA-HELM evaluation suite and maintains the SEA-HELM leaderboard. He and his team also has formalised their work into various research publications, including 'SEA-LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network', 'SEA-HELM: Southeast Asian Holistic Evaluation of Language Models', 'SEA-Guard: Culturally Grounded Multilingual Safeguard for Southeast Asia', 'Sea-SafeguardBench: Evaluating AI Safety in SEA Languages and Cultures', and 'SEA-BED: Southeast Asia Embedding Benchmark'.
Jeongmi Ahn is an AI Engineer at AI Singapore, where she works on post-training and development of the SEA-LION family of open-source large language models for Southeast Asian languages. Her work focuses on multilingual NLP and improving language technologies for the linguistically diverse Southeast Asian region.
|
|
隅田 英一郎
NICT フェロー 
電気通信大学大学院修士課程修了。京都大学大学院博士（工学）。日本アイ・ビー・エム東京基礎研究所、国際電気通信基礎技術研究所（ATR）を経て2007年から情報通信研究機構（NICT）に勤務（2016年からフェロー）。2010年に音声翻訳のスマホアプリ「VoiceTra（ボイストラ）」、2014年にテキスト翻訳サイト「TexTra（テキストラ）」 を公開。2017年から総務省と協力して自動翻訳の高精度化のために 「翻訳バンク」を運営。また、音声翻訳の国家プロジェクト「グロー バルコミュニケーション計画2025」等を推進。
|
|
|
二宮 俊一郎
株式会社 翻訳センター 代表取締役社長 
（株）翻訳センターに入社して以来、約30年間、翻訳業界に携わる。翻訳の現場経験としては営業職を努める。また、同社や関連会社のマネジメントを多く努める。
1997年４月 （株）翻訳センター 入社 2004年６月 （株）翻訳センター取締役 2012年９月 （株）アイ・エス・エス代表取締役社長 2017年11月 （株）メディア総合研究所 代表取締役社長（現任） 2018年６月 （株）翻訳センター 代表取締役社長（現任） 2024年１月 （株）福山産業翻訳センター 代表取締役社長（現任） 2024年６月 一般社団法人 日本翻訳連盟 代表理事・会長（現任） |
|
|
上野 由紀子
DMG森精機株式会社 部長 
2003年から工作機械の使用説明作成に従事。2016年からは、ドイツの拠点との使用説明の内容および用語の統一、各国語翻訳の効率化を推進してきた。近年は動画マニュアル作成にも取り組んでいる。良質な使用説明作成には関係部署との連携が不可欠であり、円滑なコミュニケーションを図りながら協力し合っている。生成AIなど多様な手法を活用し、業務拡大に対応しつつ効率化と品質向上を追求している。
|
|
|
中 奈美
株式会社堀場テクノサービス チームリーダー 
2000年より株式会社堀場製作所にて、取扱説明書およびサービスドキュメントの制作・管理に従事。2020年からはグループ会社の株式会社堀場テクノサービスに所属し、サービスドキュメントの制作、広報物の校正・校閲、社内で制作されるさまざまな文書の制作支援を担う。技術情報の作り手として、利用者に伝わりやすく、正確な情報を届けるドキュメントづくりに取り組んでいる。
|
|
|
中原 司郎
一般財団法人テクニカルコミュニケーター協会 常務理事 
一般財団法人テクニカルコミュニケーター協会（JTCA）常務理事。パナソニック ハウジングソリューションズ株式会社にて、長年にわたり製品ドキュメンテーションやパブリックリレーションズの責任者を務めたのち現職。現在は同協会の出版および広報部門を統括する。AI技術の急速な進化を見据え、従来の「マニュアル」という枠組みを超えた、これからの時代に求められる新たな「利用者用情報（User Information）」へのアップデートを推進している。本大会では、産業用機器業界における機械翻訳活用の現状とコミュニケーションデザインの未来について議論を展開する。
|
|
|
森口 功造
株式会社川村インターナショナル 代表取締役社長
アジア太平洋機械翻訳協会副会長。品質管理担当として（株）川村インターナショナルに入社後、翻訳、プロジェクトマネジメントなどの制作全般業務を経験。2013年から機械翻訳サービスの開発に携わり、現在は機械翻訳と生成AIを組み合わせたソリューションの開発に取り組んでいる。同社代表取締役社長。
|
Participation Fee
| Classification | In-person attendance 2-day pass |
In-person attendance 1-day pass |
Online attendance 2-day pass |
Online attendance 1-day pass |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member (Corporate/Individual) |
9,000 yen(tax-exempt) | 5,000 yen(tax-exempt) | 5,500 yen(tax-exempt) | 3,000 yen(tax-exempt) |
| Non-member | 19,800 yen(tax included) | 11,000 yen(tax included) | 12,100 yen(tax included) | 6,600 yen(tax included) |
| Member student | 9,000 yen(tax-exempt) | 5,000 yen(tax-exempt) | 2,000 yen(tax-exempt) | 1,000 yen(tax-exempt) |
| Non-member student | 19,800 yen(tax included) | 11,000 yen(tax included) | 4,400 yen(tax included) | 2,200 yen(tax included) |
- ◆ Sales period: Until September 14th, 2026 (Monday)
- ◆ Maximum number of attendees: 100 at the venue each day
Social Gathering
Sunday, September 13, 2026, 18:00 to 20:00 (tentative)
Venue
KIKUSUIRO
https://www.kikusuiro.com/
Participation Fee
Members and non-members (tax included): 10,000 yen
* Sales period: Scheduled until September 8th, 2026 (Tuesday)
If you wish to apply under our new membership campaign, please submit your application in advance using the link below.
