A Framework for Multi-Language Service Design with the Language Grid

A Framework for Multi-Language Service Design with the Language Grid Donghui Lin†, Yohei Murakami∗, and Toru Ishida† †Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan {lindh,ishida}@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp ∗Unit of Design, Kyoto University, 91 Chudoji Awata-cho, Shimogyo, Kyoto 600-8815, Japan yohei@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Abstract To collect and share language resources like machine translators and dictionaries, we developed the Language Grid in 2006, a service- oriented language infrastructure on the Internet. Although we have put a lot of effort into improving the service grid technologies and collecting language services, international NPO/NGOs are struggling with the design and development of tools and systems for supporting multi-language communication in the real world by utilizing available language services. This paper proposes a framework for service design with the Language Grid by bridging the gap between language service infrastructures and multi-language systems. The proposed framework is implemented as a toolkit, Multilingual Studio, which is open to allow the users to design and develop multilingual communication services and tools in the real world. Keywords: language service infrastructure, service design, multi-language systems 1. Introduction The Language Grid, a service-oriented language service infrastructure on the Internet, enables the sharing of var- ious language resources as language services around the world (Ishida, 2011). We started the research and develop- ment of the Language Grid in 2006, focusing on the tech- nologies of service grid server software and mechanisms permitting its federated operation among multiple organiza- tions (Murakami et al., 2012) (Murakami et al., 2014). The Language Grid has been widely used as a platform for the research of services computing (Lin et al., 2012), language resources (Lin et al., 2010), and human-computer interac- tion (Murakami et al., 2018). During the past several years, the importance of lan- guage service infrastructures has been widely recog- nized by the research community of language re- sources. Typical examples of other language service ini- tiatives include U-Compare (Kano et al., 2009), META- SHARE (Piperidis, 2012), PANACEA (Toral et al., 2011), DKPro (Eckart de Castilho and Gurevych, 2014), and the LAPPS Grid (Ide et al., 2014). Most of the work focus on the interoperability of language resources. Unfortunately, international NPO/NGOs still find it difficult to design and develop systems for supporting multi-language communi- cation due to the complicated situations in the real world and the difficulties of customizing language resources to meet users’ requirements. Different types of users and developers have differ- ent requirements regarding language service infrastruc- tures. To support language service developers, we have provided a series of standardized interfaces of atomic language services and composite language services with various Web service specifications in the Language Grid (Murakami et al., 2011). For end users of the Lan- guage Grid, we have developed several tools for trying out various language resources through a web browser and customizing multilingual communication components as well (Sakai et al., 2009) (Tanaka et al., 2010). To sup- port application developers, this paper aims at providing a framework that deals with the gap between language ser- vice infrastructures and multi-language …

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