Linguistic and multilingual issues in virtual worlds and serious games: a general review

Authors

  • Samuel Cruz-Lara LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine
  • Alexandre Denis LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine
  • Nadia Bellalem LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v7i1.7084

Keywords:

virtual worlds, serious games, linguistics, multilinguality, standardization, e-learning, language learning, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, emotion detection

Abstract

Within a globalized world, the need for linguistic support is increasing every day. Linguistic information, and in particular multilingual textual information, plays a significant role for describing digital content: information describing pictures or video sequences, general information presented to the user graphically or via a text-to-speech processor, menus in interactive multimedia or TV, subtitles, dialogue prompts, or implicit data appearing on an image such as captions, or tags. It is obviously crucial to associate digital content to multilingual textual information in a non-intrusive way: the user must decide, whether or not, he wants to display the textual information related to the digital content he is dealing with in any particular language.

In this paper we will present a general review on linguistic and multilingual issues related to virtual worlds and serious games. The expression

Author Biographies

Samuel Cruz-Lara, LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine

PhD & Associate Professor. University of Lorraine Nancy-Charlemagne Institute of Technology. Computer Science Department.

Alexandre Denis, LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine

PhD & Software Development and Research Engineer. LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine.

Nadia Bellalem, LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine

PhD & Associate Professor. University of Lorraine Nancy-Charlemagne Institute of Technology. Computer Science Department.

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Published

2014-01-24

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Peer Reviewed Research Papers