Intercultural Collaboration: First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers [1 ed.]
3540739998, 9783540739999
This book presents 29 revised invited and selected lectures given by top-researchers at the First International Workshop
Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages - Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid....Pages 1-16 Towards a Conceptual Core for Multicultural Processing: A Multilingual Ontology Based on the Swadesh List....Pages 17-30 Conceptual Framework of an Upper Ontology for Describing Linguistic Services....Pages 31-45 Formal Ontology of ‘Cultures’ and ‘Ethnic Groups’ Based on Type Theory and Functional Programming....Pages 46-60 Capturing a Conceptual Model for Intercultural Collaboration in Copyright Management (A Domain Ontology of International Copyright Laws)....Pages 61-75 The Lextype DB: A Web-Based Framework for Supporting Collaborative Multilingual Grammar and Treebank Development....Pages 76-90 Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Resource Development and Intercultural Communication....Pages 91-102 Exploiting Aligned Parallel Corpora in Multilingual Studies and Applications....Pages 103-117 Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid....Pages 118-132 Hanzi Grid....Pages 133-145 Fostering Intercultural Collaboration: A Web Service Architecture for Cross-Fertilization of Distributed Wordnets....Pages 146-158 MCD: A Joint Semantic Project on East Asian Languages....Pages 159-169 Designing an Aural Comprehension Aid for Interlingual Communication....Pages 170-181 Parallel-Text Based Support System for Intercultural Communication at Medical Receptions....Pages 182-192 Design and Development of a Pictogram Communication System for Children Around the World....Pages 193-206 Cross-Cultural Study of Avatars’ Facial Expressions and Design Considerations Within Asian Countries....Pages 207-220 Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval....Pages 221-235 Emotion Eliciting Events in the Workplace: An Intercultural Comparison....Pages 236-248 Intra- and Inter-cultural Collaboration in Science and Engineering....Pages 249-259 Culture and Computers: A Review of the Concept of Culture and Implications for Intercultural Collaborative Online Learning....Pages 260-275 Adoption of Translation Support Technologies in a Multilingual Work Environment....Pages 276-290 Bayesian Belief Network Approach for Analysis of Intercultural Collaboration in Virtual Communities Using Social Capital Theory....Pages 291-305 Social Conventions and Issues of Space for Distributed Collaboration....Pages 306-320 Board-Based Collaboration in Cross-Cultural Pairs....Pages 321-334 Atoms of Bonding: Communication Components Bridging Children Worldwide (Invited Talk)....Pages 335-343 Teaching HCI: A Challenging Intercultural, Interdisciplinary, Cross-Field Experience....Pages 344-354 Inclusive Design Workshop by Regional Cooperation Between an NPO and a University....Pages 355-367 How Intercultural Disaster Reduction Education Change Students: A Case Study of an Evening Course Senior High School in Hyogo, Japan....Pages 368-381 Intercultural Collaboration: Instrumentality of the GLOBE Study....Pages 382-393 Back Matter....Pages -