Membership application: https://aamt.info/about/admission/
Please write "I would like to take advantage of the new membership campaign" in the comments section.
- ◆ Corporate member
Enrollment fee: 10,000 yen/Annual membership fee (per unit): 50,000 yen - ◆ Individual member
Enrollment fee: 1,000 yen/Annual membership fee (per unit): 5,000 yen (However, students pay a student membership fee of 1,000 yen)
Corporate Exhibition Area
We will set up an exhibition area exclusively for AAMT corporate members, where they can showcase their
companies and products.
AAMT 2026, Nara Corporate Exhibition Application Form (For Corporate Members)
Sponsor Opportunities
Open Call Poster Session
Registration
◆ Sales period: Until September 14th, 2026 (Monday)
＜Social Gathering＞
Members and non-members (tax included): 10,000 yen
※ Sales period: Scheduled until September 8th, 2026 (Tuesday)
Cancellation Policy
- ■ If the event is canceled due to inclement weather, disruption to public transportation, or other unavoidable circumstances, a refund will be issued. However, no refunds will be given for cancellations due to other reasons attributable to the customer. Please be aware of this in advance.
- ■ While you may change your registration from in-person to online attendance due to your convenience, no refund will be given for the difference in price.
Anti-harassment Policy
Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
MINDWORD, Inc.
MINDWORD Inc. specializes in machine translation and automated interpretation, providing tailored multilingual solutions to meet diverse client needs. Our expertise spans from the development and operation of AI translation engines to standalone simultaneous interpreting systems. Through the practical application of these advanced technologies, we help break down language barriers and support seamless communication.
ASCA Corporation
ASCA Corporation specializes in documentation services for the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to offering AIKO SciLingual, its AI translation platform dedicated to medicine and pharmaceuticals, the company applies its AI translation engine SciLingual to translations for clinical trials and regulatory submissions in drug development, and leverages generative AI to significantly reduce turnaround time for Japanese translations of clinical trial protocols. Through fast, highly accurate medical translation, ASCA helps address drug lag and drug loss—delays and gaps in the availability of new drugs in Japan
Inter Group Corporation
Toward a new frontier far beyond the language barrier — Founded as Japan’s first language professional training provider, Inter Group Corporation offers quality language services by combining its unparalleled achievements during its long history with state-of-the-art digital technology to propel the global expansion of enterprises. Rather than simply putting your words into other languages, we make your communication more effective and more strategic, thereby guiding your business to success. Instead of being satisfied with our reputation as a long-established industry pioneer, we continue to evolve and will serve as your trustworthy partner in the co-creation of new possibilities.
Student Invitation Sponsors
Kawamura International Co., Ltd.
Kawamura International Co., Ltd. has been committed to delivering high-quality translation services since its founding more than 40 years ago. By combining decades of translation expertise with cutting-edge AI technology, the company has developed its own language AI platform, LDX hub — an integrated solution that supports the full range of translation and localization operations, from translation risk assessment, style guide development, and terminology management to quality evaluation, translation accuracy enhancement, and document structuring.
Silver Sponsors
Arcadia, Inc.
Arcadia, Inc. provides disaster prevention and mitigation solutions to numerous government agencies, including local governments. Our system distributes disaster-related information through many media, such as email, telephone, facsimile, etc. When distributing information via email in areas with large foreign resident populations, our system automatically translates Japanese text into languages such as English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. Additionally, in case of simultaneously sending email and telephone notifications or automated voice response system, the text messages are first converted to voice messages by our multilingual speech synthesis engine.
Endorsement
- The Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
- The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
- Japan Translation Federation (JTF)
- Japan Patent Information Organization (Japio)
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this event, please feel free to contact us.
AAMT 2026 Secretariat：aamt2026@intergroup.co.jp
AAMT 2026, Nara, Executive Committee
Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)
Office Center, Koeki Building, 9-3 Ichigaya Funagawara-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0826, Japan
URL: https://aamt.info/ MAIL: aamtevent@aamt.info