A History of AI Research and Development in Thailand: Three Periods, Three Directions

Artificial intelligence (AI) was first taught in Thailand at government universities more than 30 years ago. Thai-language lecture notes on artificial intelligence (AI) were used in 1975 for teaching an AI course at a university. In 1992 the first AI laboratory was established at the Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University. Research on Thai language processing and expert systems was then concentrated on at the laboratory. King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi also set up its own AI center — as a loosely affiliated group. Yuen Poovarawan was the pioneer in computer language processing of the Thai language. Since 1990 he has produced a wide range of well-recognized pieces of work, including a Thai text editor, a Thai thesaurus, e-dictionary, a morphological analysis tool, Worldwide AI