The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration
To increase the accessibility and usability of online language services, this talk explains the Language Grid, which facilitates the creation of composite language services for various intercultural collaboration activities. The Language Grid is an initiative to build an infrastructure that allows end users to create new language services for their intercultural / multilingual activities. To this end, language resources (including data and programs) are wrapped as web services so that users can easily combine these services to create workflows that suit their own activities. Thus, the Language Grid can be seen as collective intelligence based on language services. The Language Grid is called "horizontal," when the grid connects standard languages, or "vertical," when the grid combines the language services generated by communities.
Toru Ishida is a professor of Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, and a leader of the NICT Language Grid Project.
Until 1993, he was a research scientist of NTT Laboratories. He spent some time at Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Le Laboratoire d’Informatique, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies of University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Computer Science and Technology Department of Tsinghua University as a visiting scholar/professor. He is an IEEE fellow from 2002.
He has been working on autonomous agents and multiagent systems for twenty years. He also studies social informatics and is running research projects related to digital cities and intercultural collaboration.