The Language Grid is an infrastructure for enabling users to share language services developed by language specialists and end user communities. Users can also create new services to support their intercultural/multilingual activities by composing various language services. In the Language Grid, there are several stakeholders with different incentives: service users, service providers, and a La...

Ultimately in any natural language production system the largest amount of human effort will go into the construction of the dictionary: the data base that associates objects and relations in the program's domain with the words and phrases that could be used to describe them. This paper describes a technique for basing the dictionary directly on the semantic abstraction network used for the dom...

This paper motivates the need for Semantic Web enabled language technology tools and introduces a set of freely available, customisable components which integrate data about language with Semantic Web data in the form of ontologies. We also argue for a closer integration between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantic Web tools and infrastructures and present an integrated platform for k...

In this paper we examine source code annotations from the viewpoint of formal languages – we discuss their abstract syntax, concrete syntax, and semantics, thus showing the correspondence between annotations and formal languages. We propose to consider a set of all annotations and their parameters processed by the same reference implementation (they belong to the same domain) to be called an an...

A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. To this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

We can learn much from the artifacts produced as the by-products of software development and stored in software repositories. Of all such potential data sources, one of the most important from the perspective of program comprehension is the source code itself. While other data sources give insight into what developers intend a program to do, the source code is the most accurate human-accessible...

Language is a very powerful tool for mutual understanding between people. In the increasingly globalized society we live in, there is great importance and interest in learning languages other than one’s own mother tongue. Computer based teaching tools provide a potent medium through which such demand can be met conveniently. Shikshaka, a computer based teaching framework was developed for teach...

This paper investigates honorific phenomena on two variants of Korean translation corpus, based on translations from Japanese and English. One surprising result is how different the corpora were, even after normalizing orthographic differences. Translations are dependent not just meaning, but also on the structure of the source text.