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Hitachi Wins First Place in Multiple Tasks of CoNLL 2020 Shared Task and SemEval 2020, International Competitions for Natural Language Processing
This achievement is the first time for a Japanese company, producing novel technologies in AI and Natural Language Processing fundamentals
Tokyo, December 02, 2020 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, Hitachi) today announced that it has won in multiple tasks in both CoNLL 2020 Shared Task and SemEval 2020, which are international competitions for natural language processing. This is the first time for a Japanese company to win first place in both competitions in the same year, and the first time for a Japanese company to win first place in the CoNLL Shared Task.
In order to accelerate the digital transformation (DX) of society and enterprises, Hitachi has been focusing on research and development of digital solution technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies that analyze rapidly growing social and customer data to solve their problems.
In the field of AI, Hitachi has been conducting research on analyzing and processing natural languages such as Japanese and English that are used in daily communication, and Hitachi was able to achieve this result while participating in the competition to develop fundamental technology and human resources.
Hitachi will continue to contribute to increasing the value of customers and improving the Quality of Life (QoL) of people through research and development of AI and natural language processing.
