Morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis of texts, like the ones presented in the previous chapters, are usually performed in order to prepare the text for an precise application. The goal of the current chapter is focus on these applications of NLP.
Just like in the USA or in Europe, the main efforts in Japan are focused on applications that will enable the computers to have a high added value compared with human in the field of textual document manipulation and processing. Among these applications with huge potential economical rewards we can quote the following: