We present the research and work carried out towards analyzing patterns in creating teaching materials from the Web and how this leads to the model of the multilingual learning resource system using Web service technologies for today's educators, to efficiently share, reuse and translate existing teaching materials into minority languages and make new ones.

In this demonstration video, we introduce the Language Grid Toolbox, an open source multilingual communication tool, and two community sites based on the Language Grid Toolbox. The G30 Community Site aims to create a multilingual and multicultural community to accommodate the needs of Japanese and international students. The Pangaea Community Site is used by facilitators of NPO Pangaea located in different countries around the world to communicate in their native languages through machine translation supported multilingual BBS.

When people communicate in their native languages using machine translation, they face various problems in constructing common ground. This study investigates the difficulties of constructing common ground when multiparty groups (consisting of more than two language communities) communicate using machine translation. We compose triads whose members come from three different language communities--China, Korea, and Japan--and compare their referential communication under two conditions: in their shared second language (English) and in their native languages using machine translation. Consequently, our study suggests the importance of not only grounding between speaker and addressee but also grounding between addressees in constructing effective machine-translation-mediated communication. Furthermore, to successfully build common ground between addressees, it seems important for them to be able to monitor what is going on between a speaker and other addressees.