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[The Multilingual Medical Communication Support System Is Launched in Kyoto University Hospital]
[Language Grid Users] Sugawara & Manabe Laboratory, Chiba Institute of Technology
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The Multilingual Medical Communication Support System Is Launched in Kyoto University Hospital
The Special Interest Group on Medical Support Systems for
Foreigners of the Language Grid Association issued a press
release announcing that they have launched the multilingual communication support system for hospitals, called
M3 (m-cube), in Kyoto University Hospital's general
reception area.
M3 has been developed mainly by the nonprofit organization Center for Multicultural Society Kyoto and
Yoshino Laboratory of Wakayama University. With touch panel
operation, this system supports communication between patients who are non-native Japanese speakers and Japanese hospital staff.
Patients can get information on wards and check the reception procedures in their native
languages. Supported languages are Japanese, English, Chinese, Portuguese, and Korean.
Language Grid Users: Sugawara & Manabe Laboratory, Chiba Institute of Technology
Sugawara & Manabe Lab of Chiba Institute of Technology has been conducting
research on artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and ubiquitous computing. We started using Language Grid when we began
collaborative development of the municipality supporting system with Professor
Claude Moulin of Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (UTC) during his six-week stay in our lab. As an example problem of municipality
support, we chose the situation in which long-stay foreign residents ask questions on how to receive the municipality's services
at a resident service section in a city hall office. We chose this situation because Professor Moulin had such an experience as
a core member of Terregov, a research project in Europe. In the project, he developed ontology to share documents between
municipalities in EU member nations. We hear that residents cross borders very often between EU member nations for jobs or
business activities, and cross-referencing of municipality documents is an important issue. Given that we also have an
increasing number of long-stay residents from other countries for business in Japan, multilingual support at municipalities
may become more and more necessary.
Professor Moulin and I visited Ishida & Matsubara Lab in Kyoto University and told Professor Ishida that we would like to use Language Grid as a translator in our application. We heard a presentation and
explanations on the scheme of Language Grid, and Professor Moulin signed the agreement to be a Language Grid User. I have been
told he holds meetings on Language Grid with other researchers in France. I hope the Language Grid will spread globally in th
future.