Asian language processing presents formidable challenges to achieving multilingualism and multiculturalism in our society. One of the first and most obvious challenges is the multitude and diversity of languages: more than 2,000 languages are listed as languages in Asia by Ethnologue (Gordon 2005), representing four major language families: Austronesian, Trans-New Guinea, Indo-European, and Sino-Tibetan. 1The challenge is made more formidable by the fact that as a whole, Asian languages range from the language with most speakers in the world (Mandarin Chinese, close to 900 million native speakers) to the more than 70 nearly extinct languages (e.g. Pazeh in Taiwan, one speaker). As a result, there are vast differences in the level of language processing capability and the number of sharable resources available for individual languages. Major Asian languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Thai have benefited...