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

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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
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Intercultural Collaboration: First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers [1 ed.]
 3540739998, 9783540739999

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