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

Reinhard.Schaler@ul.ie

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

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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

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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