The Language Grid for Intercultural Collaboration
Toru Ishida · 2010
In this paper, we describe the design philosophy of the Language Grid, a new language infrastructure to create multilingual environments for intercultural collaboration. The key idea is to apply a service-oriented approach to wrap various language resources, which are globally distributed, and to combine them to create customized multilingual tools for local activities. We show how we are developing a global community to share language services and how local communities are adopting them for their daily life. Though the Language Grid is available in public, we can use the software to design a private language grid for a specific community. A Wikipedia translation community is described as one example of a multi-language environment.