LRC XII The Localisation Research Forum

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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