Natural Language Processing and Its Social Implementation

Abstract

In this paper, the cooperation between technological development and social implementation is described on the basis of the author's experience in natural language processing research and development of language resources. First, I describe the social implementation project of natural language processing technology currently underway. Next, I discuss the issues and directions of natural language processing technology for social implementation. After describing the importance of data in artificial intelligence systems, I introduce our experience in language data development so far. I also describe the AI Data Consortium we established recently for sharing data with society. I also explain the related activities on international standardization. Finally, I discuss human language understanding and artificial intelligence from a broader perspective.