Title :
Can Computers Help Us to Better Understand Different Cultures? Toward a Computer-Based CULINT
Author :
Livshits, Danny ; Howard, Newton ; Neuman, Yair
Author_Institution :
Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Abstract :
Identifying cultural discrepancies in worldviews is of high priority to Cultural Intelligence (CULINT). This paper presents a CULINT computer-based methodology for increasing cultural awareness. By automatically identifying themes/motifs in textual data and using machine translation, we expose cultural discrepancies in cultural understanding. This novel methodology is empirically tested through the analysis of 30 speeches and illustrated through an in-depth analysis of a case-study.
Keywords :
cultural aspects; language translation; psychology; text analysis; computer-based CULINT; cultural awareness; cultural discrepancies; cultural intelligence; cultural understanding; machine translation; textual data; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Humans; Psychology; Security; Semantics; Speech; CULINT; information; interdisciplinary; research; technology;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), 2012 European
Conference_Location :
Odense
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2358-1
DOI :
10.1109/EISIC.2012.46
