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The Language Grid

Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability

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Editors:
  1. Toru Ishida

    1. , Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • This is the first book describing the Language Grid, an infrastructure that allows end users to create composite language services for intercultural collaboration.-
  • The book will be valuable for researchers in artificial intelligence, particularly in the areas of machine translation and human-computer interaction.-
  • The contributing authors are leading experts in the field of intercultural collaboration, drawn from 7 countries in Asia and Europe.

Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Language Grid Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Approach to Sharing Language Resources

      • Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin
      Pages 3-17

    3. Service Grid Architecture

      • Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin, Masahiro Tanaka, Takao Nakaguchi, Toru Ishida
      Pages 19-34

    4. Intercultural Collaboration Tools Based on the Language Grid

      • Masahiro Tanaka, Rieko Inaba, Akiyo Nadamoto, Tomohiro Shigenobu
      Pages 35-49

  3. Composing Language Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Horizontal Service Composition for Language Services

      • Ahlem Ben Hassine, Shigeo Matsubara, Toru Ishida
      Pages 53-67

    3. Service Supervision for Runtime Service Management

      • Masahiro Tanaka, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami
      Pages 69-83

    4. Language Service Ontology

      • Yoshihiko Hayashi, Thierry Declerck, Nicoletta Calzolari, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Paul Buitelaar
      Pages 85-100

  4. Language Grid for Using Language Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Cascading Translation Services

      • Rie Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida
      Pages 103-117

    3. Sharing Multilingual Resources to Support Hospital Receptions

      • Mai Miyabe, Takashi Yoshino, Aguri Shigeno
      Pages 119-132

    4. Exploring Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations

      • Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida
      Pages 133-148

  5. Language Grid for Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Intercultural Community Development for Kids around the World

      • Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yumiko Mori, Alvin W. Yeo
      Pages 151-165

    3. Language-Barrier-Free Room for Second Life

      • Takashi Yoshino, Katsuya Ikenobu
      Pages 167-182

    4. Conversational Grounding in Machine Translation Mediated Communication

      • Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida
      Pages 183-198

  6. Language Grid for Translation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Humans in the Loop of Localization Processes

      • Donghui Lin
      Pages 201-213

    3. Collaborative Translation Protocols

      • Daisuke Morita, Toru Ishida
      Pages 215-230
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Keywords

About this book

There is increasing interaction among communities with multiple languages, thus we need services that can effectively support multilingual communication. The Language Grid is an initiative to build an infrastructure that allows end users to create composite language services for intercultural collaboration. The aim is to support communities to create customized multilingual environments by using language services to overcome local language barriers. The stakeholders of the Language Grid are the language resource providers, the language service users, and the language grid operators who coordinate the former.

This book includes 18 chapters in six parts that summarize various research results and associated development activities on the Language Grid. The chapters in Part I describe the framework of the Language Grid, i.e., service-oriented collective intelligence, used to bridge providers, users and operators. Two kinds of software are introduced, the service grid server software and the Language Grid Toolbox, and code for both is available via open source licenses. Part II describes technologies for service workflows that compose atomic language services. Part III reports on research work and activities relating to sharing and using language services. Part IV describes various applications of language services as applicable to intercultural collaboration. Part V contains reports on applying the Language Grid for translation activities, including localization of industrial documents and Wikipedia articles. Finally, Part VI illustrates how the Language Grid can be connected to other service grids, such as DFKI's Heart of Gold and smart classroom services in Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The book will be valuable for researchers in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, services computing and human--computer interaction, particularly those who are interested in bridging technologies and user communities.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

About the editor

Toru Ishida is a Professor in the Dept. of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was a research scientist at NTT Laboratories, and has spent time at many leading academic institutions as a visiting scholar or professor, including Columbia University, Technische Universität München, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, the University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Tsinghua University. His particular research interest is social informatics, and he manages research projects in the areas of digital cities and intercultural collaboration. He has been an IEEE fellow since 2002.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Language Grid

  • Book Subtitle: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability

  • Editors: Toru Ishida

  • Series Title: Cognitive Technologies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21178-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-21177-5Published: 29 July 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27046-8Published: 27 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-21178-2Published: 29 July 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1611-2482

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6635

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 306

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics

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