Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Resource Development and Intercultural Communication

The Internet has already connected people and established a mature online community. The use of WWW is also in the main stream of disseminating one’s information and services. In the present information borderless society, we still need a lot of fundamental tools as well as the standard reference resources to facilitate our daily communications across the languages and cultures for better understanding or smoothing the communications. To develop such fundamental linguistic tools, we need to put efforts in cross language study and multilingual resource development. Online collaborative works are efficiently conducted among expert groups via many existing services such as Sourceforge, Wiki or Weblog. Each has already gained its user potential in several online communities. However, in the process of multilingual resource development and intercultural communication we still need to fulfill the requirements in well-structured design of the database, communication tools that provide neces...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IWIC
• Authors: Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Kergrit Robkop, Hitoshi Isahara
• Keywords: Fundamental Linguistic Tools, Information Management, IWIC 2007, Multilingual Resource Development, Online Community