PRACTICES FOR DIGITAL ASIA: MACHINE TRANSLATION MEDIATED INTERACTIVITY IN MULTILINGUAL COLLABORATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

摘要

This paper introduces two experiments practicing for digital Asia, the technical Intercultural Collaboration Experiment and the non-technical China-Japan-Korea Virtual Community Experiment. By analyzing the two experiments, we found that, it is possible to use machine translation technologies to make the effective communication among people in Asian countries. The analysis also shows that human interferences and adaptations to machine translation is a solution to break the language barriers in multilingual collaboration and intercultural communication.