Contents
‐The Language Grid Published by Springer!
‐The Language Grid Association General Meeting
‐New Language Resources
‐The 2nd "International Conference on Culture and Computing" and Workshop "Language Grid and Intercultural Collaboration"
‐Attention! Another Language Grid Book!
‐Language Grid Users: Kubota Laboratory, Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
‐Periodic Maintenance: Nov.7th 2011, Dec.5th 2011 and Jan. 10th, 2012
‐Message from the Editorial Committee
The Language Grid Published by Springer!
The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interope-rability, a book which summarizes the research, developments, and activities of the five-year Lan-guage Grid Project, was published by Springer, the Cognitive Technologies Series. The book con-sists of 18 chapters in six parts, which are written by 36 authors in nine countries in the various research areas including Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Services Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction.
In the Language Grid Framework section, the design concept and framework of the Language Grid are described. Composing Language Services reports the research results of key technolo-gies for language service composition. The Language Grid for Using Language Resources section discusses research and the phenomenon of using and sharing language resources.
Language Grid for Communication contains the introduction of cases of using the Language Grid for intercultural collaboration. In Language Grid for Translation, advanced research activities of using the Language Grid for localization and Wikipedia translation are introduced. The last part, Towards Federation of Service Grids, discusses the federation of the Language Grid and other service grids.
For more detailed information, please visit the Springer website as follows. http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-21177-5
The Language Grid Association General Meeting
On October 1st (Sat), the Language Grid Association General Meeting and the Operation Meet-ing was held at Osaka Electro-Communication University.
The following two SIGs (Special Interest Group) were proposed, and both were approved:
- Newsletter Committee (type-3)
- Toolbox User Group (type-3)
On that day, the SIGMUSE (Special Interest Group on Multilingual Support for Education) 4th Report Meeting was held at the same venue. With 8 research presentations, participants shared and discussed information.
From the next physical year, we will extend the SIGMUSE Report Meeting to the Language Grid Association Report Meeting, where all organizations in the association, not only organizations related to education, can share information.
It was also decided to hold the Report Meeting with the General Meeting next spring.
New Language Resources
New language resources were added to the Language Grid. (In the order of resource name, provider, and supported languages.)
[Dictionary]
YMC Rice Dictionary/ NPO Pangaea/ Vietnamese, English, Japanese
[Parallel Text]
YMC Expert Answer Parallel Text/ NPO Pangaea/ Vietnamese, English, Japanese
[Morphological Analyzer]
MA for Tagalog/ De La Salle University/ Tagalog
The 2nd "International Conference on Culture and Computing" and Workshop "Language Grid and Intercultural Collaboration"
The 2nd International Conference on Culture and Computing is about to commence.
In the Technical Paper (Main Track), we have a session for "Intercultural Collaboration," and there are several research presentations of intercultural collaboration based on the Language Grid.
On-site registration is available, so do not hesitate to attend if you are interested.
As a collaborated event, SIG-AI and SIG-IC Joint Workshop "Language Grid and Intercultural Collaboration", The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) is going to be held during the conference. (Call for papers are closed.)
[Date] October 20th (Thu) - October 22nd (Sat), 2011
[Venue] Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall
Attention! Another Language Grid Book!
Recently, another Language Grid book is being sold on Amazon.
However, the publisher and editor of the book have no relations with the Language Grid. The book has about 80 pages and costs 48USD. The content is mainly edited from combining some articles about Artificial Intelligence and Services Computing from Wikipedia. Please be attention not to buy this book by mistake.
Language Grid Users: Kubota Laboratory, Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
[Exchange with Australian Schools]
As part of their integrated studies, eighth graders at Kansai University Junior High Schools are involved in an ongoing exchange program with five schools
in Australia in order to understand other cultures through international exchange.
This academic year, students have participated cultural exchange with five schools in Australia: Shenton College High School, Mount Anna High School, Hillbrook Anglucan School, Millao State School, and Derrinallum P-12 School.
To overcome language barriers, students on both ends engage in dialogue using real-time translation software through a networked bulletin board system.
Through this system, everyone introduced themselves, shared information about their favorite foods and hometowns, and exchanged views on a variety of subjects.
Translation can release students’ language barrier and stress from struggling with creating sentences.
While using the BBS, students checked pronunciation they do not know and enjoyed creating original comments based on what they want to say.
The exchange experience is conceived to help prepare students to communicate effectively with people from all countries. Kansai University Junior High School will continue to actively pursue exchange relationships for students with overseas institutions.
Periodic Maintenance
Periodic maintenance will be carried out below. If you wish to use the Language Grid during this period, please contact us in advance at operation [at] langrid.org.
‐October 3rd, Monday/ from 18:00 to 21:00 (JST)
‐November 7th, Monday/ from 18:00 to 21:00 (JST)
‐January 10th 2012, Tuesday/ from 18:00 to 21:00 (JST)
--- Message from the Editorial Committee ---
In the Language Grid Association General Meeting on October 1st (Sat), the Newsletter Committee was approved as an SIG (Special Interest Group) activity. From now on, we will publish newsletters quarterly.