《A Model based trandormation paradigm for cross-lg collaborations》.pdf

Advanced Engineering Informatics 27 (2013) 27–37 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Advanced Engineering Informatics journal homepage: /locate/aei A model based transformation paradigm for cross-language collaborations Kunmei Wen a,⇑, Suo Tan b, Jie Wang a, Ruixuan Li a, Yuan Gao a a School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China b Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada H3G 1W8 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Online collaboration is a big challenge in the field of international product development in a cross- Received 8 March 2012 language environment. It serves two purposes: cross-language translation and design requirement clar- Received in revised form 11 October 2012 ification. Though many approaches and tools are developed for each of the purposes, not a solution serves Accepted 22 October 2012 both of them well. Especially, the traditional statistical methods for cross-language translation cannot Available online 16 November 2012 preserve the whole semantic information, which intend to incur misunderstanding and ineffective collab- oration. This results in potential problems in clarifying the design requirements. In this paper, we pro- Keywords: posed a method to online collaboration, named Cross-Language