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The 13th Annual Conference of the Localisation Research Centre ▪
02-03 October 2008 ▪ Marino Institute ▪ Dublin
LRC XIII – The Localisation Research Forum
Localisation4All
Keynote Speakers
Kate Losse, Facebook (USA)
Lori Thicke, Lexcelera (France)
Contributions from
CNGL, Dublin City University, Facebook, Independent Experts, Lexcelera,
Microsoft, Moravia Worldwide, Project ]Open[, Symantec, TEK Translations,
Trinity College Dublin, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, University of Limerick
Reinhard Schäler
Director
University of Limerick
[email protected]
www.localisation.ie
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House Rules – Tips - Requests
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House rules
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Coffee breaks, Lunch, Meeting-up
Tips
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If you need a taxi, please check well in advance with
reception
Local public transport information available at reception
desk
Requests
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No smoking
Please switch off your mobile telephones
Resist the temptation to use your computer
All speakers, please meet ahead of your session at the
“front desk”
We will record the sessions and make them available
on localisation.ie
Agenda
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Main conference programme
Announcement of Awards
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Reception – Meeting-up
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01 Oct 2008: 10:30
The Bank, 20:00
Public transport
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Reception
Airport
LRC Conferences
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2004
2005
2006
2007
Open Source Localisation
The Global Initiative for
Local Computing
The Localisation Factory
The Localisation Research
Forum
Day 1 – Localisation Upate
08:00
Registration & Coffee
09:00
Introduction and Welcome
Session 1: The Localisation Decision
09:10
The Enterprise Localisation Decision, James Grealis, Symantec Corporation
09:50
The Consumer Localisation Decision, Daniel Goldschmidt, Internationalization and localization
expert
10:30
Coffee Break
Session 2: Localisation from Open Standards to Open Source
11:00
Open standards in use in localisation - an engineering approach, Andres Vega, Tek Translations
11:40
The Race for Open Source, Frank Bergmann, Project Open & Tiny Tm
12:20
Lunch
13:20
Product Demonstration - Language Technology Centre
Session 3: Streamlining the Process
13:50
Process Automation at LSPs – It Ain’t Just About the Tools, David Filip, Moravia Worldwide
14:30
Systemic localisation validation across languages, Martin Ørsted, Microsoft Ireland
15:10
Coffee Break
Session 4: In no uncertain terms...
15:40
Checking Terminology Consistency with Statistical Methods, Alfredo Maldonado, Masaki Itagaki,
16:10
Automation of terminology tasks using T-Manager, Rafael Guzmán, Symantec
20:00
Reception - The Bank Bar, College Green
The Localisation Research Centre would like to invite all conference attendees to a casual gathering
in the Bank Bar on College Green at 20:00 on Thursday 02 October. Refreshments will be provided
onsite and this aims to be an excellent opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new
ones. See you there!
Microsoft EDC
Day 2 – Localisation4All
08:00
Registration & Coffee
08:30
Welcome
08:40
Official Opening
Josef van Genabith, Director CNGL
09:00
Keynote1
Facebook - Achieving Quality in a Crowd-sourced Translation Environment, Kate Losse,
Facebook (USA)
10:00
Coffee Break
Session 1: Localisation and Social Networking
Introduced by Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
10:15
Localisation, Personalisation and Social Networking, Vincent Wade (TCD)
10:40
Using community feedback to improve social networking terminology in Microsoft products, Sara
Nicolini, Palle Petersen, Microsoft EDC
11:15
Coffee Break
Session 2: Localisation and Language Technologies
Introduced by Andy Way, Dublin City University (DCU)
11:30
Localisation and Language Technologies, Andy Way (DCU)
11:55
Linguistic Comparison and Analysis of Statistical Post-Editing between Chinese and Japanese,
Midori Tatsumi, Yanli Sun, DCU
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Keynote 2
Unlocking Knowledge - Localisation4All, Lori Thicke, Lexcelera (France)
Session 3: Localisation4All - Introduced by Reinhard Schäler
15:00
The Open Localisation Platform - Reinhard Schäler, LRC
15:25
Sarawak Language Technology (SaLT) Initiative: The preservation of Sarawak Ethnic Languages,
Alvin Yeo, UNIMAS
16:00
Close
Session I
The Localisation Decision
The Enterprise Localisation Decision
James Grealis, Symantec Corporation
The Consumer Localisation Decision
Daniel Goldschmidt, Internationalization and localization expert
The LRC Awards
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The 12th LRC Best Thesis Award
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The 6th LRC Best Scholar Award
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Sponsored by Symantec & CNGL
Sponsored by con[text] & CNGL
The Panel
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Dr Arthur Cater (Senior Lecturer, UCD School
of Computer Science and Informatics)
Mr Tony Jewtushenko (Director- R&D - Product
Innovator Ltd., Ireland)
Dr Fred Hollowood (Director R&D Language
Services, Symantec Corporation)
The Best Thesis Awards
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1997 Pat O’Sullivan (University College Dublin)
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1998 Bróna Collins (Trinity College Dublin)
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1999 Yvonne Cleary (University of Limerick)
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2000 Pat O’Sullivan (University of Limerick)
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2001 Noelia Corte Fernández (City University London, UK)
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2002 John Papaioannou (University of Warwick, UK)
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2003 Francie Gow (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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2004 Huatong Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
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2005 Asgeir Frimannsson (Queensland University of
Technology, Australia)
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2006 Julian Wallis (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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2007 Federico Gaspari (University of Manchester, U.K.)
The 2008 12th Best Thesis Award
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Runner-up
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Data-Driven Machine Translation for
Sign Languages, submitted to the
School of Computing at Dublin City
University in fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of Doctor of
Philosophy (Ph.D.), under the
supervision of Prof. Andy Way, by Sara
Morrissey
The 2008 12th Best Thesis Award
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Winner
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Readability and Controlled Language:
does the study of readability have merit in
the field of controlled language, and is
readability increased by applying
controlled-language rules to texts?,
dissertation submitted to Dublin City
University in partial fulfilment of the
requirements for the degree of MA in
Translation Studies, under the supervision
of Dr Sharon O’Brien, by Patrick Cadwell
The Best Scholar Awards
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2003 Aoife O’Gorman (University of
Limerick, Ireland)
2004 Manuel Mata Pastor (Universidad
Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
2005 Abdalghani Mushtaha (Free
University of Brussels)
2006 Miguel Bernal (University of
Roehampton, UK)
2007 Asgeir Frimannsson (Queensland
University of Technology,
Australia)
The 2008 6th Best Scholar Award
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The title of the proposed research project
is Productivity and quality in the postediting of outputs from translation
memories and machine translation, to be
supervised by Prof. Anthony Pym, PhD
program in Translation and Intercultural
Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain.
The researcher and winner of the 2008
LRC Best Scholar Award is Ana
Guerberof Arenas.
Session II
Localisation – from Open Standards to Open Source
Open standards in use in localisation - an engineering approach
Andres Vega, Tek Translations
The Race for Open Source
Frank Bergmann, Project Open & Tiny Tm
Session III
Streamlining the process
Process Automation at LSPs – It Ain’t Just About the Tools
David Filip, Moravia Worldwide
Systemic localisation validation across languages
Martin Ørsted, Microsoft Ireland
Session IV
In no uncertain terms…
Checking Terminology Consistency with Statistical Methods
Alfredo Maldonado, Masaki Itagaki, Microsoft EDC
Automation of terminology tasks using T-Manager
Rafael Guzmán, Symantec