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SIG-AI and SIG-IC Joint Workshop "Language Grid and Intercultural Collaboration", The Instuitue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

Organized by

SIG-AI and SIG-IC, The Instuitue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)


Chair

Takashi YOSHINO, Wakayama University


Organizing Committee

Yasuhiko KITAMURA, Kwansei Gakuin University
Shigeo MATSUBARA, Kyoto University
Yasuhiro KATAGIRI, Future University HAKODATE
Takashi YOSHINO, Wakayama University
Naomi YAMASHITA, NTT


Content

By the spread of the Internet, intercultural collaboration on a global mass scale is becoming possible. However, the difference of the languages interrupts our free communication and makes the collaboration more difficult. The Language Grid is an attempt to solve this problem using machine translation and information communication technologies, and it provides an information platform which enables to develop various machine translation systems and applications combining language services on the Internet (language resources such as parallel translation dictionaries or language processing functions such as machine translators). This workshop offers a forum to discuss research issues concerning the Language Grid and intercultural collaboration.

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Kyoto Buddhist Culture Forum

Organized by

Kyoto Buddhist Culture Forum


Chair

Fumio FUKUI
Kyoto Buddhist Culture Forum, Specified Nonprofit Organization (in preparation)


Organizing Committee

Fumio FUKUI, Kyoto Buddhist Culture Forum, Specified Nonprofit
Organization (in preparation)
Eriko SATAKE, Reverend, Bukko-ji temple, Kyoto
Koichi MAEDA, Optimistic Revenge LLP
Nobuyoshi KAWASAKI, Kyoto University
Takayuki KIMURA, C-design Corporation
Reiko HISHIYAMA, Waseda University


Content

In Kyoto as a center of religious-based culture, there is a huge variety of religious architecture, and people have cultivated a fascinating religious culture in their daily life over a long period of time. The number of visitors (50 million per year) and foreign lodgers (1 million per year) indicate the value of the city as a leading center of international tourism. However, as today we tend to focus only on the visual aspect - appearance of temples, shrines and so on, we have not been able to fully explore the city's great potential for spiritual worth.

In this event, we will seek to redefine the value of the religous city Kyoto in the context of the latest computing technology, which has the capacity to connect people, facilitate their communication and make their interactions fulfilling. Using a technique called "information design", we will reevaluate Kyoto from a current point of view and understand its possibilities not only as a sightseeing city but as a center for the aspects such as lifestyle, societal problem solving, promotion of industry that will shape the next generation. We will design an image of the future Kyoto as the "city of prayer for social peace." In Japanese cities, the aging population and increasing ratio of unmarried adults has changed human relationships and given birth to expressions like "society without bonds" and "country of orphans". In this context a new structure of relationships between poeple and with their surroundings is needed.

It seems there is something, (not just safety and ease of mind) that calls for another look at the "individualism" that this generation has created. We will also consider how technologies in computing will define the relationships between such concepts as "a society that cares for its people" and "spiritual contentment and fulfillment", which, up to now, have been defined in only abstract terms.

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"Towards Communication Support in Intercultural Collaboration Sites", Center for Multicultural Information and Assistance Kyoto

Organized by

Center for Multicultural Information and Assistance Kyoto, Specified Nonprofit Organization


Chair

Aguri SHIGENO
Center for Multicultural Information and Assistance Kyoto, Specified Nonprofit Organization


Organizing Committee

Aguri SHIGENO, Center for Multicultural Information and Assistance Kyoto, Specified Nonprofit Organization
Takashi YOSHINO, Wakayama University


Content

With the global expansion of Internet, it becomes possible for people with different cultures and languages to communication with each. Meanwhile, various types of language services and systems are developed to overcome the language barriers for supporting such kind of communication. Those technologies and systems are being used in intercultural collaboration sites like medical care fields and tourism fields. In this event, we discuss the researches and applications of communication support in the medical care fields and tourism fields, and the collaboration of field sites and researchers during the process of system development.

Sessions
*Systems for supporting multilingual communication
*Collaboration of field sites and researchers

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Cross-Media Haiku Research Forum Workshop on "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Haiku"

Organized by

Cross-Media Haiku Research Forum


Chair

Masami SUZUKI, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.


Organizing Committee

Masami SUZUKI, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
Nobuhiko TAKADA, Kanazawa Gakuin University
Naohiro MINAGAWA, Naruto University of Education
Ryoei YOSHIOKA, National Institute for Educational Policy Research


Content

Haiku is known as the world's smallest short poem consisting of seventeen characters (5-7-5), though its root was the Hokku of Haikai in Edo period. Like as one of the characteristics of Japanese culture, Haiku does not explain all the feelings of an author in short expression, but only convey the clues to sympathy extracted by readers. Such a mechanism of sharing deep emotion could say almost like a forerunner of Twitter today as well as Senryu. So far, being practiced in various languages of a lot of countries, Haiku has aspects of a global expansion into the 21st century with a fusion caused by Internet culture. >From the viewpoint of computing, including the association between season word (kigo) in combination with other words, tacit knowledge related to the origin of the imagination or creativity may be gradually revealed as explicit knowledge, through an approach using vocabulary analysis and so on. On the other hand, for the people who make haiku anytime and anywhere with carrying a mobile device, it would be a potential and interesting theme to give learning support to provide relevant knowledge like as past haiku or related episodes derived from current spatial and temporal position. Though the topics are not limited to the above aspects, this forum will offer an opportunity of interdisciplinary exchange of various views about haiku and computing.

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Interdisciplinary research on food: cooking, eating, and serving

Chair

Yukata Yamauchi, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University


Organizing Committee

Katsumi Tanaka, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto Univeresity
Yoshinori Hara, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
Yukata Yamauchi, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
Yoshinori Yamakawa, NTT DATA


Content

Despite the fact that "food" occupies a large portion of our daily lives, it has not received sufficient attention as an academic discipline, except for nutrition science and agriculture. Some researchers in computer science, management, economics and psychology have recently started looking at food as a research theme. In computer science, research has been done on trustworthiness of information regarding food and cooking and technologies for supporting cooking. In management, recent emphasis on "services" directs attention to food related services, in particular traditional services in Sushi, Ryotei and Kappo. In this workshop, a series of research from various disciplines will be reported and discussed.

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Reception (Tea, "Matcha" Ceremony)

Organized by

Rakusei Young Division, West Kyoto Branch Office,
Chado Urasenke Tankokai, Incorporated Nonprofit Organization

Chair

Makoto IMAI
Rakusei Young Division, West Kyoto Branch Office,
Chado Urasenke Tankokai, Incorporated Nonprofit Organization

Coordinator

Ryoko TABATA (Kyoto University)
Yoko KUBOTA (Kyoto University)

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