NICT Language Grid Project aims to provide infrastructure for combining existing standard language services provided by linguistic professionals, and to assist users to create new language services for their own purposes by permitting them to add their own language resources to the ones made by professionals.
The project involves the collaboration of industry, government, universities, and citizens.
Language Grid Operation Center coordinates the trial usage of the Language Grid for non-profit activities.
For trial operation, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University serves as the Language Grid Operator.
Visit the Language Grid Operation Center for frequently asked questions (FAQs) on operations and procedure for using the Language Grid.
Language Grid Service Manager is a web-based tool to manage the Language Grid for the Language Grid Users and the Operator.
It allows easy management of user information, user access, language/computer resources and language services.
Using the Service Manager the user can search, monitor, control language resources and register, delete, suspend, and restart language and computation resources.
Services Computing School Website provides exercises for learning fundamental concepts of Web services and Web service composition.
Professors can educate services computing in universities using this website, and students can conduct hands on exercies on services computing using the language services (machine translators, multilingual dictionaries, morphological analyzers, parallel texts and others) provided by the Language Grid.
Language Grid Association is a loosely coupled organization formed by collaboration among industry, government, academia, and citizens.
The goal of the Association is to advance the technology and application of the Language Grid.
The Association consists of various SIGs (Special Interest Groups) such as research groups or projects, whose aim is to accumulate use cases and best practices.
The Intercultural Collaboration Gateway is created for gathering information about intercultural collaboration, and for encouraging discussions on how to create a new field under collaboration among CSCW, language technologies and social informatics.
The project involves the collaboration of industry, government, universities, and citizens.