Language Grid Services

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Language Grid Services
Language Service User
Language Service User
Language Service User
Language Service User
Computation Resource Provider
Computing Resource Provider
Language Resource Provider
Language Resource Provider
Language Grid Operator
Language Grid Operator

• NICT Language Grid Project(URL
  http//langrid.nict.go.jp/ E-mail
  langrid_at_khn.nict.go.jp)

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Service Layers of the Language Grid
Intercultural Collaboration Support
Intercultural Collaboration Tools
Multilingual communication is supported using
various language services. NICT provides Language
Grid collaboration tools.
Language Services (back translations, specialized
translations, .)
Language Service Composition
Multiple language resources are composed using
Web service workflows.
Language Resources (machine translations,
morphological analyzers, dictionaries, parallel
texts)
Language Resource Usability
Language resources are made usable as Web
services with standardized interfaces.
Language Computation Resource Management
P2P Grid Infrastructure
Allow users to connect to Language Grid servers
on the Internet. Make language and computation
resources accessible from all over the world.
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Intercultural Collaboration Tools
Language Grid Toolbox Intercultural
Collaboration Tools
Multilingual Dictionary Creation
Language Grid Toolbox is a Web application that
uses language services on the Language Grid to
provide various functions for supporting
multilingual communities
Translation quality can be improved by creating
and composing community dictionaries
Translation Text translation, Web translation
Language Resource Creation Multilingual
dictionary, multilingual parallel text, etc.
CommunityCollaborative translation, discussion
based on contents sharing, etc.
CommunicationMultilingual BBS
Text Translation
Translation results can be re-translated into the
original language for quality confirmation by
using back translation.
Posted messages are translated into multiple
languages and users can modify translation
results for improving the quality.
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Language Services
Language Services used by Intercultural
Collaboration Tools Example of Translation from
English into Japanese, Korean, and French
En-Ko Specialized Translation Workflow
Please look for the shelter in the neighborhood.
Atomic Services
Shelter is registered in a specialized
dictionary
TreeTagger (Universitat Stuttgart)
English Morphological Analysis Service
Multilingual Back Translation Workflow
Multi-language Glossary on Natural Disasters
(Asian Disaster Reduction Center)
En-Ko Translation Workflow
En to Fr Specialized Translation Service
En to Ko Specialized Translation Service
En to Ja Specialized Translation Service
Any specializedterm?
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YES
Fr to En Specialized Translation Service
Ko to En Specialized Translation Service
Ja to En Specialized Translation Service
WEB-Transer (Cross Language, Inc.)
Specialized Dictionary Service
En to Ja Translation Service
En to Ko Translation Service
J-Server (Kodensha Co., Ltd.)
Ja to Ko Translation Service
Back Translation
Translation
Ja Japanese En English Ko Korean Fr French
Ja ????????????????? Please, look for the near
shelter. Fr Veuillez rechercher le refuge dans
le voisinage. Please search for the shelter in
the neighborhood. Ko ??? ?? ???? ??
????. Please look for a close shelter.
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Language Resources
Web Services
Language resources are registered as Web services
equipped with standard interface based on the
language service ontology.
Language Resource
Standard Interface
Machine Translation
Language Grid
Morphological Analyzer
Machine Translation
ParallelTexts
Community Dictionary
Machine Translation
Community Dictionary
ParallelTexts
Language Service User
Available Machine Translations
Machine Translation
German
As of June 2007
Machine Translation
French
Machine Translation
Korean
Machine Translation
Machine Translation
English
Japanese
Spanish
Machine Translation
Chinese
Machine Translation
Portuguese
Machine Translation
Italian
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P2P Grid Infrastructure
Language Grid Core Node
Language service management, Search
Composition, and Execution.
Language Grid Service Node
Provides language resources as language services.
Sharing Information
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Invoking Services
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Ja Japanese En English Ko Korean Zh Chinese Es
Spanish Fr French
Korean Morphological Analyzer
Japanese Morphological Analyzer
Life Science Dictionary (ja, en)
En to Fr Translator
Multi-language Glossary on Natural Disasters(Ja,
En, Ko, Zh, Es, Fr)
Ja to Ko Translator
Ja to En Translator
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