Asian Information HUB Project: NICT´s R&D Vsion and Strategies for Universal Communication Technology in the Big Data Era

The Universal Communications Research Institute (UCRI), NICT conducts research and development on universal communication technologies: multi-lingual machine translation, spoken dialogue, information analysis and ultra-realistic interaction technologies, through which people can truly interconnect, anytime, anywhere, about any topic, and by any method, transcending the boundaries of language, culture, ability and distance. To realizing universal communication, UCRI collects diverse information including huge volumes of web pages focusing on information from Asia. This paper introduces NICT´s vision and strategies for Asian information hub as a platform for collecting, storing, analyzing large-scale information and providing advanced communication services in Big Data Era.