2011 - SIG-AI and SIG-IC Joint Workshop "Language Grid and Intercultural Collaboration", The Instuitue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

SIG-AI and SIG-IC Joint Workshop "Language Grid and Intercultural Collaboration", The Instuitue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

Organized by

SIG-AI and SIG-IC, The Instuitue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

Chair

Takashi YOSHINO, Wakayama University

Organizing Committee

Yasuhiko KITAMURA, Kwansei Gakuin University
Shigeo MATSUBARA, Kyoto University
Yasuhiro KATAGIRI, Future University HAKODATE
Takashi YOSHINO, Wakayama University
Naomi YAMASHITA, NTT

Content

By the spread of the Internet, intercultural collaboration on a global mass scale is becoming possible. However, the difference of the languages interrupts our free communication and makes the collaboration more difficult. The Language Grid is an attempt to solve this problem using machine translation and information communication technologies, and it provides an information platform which enables to develop various machine translation systems and applications combining language services on the Internet (language resources such as parallel translation dictionaries or language processing functions such as machine translators). This workshop offers a forum to discuss research issues concerning the Language Grid and intercultural collaboration.