Development of cross-cultural communication tool for Japanese UN volunteers

Authors:
Yoshiyasu Ikeda;Yasuhiko Kitamura
Affiliations:
Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan;Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Kwansei Gakuin University has been sending United Nations volunteers to developing countries for helping to bridge the digital divide between industrialized and developing countries. However, the volunteers have problems communicating with local staff. Because the Internet environment in developing countries is poor, machine translation services do not work well. We are developing a cross-cultural communication tool, which runs offline, stores phrase examples in a database, and provides an interface to search and browse them.