Automatically generating a natural language description of an image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence. This task involves both computer vision and natural language processing and is called “image caption generation.” Research on image caption generation has typically focused on taking in an image and generating a caption in English as existing image caption corpora are mostly ...

The present situations and future prospects of the Japanese automobile industry are discussed. Selected topics in this paper include the following: analyses of the basic product-industry characteristics of the automobile (e.g., product architecture); the mature of the dynamic competition in the world auto industry; competitive performance (e.g., productivity) of the Japanese auto makers; organi...

This paper describes a multilingual data extraction system under development for the Department of Defense (Do[)). The system, called Murasa.ki, processes Spanish and Japanese newspaper articles reporting AIDS disease statistics. Key to Murasaki's design is its language-independent and domain-independent architecture. The system consists of shared processing modules across the three languages i...

This study analyzed 15 unique cases of buildings designed by the Japanese that had exterior appearance traditional Korean architecture while Western timber truss was applied. The characteristics Korean-style roofs were first categorized into three parts: structural frame, roof curve, and eaves space. Then, analytic drawings prepared in order to scrutinize accordance with these characteristics. ...

This paper describes a machine translation architecture that integrates the use el' examples for flexible, idiomatic translations with the use o1' linguistic rules for broad coverage and grammatical acctu'acy. We have implemented a prototype for English-to-Japanese translation, and our ewfluation shows lhat tile system has good translation quality, and only requires reasonable computational res...