Web-enhanced higher education: a tower of Babel

English Reading Wizard: Mining and Ranking Translations Using Bilingual Data on the Web

The traditional problem that exists from the time of Tower of Babel becomes more serious in the internet era. That is how we read and write foreign languages. Figure 1 shows an estimate of the distribution of languages on the web. We see that about three fourths of the web pages are in English and non-English speakers have needs to read the documents. On the other hand, for English speakers rou...

Transcending the Tower of Babel:

With the advent of location-independent access to massive collections of searchable content on the World Wide Web and the convergence of text, images, audio and video in multimedia computing environments, we have come a long way towards seamless access to the information needed for commerce, security, and society. Language, however, has the potential to balkanize the information space. This cha...

Building the Tower of Babel : Converting

UMRR: Towards an Enterprise-Wide Web of Models

Metadata that describes the structure and semantics of data sources takes a significant role in enterprise information integration. Enterprise information integration always involves an increasing set of types of metadata that are dispersed in various repositories, modeled by various tools, represented in various formats. There is a crucial requirement to break the “Tower of Babel” among differ...

DB-IS Research for Semantic Web and Enterprises Brief History and Agenda

In this position paper I describe the relationship of the database research field “semi-structured data” to the Semantic Web, and describe two different yet unsolved problems. The first problem is the handling of the semantics of modeling languages like UML, TopicMops or RDF Schema within query and storage infrastructures for semi-structured data. A system is required which enables to query sem...