Authors:
Samuel Cruz-Lara
;
Tarik Osswald
;
Jordan Guinaud
;
Nadia Bellalem
and
Lotfi Bellalem
Affiliation:
LORIA / INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France
Keyword(s):
Multilinguality, MLIF, Chat interface, Web services, Communication, e-Learning, Automatic translation, Virtual worlds.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
e-Business
;
Education/Learning
;
e-Learning
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent User Interfaces
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Virtual Environment, Virtual and Augmented Reality
;
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Abstract:
Many of today’s applications embed textual chat interfaces or work with multilingual textual information. The Multilingual Information Framework (MLIF) [ISO DIS 24616] is being designed in order to fulfill the multilingual needs of today’s applications. Within our research activity for the MLIF standard, we developed the Multilingual-Assisted Chat Interface, which intends to help people communicate in virtual worlds with others who do not speak the same language and to offer new possibilities for learning foreign languages. By developing this application, we also wanted to show the advantages of using web services for externalizing computation: we used the same web service for two virtual worlds: Second Life and Solipsis.
In this paper, we first propose a short analysis of social interactions and language learning in virtual worlds. Then, we describe in a technical way the features, architecture and development indications for the Multilingual-Assisted Chat Interface.