Access to recorded interviews: A research agenda

Recorded interviews form a rich basis for scholarly inquiry. Examples include oral histories, community memory projects, and interviews conducted for broadcast media. Emerging technologies offer the potential to radically transform the way in which recorded interviews are made accessible, but this vision will demand substantial investments from a broad range of research communities. This article reviews the present state of practice for making recorded interviews available and the state-of-the-art for key component technologies. A large number of important research issues are identified, and from that set of issues, a coherent research agenda is proposed

A Review of Verbal and Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactive Communication

In this paper, an overview of human-robot interactive communication is presented, covering verbal as well as non-verbal aspects of human-robot interaction. Following a historical introduction, and motivation towards fluid human-robot communication, ten desiderata are proposed, which provide an organizational axis both of recent as well as of future research on human-robot communication. Then, the ten desiderata are examined in detail, culminating to a unifying discussion, and a forward-looking conclusion

Found in Translation: International Residents’ Use of Setagaya Ward’s Online Multilingual Information

The importance of e-governance in Japan has grown parallel with the need for municipalities to provide multilingual services and translation for newcomer immigrants. Few studies have examined the content of official translated online materials in the context of immigrants’ actual experiences using such materials. The present study seeks to discover how international residents of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo access and navigate the foreign language information on the ward’s official website, in particular looking at issues of comprehension of both human and machine-translated content. Results of a survey of self-selected respondents (n＝52) indicate that such content is viewed as important and useful by international residents, though difficulties in locating and comprehending needed information were common. Implications of these results for official translation policy are considered in the context of notions of domestic internationalization and multicultural coexistence

The Content Manager: A tool to develop multilingual and multi-prefernce web sites

In this experience paper we outline our experience in developing a multilingual and multiple preference web site. In particular we describe Content Manager, a tool we developed to support the implementation of a business to consumer (B2C) international web site. We also describe the business requirements and challenges that we encountered. There are many commercial tools for managing a web site’s content, but these tools are unable to manage the complexity of diverse languages taxation frameworks, and cultural systems. We found that by separating the content from the source code (as supposed to embedding text within the web page), we were able to focus on the development of the web site instead of worrying about the differences between target countries. Content Manager allowed us to maintain this separation and eased the development process

Challenges in Bridging Social Semantics and Formal Semantics on the Web

This paper describes several results of Wimmics, a research lab which names stands for: web-instrumented man-machine interactions, communities, and semantics. The approaches introduced here rely on graph-oriented knowledge representation, reasoning and operationalization to model and support actors, actions and interactions in web-based epistemic communities. The re-search results are applied to support and foster interactions in online communities and manage their resources

Towards a generation-based semantic web authoring tool

Widespread use of Semantic Web technologies requires interfaces through which knowledge can be viewed and edited without deep understanding of Description Logic and formalisms like OWL and RDF. Several groups are pursuing approaches based on Controlled Natural Languages (CNLs), so that editing can be performed by typing in sentences which are automatically interpreted as statements in OWL. We suggest here a variant of this approach which relies entirely on Natural Language Generation (NLG), and propose requirements for a system that can reliably generate transparent realisations of statements in Description Logic