Composing and Supervising Language Services on the Internet

Services computing, which is a new paradigm for constructing software based on services, is now one of the hottest topics both in research community and in business. Services computing allows us to reduce the initial cost of software development and increase the reusability of the components. Services computing can also realize the collective intelligence on the Web. We can coordinate language resources such as dictionaries, parallel texts and machine translators by wrapping them as Web services. We refer to the Web services which wrap language resources as language services. Coordinating the language services based on services computing technologies makes it easier to develop support tools for various fields of intercultural collaboration. However, we still have a problem with coordinating the language services. • There are a lot of dictionaries and parallel texts available on the Web. But we need to extract machine-readable contents from them to wrap them as language services because they are usually designed for humans. The extraction costs a lot because it requires us to manually edit the contents. This prevents people in the community of each field of intercultural collaboration from publishing their language resource as a language services. • Language services which different organizations provide in open environment are not designed to be used together. This is be-