Remembering Makoto Nagao
May 26, 2021 | BY webmaster
It is with deep sadness that we share the news of Prof. Makoto Nagao’s passing on May 23, 2021. A recipient of the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), Prof. Nagao was one of the pioneers of computational linguistics. He made significant contributions to several major research topics, including machine translation, corpus-based linguistics, electronic dictionaries, and digital libraries. He also endeavored the establishment of the International Association for Machine Translation, and became the organization's first president. Prof.
