Reinhard Schäler has been working with Irish and overseas companies in the area of software localisation since 1986. Together with universities and industrial partners, he has prepared and co-ordinated successful proposals for projects under the European Union's Fourth Framework Programme and organized several international conferences and workshops. He has given lectures on the subject at Irish universities, presented papers at international conferences on Natural Language Processing and has published a number of articles on NLP and software localisation. He has been a researcher in the Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, since 1993 and is the manager of the Localisation Resources Centre (UCD) since 1996. He is a founder member of the Software Localisation Interest Group (SLIG) and its chairperson since 1996.

Email: reinhard.schaler@ucd.ie

 

 

Bernice McDonagh has been working with the Localisation Resources Centre since May 1996. A graduate of University College Galway, she completed an MA in Translation Studies at Dublin City University in 1995. Prior to joining the LRC she spent six months as a trainee with the European Parliament in Luxembourg where she worked on the evaluation of texts for alignment and translation memory preparation.

Email: bernice.mcdonagh@ucd.ie

 

 

Helen Wybrants joined the LRC in February as the project manager for the ADAPT projet Certified Localisation Professional (CLP) of which the LRC is the promoting organisation. Helen was the first chairperson of SLIG in 1994 and the organizer of the first SLIG conference, SLIG '95. Subsequently, she coordinated the work of SLIG's special interest group on training and education and published a position paper on the work of this group in the LRC's 1997 Yearbook. She prepared the final proposal of the CLP project for the LRC, which was based on an initial proposal prepared by the LRC and Una Murphy of TELSI.

Email: hjw@iol.ie

Conor McDonagh had been working for some time on a short-term contract basis before he joined the LRC in January to work with the centre on the European TransRouter Project and maintain its Localisation Information Exchange Point (LIEP). Conor was awarded a PhD by University College Galway and has worked as research officer in DCU. He has also worked on research projects in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries.

Email: conor.mcdonagh@ucd.ie