Describing The Technologies To Combine Language Resources Flexibly As Web Services, This Book Provides Valuable Case Studies For Those Who Work In Services Computing, Language Resources, Human-computer Interaction (hci), Computer-supported Cooperative Work (cscw), And Service Science. The Authors Have Been Operating The Language Grid, Which Wraps Existing Language Resources As Atomic Language Services And Enables Users To Compose New Services By Combining Them. From Architecture Level To Service Composition Level, The Book Explains How To Resolve Infrastructural And Operational Difficulties In Sharing And Combining Language Resources, Including Interoperability Of Language Service Infrastructures, Various Types Of Language Service Policies, Human Services, And Service Failures.the Research Based On The Authors' Operating Experiences Of Handling Complicated Issues Such As Intellectual Property And Interoperability Of Language Resources Contributes To Exploitation Of Language Resources As A Service.