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LRC XII 
The Localisation Research Forum

The 12th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference 
organised by the Localisation Research Centre (LRC)
with the Global Initiative for Local Computing (GILC)

26 - 27 - 28 September 2007
European Foundation, Loughlinstown, 
Dublin, Ireland

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Conference Programme*

Thursday 27 September - Friday 28 September

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Thursday 27 September 2007 - European Foundation Building, Loughlinstown, Dublin

08:00

Registration and Coffee

08:30

Opening Session

 

Welcome

Localisation Research Roadmap

 

Keynote 1 Dr Thomas Arend, Google 

 

XLIFF in the Localisation of Open Source Software - One step forward, two steps back?

Asgeir Frimannsson - Queensland University of Technology

10:30

Coffee Break

10:45

Session 2 - Quality and Automation

Automating Your QA PRocess to Save Time and Improve Consistency

Iñaki Hernández-Lasa - Tek Translation International

 

An alternative approach to Software Testing to enable SimShip for the localisation market, using Shadow.
Kieran Arthur - Brandt Translation

 

A Process for Risk Based Localisation Testing

Tim Callanan - McAfee

13:00

Lunch Break

14:00

Session 3 - Localisation - Under the Radar

 

Minority language success: Not only Catalan (but in Catalan)

Felix Donoso - Management System Solutions (MSS)

 

Keyboards for Indic Languages

Gihan V. Dias, G. Balachandran

15:30

Break

16:00

Session 4 - Putting the U into GUI

 

What You See is Waht You Get? A Pilot Experiment on Access to  Visual Information in Translation Interfaces.

José-Ramón Biau-Gil - Rovira i Virgili University, Spain

16:45

Announcement of LRC Academic Award Winners Best Thesis - Best Scholar

17:00 Bus returns to Hotel

19:00-22:00

Conference Dinner 

 

 

Friday 28 September 2007 - European Foundation Building, Loughlinstown, Dublin

08:30

Registration and Coffee

08:50

Opening Session

 

Welcome

 

Keynote 2 - David Rojas - Tegic Communications 

 

Careers in Localisation and the CLP programme

Angela Starkmann-Lehr & Inger Larsen

10:45

Coffee Break

11:00

Session 2 - Language and Translation Technology pt. 1

The Expansion/Compression Factor in Translated Texts

Luis R. Cerna

 

Exploding the myth (the gerund in Machine Translation)
Presenter: Nora Aranberri - Dublin City University

12.30

Lunch Break

13:30

Session 3 - Language and Translation Technology pt. 2

 

Translation Automation & Collaboration

Tony O'Dowd - Alchemy Software Development

 

Using pseudo translation to ensure world-ready software

Aidan Killeen - McAfee

15:00

Break

15:15

Session 4 - Process Automation

 

Future Web Based Translation Environments

Stefan Kreckwitz

 

Collaboration Between an LSP and a Technology Provider in Practice: Why and How Moravia Worldwide and Idiom Technologies are Working Together

Gráinne Maycock - Moravia Worldwide, Peter Reynolds - Idiom

17:30

Conference Close

 

*programme may be subject to change

 



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