Dormant SIGs

Fujimi Junior High School Support Team

The goal of Fujimi Junior High School Support Team is to provide foreign students attending Fujimi Junior High School customized multilingual communication support using the Language Grid.

Many foreign students at Fujimi Junior High School do not speak fluent Japanese, and they are in need of multilingual communication support. To help these students, the school offers Japanese classes to these foreign students. The Fujimi Junior High School Support Team aims to help these students with everyday communication and learning by providing multilingual communication applications tailored to their needs. As a result, the Fujimi Junior High School Support Team has developed a multilingual chat system customized to Fujimi Junior High School on the Language Grid Playground. The multilingual chat system assists communication between foreign students and teachers, foreign students and Japanese students, foreign students and foreign students, and teachers and foreign student's parents.

Based on the real-world usages and findings obtained from the Fujimi Junior High School's case, the Team aims to design and build specialized tools tailored to school environment in the future.

SIG (Special Interest Group)

Members

Members	Toru Ishida (adviser) (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Chigusa Kita (Kita Lab. Faculty of Infomratics, Kansai University)
	Satoshi Sakai (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Masaki Gotou (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Daisuke Morita (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Heeryon Cho (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Tomohiro Shigenobu (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Supporting Member	Reiko Hishiyama (adviser) (Hishiymama Lab. Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)

Language Resource Wrapping Project

Overview of our activity | How to join us | Documents

Overview of our activity

This volunteer project aims to develop wrappers that wrap language resources and language processing functions available on the Internet into web services that implement language grid standard interfaces.

Currently, language resources (e.g., dictionaries and parallel texts) or language processing functions (e.g., machine translations and morphological analysis) have been developed individually. By wrapping them into web services that implement the language grid interface those services will be available on a language grid and users can combine them to create new language services suitable for their own activities.

To collect know-how on wrapping, our project members are currently developing libraries and templates needed for wrapping, and also edited wrapping manuals. In the future, we will develop a wrapping-supporting environment to further assist people using the integrated set of these libraries and templates. Furthermore, we are considering a system that allows volunteers to publish their wrappers on a shared web service server.

Our project is planning to release the list of the language resources and language processing functions for which we are authorized to act as the licenser's agent. We also plan to raise the profile of wrapping and accelerate our program for recruiting volunteers. We have set an immediate goal of wrapping 100 resources by the end of this fiscal year.

As mentioned earlier, we are developing an environment that will allow volunteers to concentrate on wrapping thus making language resources and language processing functions into web services. We will also promote the growth of the language grid.

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How to join us

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in workflows.
If you'd like to join our activity, please contact "contact at wrapping.langrid.org".

Our main activities are as follows: (preferable skills)

- Searching language resources on the Internet (English reading)

- Implementing wrappers (Java programming)

- wrinting documents (English reading/writing)

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Documents

The up-to-date manual that are applicable for general wrapping activity is now available on the Language Grid Developers' Wiki. (Currently, only Japanese manual is available, but English version will be provided in the future. Stay tuned.).

SIG (Special Interest Group)

Members

Leader	Masaki Gotou (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Member	Yoshiyasu Ikeda (Kitamura Laboratory, Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
	Tsuyoshi Iwasaki (Multi-Agents Lab. Department of Informatics, School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University)
	Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kitamura Laboratory, Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
	Shinji Saitou (Multi-Agents Lab. Department of Informatics, School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University)
	Satoshi Sakai (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Takuto Takemiya (Semantic Communication Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Science, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)
	Hiroki Tanaka (Multi-Agents Lab. Department of Informatics, School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University)
	Hiroaki Tabuchi (Kitamura Laboratory, Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
	Yoshihiko Hayashi (Language and Information Science, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University)
	Arif Bramantoro (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Yusuke Masuda (Kitamura Laboratory, Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
	Yuuki Miyake (Multi-Agents Lab. Department of Informatics, School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University)
	Yohei Murakami (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
	Daisuke Morita (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Supporting Member	Hayato Sagawa (adviser)
	Naoki Kishimoto (volunteer) (Trident College of Information Technology)
	Yoshiki Tsuchiimoto (volunteer) (Undergraduate Department of Informatics and Mathematical Science, Kyoto University)

Web Service Workflow Lab.

Overview of our activity | Activities | Join us

Overview of our activity

Web Service Workflow Lab. provides workflows composed of Web services required for the Language Grid Project. Members of the laboratory are mainly researchers and graduate students who have expertise on techniques of Web services and workflows.

Workflows on the Language Grid are composed of Web services, such as dictionaries and morphological analyzers provided by the Language Resource Wrapping Project, and these workflows have complicated functionalities for applications. For example, a workflow for translating technical documents is composed of translation engines, morphological analyzers and technical term dictionaries that translate technical terms.

In the Language Grid Project, workflows are described in WS-BPEL. The workflows are interpreted and executed by the WS-BPEL engine embedded in the Language Grid infrastructure.

We are currently applying our experience of the use of workflows to the following research issues: applying semantic Web technologies to the composition of workflows, and the discovery/reuse of patterns of Web service composition.

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Activities

Our main activities are as follows:

Producing workflows for Language Grid

We have produced a wide variety of workflows used by applications developed in Language Grid Project.

Tutorial on creating workflow

We have given tutorials on workflows in BPEL. The tutorials enable participants to easily understand how to describe workflows by focusing on composition of language services.

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Join us

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in workflows. If you'd like to join our activity, please contact "contact at workflow.langrid.org".

SIG (Special Interest Group)

Members

Leader	Masahiro Tanaka (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Member	Toru Ishida (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Satoshi Sakai (Ishida and Matsubara Lab. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
	Yohei Murakami (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
	Lin Donghui (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Supporting Member	Hayato Sagawa (adviser)