LRC XIII – The Localisation Research Forum
Localisation4All
The 13th Annual Conference of the Localisation Research Centre ▪ 02-03 October 2008 ▪ Marino Institute ▪ Dublin
Reinhard SchälerDirector
University of Limerick
www.localisation.ie
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Contributions fromCNGL, Dublin City University, Facebook, Independent Experts, Lexcelera, Microsoft, Moravia Worldwide, Project ]Open[, Symantec, TEK Translations, Trinity College Dublin, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, University of Limerick
Keynote SpeakersKate Losse, Facebook (USA) Lori Thicke, Lexcelera (France)
House Rules – Tips - Requests
House rules No smoking Please switch off your mobile telephones Resist the temptation to use your computer
Coffee breaks, Lunch, Meeting-up Tips
If you need a taxi, please check well in advance with reception
Local public transport information available at reception desk
Requests 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
Main conference programme Announcement of Awards
01 Oct 2008: 10:30 Reception – Meeting-up
The Bank, 20:00 Public transport
Reception Airport
LRC Conferences
2004 Open Source Localisation 2005 The Global Initiative for
Local Computing 2006 The Localisation Factory 2007 The Localisation Research
Forum
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08:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00 Introduction and Welcome
Session 1: The Localisation Decision
09:10 The Enterprise Localisation Decision, James Grealis, Symantec Corporation
09:50The 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, Microsoft EDC
16:10 Automation of terminology tasks using T-Manager, Rafael Guzmán, Symantec
20:00
Reception - The Bank Bar, College GreenThe 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!
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08:00 Registration & Coffee
08:30 Welcome
08:40Official OpeningJosef van Genabith, Director CNGL
09:00Keynote1Facebook - 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)
10:40Using 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)
11:55Linguistic Comparison and Analysis of Statistical Post-Editing between Chinese and Japanese , Midori Tatsumi, Yanli Sun, DCU
12:30 Lunch
14:00Keynote 2Unlocking Knowledge - Localisation4All, Lori Thicke, Lexcelera (France)
Session 3: Localisation4All - Introduced by Reinhard Schäler
15:00 The Open Localisation Platform - Reinhard Schäler, LRC
15:25Sarawak Language Technology (SaLT) Initiative: The preservation of Sarawak Ethnic Languages, Alvin Yeo, UNIMAS
16:00 Close
Session I
The Localisation DecisionThe Enterprise Localisation DecisionJames Grealis, Symantec Corporation The Consumer Localisation DecisionDaniel Goldschmidt, Internationalization and localization expert
The LRC Awards
The 12th LRC Best Thesis Award Sponsored by Symantec & CNGL
The 6th LRC Best Scholar Award Sponsored by con[text] & CNGL
The Panel 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
1997 Pat O’Sullivan (University College Dublin) 1998 Bróna Collins (Trinity College Dublin) 1999 Yvonne Cleary (University of Limerick) 2000 Pat O’Sullivan (University of Limerick) 2001 Noelia Corte Fernández (City University London, UK) 2002 John Papaioannou (University of Warwick, UK) 2003 Francie Gow (University of Ottawa, Canada) 2004 Huatong Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) 2005 Asgeir Frimannsson (Queensland University of
Technology, Australia) 2006 Julian Wallis (University of Ottawa, Canada) 2007 Federico Gaspari (University of Manchester, U.K.)
The 2008 12th Best Thesis Award
Runner-up 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 Winner
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
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
The title of the proposed research project is Productivity and quality in the post-editing 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 SourceOpen standards in use in localisation - an engineering approachAndres Vega, Tek Translations The Race for Open SourceFrank 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 MethodsAlfredo Maldonado, Masaki Itagaki, Microsoft EDC
Automation of terminology tasks using T-Manager
Rafael Guzmán, Symantec