Language Grid
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The Language Grid is a multilingual service platform on the Internet, developed by Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. It enables easy registration and sharing of language resources such as online dictionaries, bilingual corpora, and machine translations. The development of the Language Grid was started in April 2006, led by Professor Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics of Kyoto University.
Concept
The Language Grid is developed to increase the accessibility and usability of language resources. It takes the service-oriented approach by wrapping existing language resources as atomic Web services and enables users to compose new services by combining atomic Web services.
Architecture
The Language Grid consists of four service layers: P2P Grid Layer, Atomic Service Layer, Composite Service Layer and Application System Layer.[1]
Software
Language Grid related software includes the Service Grid Server Software,[2] Language Services,[3] and Language Grid Toolbox.[4] The development of Language Grid related software is managed by the open source software project from April 2010.
Operation
The Department of Social Informatics of Kyoto University started single operation of the Language Grid in December 2007 for non-profit purpose and research purpose, which is named as Language Grid Kyoto Operation Center.[5] In May 2017, the operation of Kyoto Language Grid was moved from Kyoto University to NPO Language Grid Association. As of May 2018, 183 groups in 24 countries and regions had joined the Kyoto Language Grid.
In January 2011, the second operation center for Language Grid was started by the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center of Thailand, which is called Language Grid Bangkok Operation Center. Later, Language Grid Jakarta Operation Center in Indonesia and Language Grid Xinjiang Operation in China were started in 2012 and 2014 respectively. The four operation centers are connected with each other to realized the federated operation of the Language Grid, which enables sharing of language services among multiple Language Grids.
As of May 2018, 226 services are shared in the Federated Language Grid.
Researches
Researches of developing and using the Language Grid are involved in several areas and communities. Academic papers related to Language Grid have been published in some major international conferences in the areas of artificial intelligence, services computing and computer supported cooperative work.
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Activities
By using the language services in different ways based on the Language Grid, activities have been conducted by different communities. In 2006, Language Grid Association was formed among industry, government, academia, and citizens to advance the technologies and applications of the Language Grid.
References
- ^ Language Grid Service Layer http://langrid.org/file/TheLanguageGrid-en.pdf
- ^ Service Grid Server Software https://sourceforge.net/projects/servicegrid/
- ^ Language Services http://langrid.org/oss-project/en/language_service.html
- ^ Language Grid Toolbox http://langrid.org/oss-project/en/toolbox.html
- ^ Language Grid Kyoto Operation Center http://langrid.org/operation/en/index.html