Intercultural Collaboration

by Ishida, Toru; Fussell, Susan R.; Vossen, Piek T. J. M.

• ISBN13: 9783540739999
• ISBN10: 3540739998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-03
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book presents 29 revised invited and selected lectures given by top-researchers at the First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in January 2007. Intercultural collaboration, from both technical and socio-cultural perspectives was the main theme of the workshop. This state-of-the-art survey increases mutual understanding in our multicultural world by featuring collaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies from field workers. The papers are categorized into topical areas on ontology for language resources and services, developing language resources and services, connecting language resources and services, tools for intercultural collaboration, emotions in intercultural collaboration, analysis of intercultural collaboration, and actual fields of intercultural collaboration.

Table of Contents

Ontology for Language Resources and Services
Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid	p. 1
Towards a Conceptual Core for Multicultural Processing: A Multilingual Ontology Based on the Swadesh List	p. 17
Conceptual Framework of an Upper Ontology for Describing Linguistic Services	p. 31
Formal Ontology of 'Cultures' and 'Ethnic Groups' Based on Type Theory and Functional Programming	p. 46
Capturing a Conceptual Model for Intercultural Collaboration in Copyright Management	p. 61
Developing Language Resources and Services
The Lextype DB: A Web-Based Framework for Supporting Collaborative Multilingual Grammar and Treebank Development	p. 76
Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Resource Development and Intercultural Communication	p. 91
Exploiting Aligned Parallel Corpora in Multilingual Studies and Applications	p. 103
Connecting Language Resources and Services
Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid	p. 118
Hanzi Grid	p. 133
Fostering Intercultural Collaboration: A Web Service Architecture for Cross-Fertilization of Distributed Wordnets	p. 146
MCD: A Joint Semantic Project on East Asian Languages	p. 159
Tools for Intercultural Collaboration
Designing an Aural Comprehension Aid for Interlingual Communication	p. 170
Parallel-Text Based Support System for Intercultural Communication at Medical Receptions	p. 182
Design and Development of a Pictogram Communication System for Children Around the World	p. 193
Emotions in Intercultural Collaboration
Cross-Cultural Study of Avatars' Facial Expressions and Design Considerations Within Asian Countries	p. 207
Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval	p. 221
Emotion Eliciting Events in the Workplace: An Intercultural Comparison	p. 236
Analysis of Intercultural Collaboration
Intra- and Inter-cultural Collaboration in Science and Engineering	p. 249
Culture and Computers: A Review of the Concept of Culture and Implications for Intercultural Collaborative Online Learning	p. 260
Adoption of Translation Support Technologies in a Multilingual Work Environment	p. 276
Bayesian Belief Network Approach for Analysis of Intercultural Collaboration in Virtual Communities Using Social Capital Theory	p. 291
Social Conventions and Issues of Space for Distributed Collaboration	p. 306
Board-Based Collaboration in Cross-Cultural Pairs	p. 321
Actual Fields of Intercultural Collaboration
Atoms of Bonding: Communication Components Bridging Children Worldwide (Invited Talk)	p. 335
Teaching HCI: A Challenging Intercultural, Interdisciplinary, Cross-Field Experience	p. 344
Inclusive Design Workshop by Regional Cooperation Between an NPO and a University	p. 355
How Intercultural Disaster Reduction Education Change Students: A Case Study of an Evening Course Senior High School in Hyogo, Japan	p. 368
Intercultural Collaboration: Instrumentality of the GLOBE Study	p. 382
Author Index	p. 395
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