Multilingual Virtual City Guides

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

Live Demonstration of the Pervasive Game "GPS Joker"

From the virtual to the real, everybody is looking for the Joker... your mobile phone guides you through the city. Be the first one to win the Joker. Enter the game and play your session here in Paris!

The Role of Virtual Re-creating in the Protection of Historical Monuments in the Case Study of Mosaic-Iwan in the City of Bishapur

Any historical monument may have lost some fragments due to various factors. The extent of defects, whether in quantity or quality, directly relates to the loss of identity and integrity of the building, and reduces the accuracy of its physical or virtual reconstruction. On the other hand, a lack of understanding of the complete form of a building affects the degree of justification for its con...

Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval

The Dublin City University group participated in the monolingual, bilingual and multilingual retrieval tasks this year. The main focus of our investigation this year was extending our retrieval system to document languages other than English, and completing the multilingual task comprising four languages: English, French, Russian and Finnish. Results from our French monolingual experiments indi...

Standards for Communication and e-Learning in Virtual Worlds - The Multilingual-assisted Chat Interface

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 communi...