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The National Institute of Informatics (NII) was established in April 2000 as an inter-university research institute of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan. NII is pursuing a comprehensive and wide-range research program to build the academic field of informatics, with the following seven pillars as the center of its development efforts: information foundation, infrastructure of information systems, software, multimedia, intelligence systems, utilization of information in the research field, and policy for strengthening the ties between information and society. NII conducts research in several areas related to language technologies including information extraction, information retrieval, knowledge acquisition for machine translation, logical inference, terminology processing and parsing.
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