Services Computing for Language Resources

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Describing the technologies to combine language resources flexibly as web services, this book provides valuable case studies for those who work in services computing, language resources, human–computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), and service science. The authors have been operating the Language Grid, which wraps existing language resources as atomic language services and enables users to compose new services by combining them. From architecture level to service composition level, the book explains how to resolve infrastructural and operational difficulties in sharing and combining language resources, including interoperability of language service infrastructures, various types of language service policies, human services, and service failures. The research based on the authors’ operating experiences of handling complicated issues such as intellectual property and interoperability of language resources contributes to exploitation of language resources as a service. On the other hand, both the analysis based on using services and the design of new services can bring significant results. A new style of multilingual communication supported by language services is worthy of analysis in HCI/CSCW, and the design process of language services is the focus of valuable case studies in service science. By using language resources in different ways based on the Language Grid, many activities are highly regarded by diverse communities. This book consists of four parts: (1) two types of language service platforms to interconnect language services across service grids, (2) various language service composition technologies that improve the reusability, efficiency, and accuracy of composite services, (3) research work and activities in creating language resources and services, and (4) various applications and tools for understanding and designing language services that well support intercultural collaboration. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Federated Grid Architecture for Language Services (Yohei Murakami, Takao Nakaguchi, Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida)....Pages 3-20 Language Mashup: Personalized Language Service Platform (Masayuki Otani, Nguyen Cao Hong Ngoc, Takao Nakaguchi, Donghui Lin)....Pages 21-37 Front Matter ....Pages 39-39 Language Service Composition Based on Higher Order Functions (Takao Nakaguchi, Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida)....Pages 41-56 Policy-Aware Language Service Composition (Trang Mai Xuan, Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida)....Pages 57-74 Optimizing Crowdsourcing Workflow for Language Services (Shinsuke Goto, Toru Ishida, Donghui Lin)....Pages 75-89 Cascading-Failure Tolerance for Language Service Networks (Kemas M. Lhaksmana, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami)....Pages 91-105 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 A Constraint Approach to Lexicon Induction for Low-Resource Languages (Mairidan Wushouer, Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami)....Pages 109-123 Language Service Design Based on User-Centered QoS (Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami)....Pages 125-137 Front Matter ....Pages 139-139 Consistency Analysis in Multi-language Knowledge Sharing System (Amit Pariyar, Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida)....Pages 141-156 Supporting Non-native Speakers’ Listening Comprehension with Automated Transcripts (Xun Cao, Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida)....Pages 157-173 Translation Agent (Chunqi Shi, Toru Ishida, Donghui Lin)....Pages 175-192 Gaming for Language Services (Yuu Nakajima, Ryutaro Otsuka, Reiko Hishiyama, Takao Nakaguchi, Naoyuki Oda)....Pages 193-208 Youth Mediated Communication: Knowledge Transfer as Intercultural Communication (Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yumiko Mori, Toru Ishida, Masayuki Otani)....Pages 209-223 Back Matter ....Pages 225-225