Awarded Localisation Theses

The following is a list of some of the localisation research theses awarded by the Localisation Research Centre (LRC). Every year the award prizes have been sponsored by Symantec Ireland. Hard copies of additional theses that were submitted are available to researchers who contact us.

For more information on possible research topics and how to apply, click here. 

2012

Adaptive Retrieval, Composition & Presentation of Closed-Corpus and Open-Corpus Information
(by Ben Steichen

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2011

The Integration of Machine Translation and Translation Memory
(by Yifan He

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2010

Resourcing Machine Translation with Parallel Treebanks
(by John Tinsley)

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2009

Lexical Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation
(by Hany Hassan)

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2008

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?
(by Patrick Cadwell)

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2008 Runner Up

Data-Driven Machine Translation for Sign Languages (by

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2007