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August 2007

The programme for the 12th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference Organised by the Localisation Reseach Centre (LRC) is now online.

LRC XII — The Localisation Research Forum will feature two keynote presentations. The first keynote will be provided by Dr Thomas Arend of Google. Dr Arend will present on how Google manages to be so successful in localizing products and services.

The second keynote will be provided by David M Rojas of Tegic Communications. The topic of David’s keynote will be corpus linguistics and culturally relevant localisation for the global mobile market .

Other presentations at the event will include:

	Careers in Localisation and the CLP programme·
	Automating Your QA Process to Save Time and Improve Consistency
	Exploding the myth (the gerund in machine translation)
	Using heuristic methods for automatically correcting Persian texts
	A Process for Risk-Based Localisation Testing· Using pseudo translation to ensure world-ready software
	Future Web Based Translation Environments
	The Expansion/Compression Factor in Translated Texts
	What You See Is What You Get?
	Keyboards for Indic Languages· Minority language success: Not only Catalan (but in Catalan)
	Computational Linguistics and Challenges Of Persian Script and Language
	An alternative approach to Software testing ... using Shadow.
	XLIFF in the Localisation of Open Source Software
	Automating Content Localisation Process for Legacy Web Applications
	Collaboration Between an LSP and a Technology Provider in Practice

For full programme information please click here

To register log on to www.localisationshop.com

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