The Language Grid is a multilingual service platform on the Internet mainly for supporting intercultural collaboration.
It enables easy registration and sharing of language resources such as online dictionaries, bilingual corpora, and machine translations.
Researches of developing and using the Language Grid cover several areas including artificial intelligence, services computing and human-computer interaction.
The multilingual medical communication support system was developed by Wakayama University in cooperation with Kyoto Center for Multicultural Society.
The support system helps communication between foreign outpatients and medical staff at hospital reception desks.
NPO Pangaea and universities in Japan and Vietnam worked on an agricultural support project with two major goals: low rice productivity and the environmental burdens caused by the excessive use of agrichemicals.
The goal was to provide timely and appropriate agriculture knowledge in rice harvesting to Vietnamese farmers by Japanese experts.
Since Japanese experts cannot physically travel to all rural areas, they were highly motivated to use the Language Grid.
The youth-mediated communication (YMC) model was invented, where children act as mediators and bridge the gaps in language, knowledge and cultures between experts and farmers.