Melayu Grid: Sharing Language Service to Bridge Cultural Difference

Abstract

Today grid computing powered by web service technology has been a research interest for decades. Several grids of language services are available in Internet as part of daily activity. Melayu Grid is proposed to share Indonesian, Malay and regional language resources. To ease the sharing, each language is located as a distinctive concept in language service ontology and eventually measured its semantic closeness to other languages. By utilizing semantic closeness, it is expected that the endangered language resource that has less amount of its speaker can take advantage by replacing it with other language resource that has better resources and speakers. This project implements service grid architecture as a culture grid for Indonesia and Malaysia to balance cultural differences and conflicts in these two neighboring countries. Multicriteria optimization is utilized to adapt the multi culture feature of several language services. It substitutes several regional languages services that are coming from the same language families or having similar linguistic vocabularies, syntax, morphology and semantics.