Intercultural Collaboration
First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers
Published on 21. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 398 pages
978-3-540-73999-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents 29 revised invited and selected lectures given by top-researchers at the First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan. This state-of-the-art survey increases mutual understanding in our multicultural world by featuring collaboration support, social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies from field workers.
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Series
Edition
2007 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 398 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-73999-9 (9783540739999)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Ontology for Language Resources and Services.- Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid.- Towards a Conceptual Core for Multicultural Processing: A Multilingual Ontology Based on the Swadesh List.- Conceptual Framework of an Upper Ontology for Describing Linguistic Services.- Formal Ontology of 'Cultures' and 'Ethnic Groups' Based on Type Theory and Functional Programming.- Capturing a Conceptual Model for Intercultural Collaboration in Copyright Management (A Domain Ontology of International Copyright Laws).- Developing Language Resources and Services.- The Lextype DB: A Web-Based Framework for Supporting Collaborative Multilingual Grammar and Treebank Development.- Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Resource Development and Intercultural Communication.- Exploiting Aligned Parallel Corpora in Multilingual Studies and Applications.- Connecting Language Resources and Services.- Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid.- Hanzi Grid.- Fostering Intercultural Collaboration: A Web Service Architecture for Cross-Fertilization of Distributed Wordnets.- MCD: A Joint Semantic Project on East Asian Languages.- Tools for Intercultural Collaboration.- Designing an Aural Comprehension Aid for Interlingual Communication.- Parallel-Text Based Support System for Intercultural Communication at Medical Receptions.- Design and Development of a Pictogram Communication System for Children Around the World.- Emotions in Intercultural Collaboration.- Cross-Cultural Study of Avatars' Facial Expressions and Design Considerations Within Asian Countries.- Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval.- Emotion Eliciting Events in the Workplace: An Intercultural Comparison.- Analysis of Intercultural Collaboration.- Intra- and Inter-culturalCollaboration in Science and Engineering.- Culture and Computers: A Review of the Concept of Culture and Implications for Intercultural Collaborative Online Learning.- Adoption of Translation Support Technologies in a Multilingual Work Environment.- Bayesian Belief Network Approach for Analysis of Intercultural Collaboration in Virtual Communities Using Social Capital Theory.- Social Conventions and Issues of Space for Distributed Collaboration.- Board-Based Collaboration in Cross-Cultural Pairs.- Actual Fields of Intercultural Collaboration.- Atoms of Bonding: Communication Components Bridging Children Worldwide (Invited Talk).- Teaching HCI: A Challenging Intercultural, Interdisciplinary, Cross-Field Experience.- Inclusive Design Workshop by Regional Cooperation Between an NPO and a University.- How Intercultural Disaster Reduction Education Change Students: A Case Study of an Evening Course Senior High School in Hyogo, Japan.- Intercultural Collaboration: Instrumentality of the GLOBE Study.