Language Grid

Toru Ishida is a Professor in the Dept. of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was a research scientist at NTT Laboratories, and has spent time at many leading academic institutions as a visiting scholar or professor, including Columbia University, Technische Universität München, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, the University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Tsinghua University. His particular research interest is social informatics, and he manages research projects in the areas of digital cities and intercultural collaboration. He has been an IEEE fellow since 2002.

• Part I – Language Grid Framework Chap.- 1 – The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Approach to Sharing Language Resources Chap.- 2 – Service Grid Architecture Chap.-3 – Intercultural Collaboration Tools Based on the Language Grid.- Part II – Composing Language Services Chap.- 4 – Horizontal Service Composition for Language Services Chap.- 5 – Service Supervision for Runtime Service Management Chap.- 6 – Language Service Ontology.- Part III – Language Grid for Using Language Resources Chap.- 7 – Cascading Translation Services Chap.- 8 – Sharing Multilingual Resources to Support Hospital Receptions Chap.- 9 – Exploring Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations.- Part IV – Language Grid for Communication Chap.- 10 – Intercultural Community Development for Kids Around the World Chap.- 11 – Language-Barrier-Free Room for Second Life Chap.- 12 – Conversational Grounding in Machine Translation Mediated Communication.- Part V – Language Grid for Translation Chap.- 13 – Humans in the Loop of Localization Processes Chap.- 14 – Collaborative Translation Protocols Chap.- 15 – Multilanguage Discussion Platform for Wikipedia Translation.- Part VI – Towards Federation of Service Grids Chap.- 16 – Pipelining Software and Services for Language Processing Chap.- 17 – Integrating Smart Classroom and Language Services Chap.- 18 – Federated Operation Model for Service Grids.