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How to automate your localisation process while maintaining quality and achieving return on investment is the central theme of this year’s 11th Annual Conference organized by the
LRC.
The conference will be held in Dublin, in cooperation with the European Union funded IGNITE project, and aims to provide an insight into how linguistic resources can be employed in an automated localisation environment.
Click on the links in the programme to view
conference presentations
or click here
to view pictures from the conference
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| Wednesday
25 October 2006 - European Foundation Building,
Loughlinstown, Dublin |
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08:30
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Registration
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09:00
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Session 1:
Welcome
Reinhard Schäler (LRC)
Awards
Presentation
Opening
- Once Upon a Time in Dublin
Tony O'Dowd - Alchemy Software Development
Keynote 1: - CLDR - Locales for the World
Lisa
Moore, IBM National Language Competency Center
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10:30
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Coffee Break
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11:15
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Session 2: Translation Quality and Automation
Setup of Term Bases/Term Lists for Terminology
Checking
Angelika
Zerfass, Zaac.de
Quality
Control when Localising Marketing Texts
Angela Starkmann Lehr - MT-G
Automating
Translation in the Localisation Factory
Sharon O'Brien, Dublin City University
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12:50
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Lunch Break
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14:00
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Session 3: Outside the Mainstream
Designing
a Virtual Training Environment for Localisation
Nuria
Vidal & Amparo Alcina Caudet, Universitat Jaume I
de Castelló
The Effects of the Localisation of FOSS in a
Sophisticated Developing World Economy
Dwayne
Bailey, Translate.org.za
WordForge
Dwayne
Bailey, Translate.org.za
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15:40
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Break
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| 16:00
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Interactive Translation vs Pre-translation in the Context of Translation Memory Systems:
Investigating the effects of translation method on productivity, quality and translator
satisfaction - Winner of 2006 Best Thesis Award
Julian Wallis, University of Ottawa
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16:25
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Session 4: New Media Localisation
How
Much do the Audio Visual Subtitling and Localisation
Industries Have in Common
Selma
Boyd
Evolution of Online Communication Localisation
in the Age of Media Convergence
Mario
De Bortoli & Fabio Minazzi, Euro RSCG 4D Digital
& Binari Sonori Srl
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17:30
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Closing Session
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19:30-22:30
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Conference
Dinner - Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel
sponsored
by IGNITE
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| Thursday
26 October 2006 - European Foundation Building,
Loughlinstown, Dublin |
09:00
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Session 1
Welcome
Keynote 2: The Internationalisation Tag Set
Richard Ishida, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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10:00
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Coffee Break
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10:30
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Session 2: Process Automation
What's new in XLIFF 1.2
Tony
Jewtushenko, Product Innovator
Localisation
Process Management and Workflow Control Using XLIFF
Files
Javier
Solá, WordForge
Automating
the HTML Localisation Process: An Implementation Using
a Java Internationalisation Appproach
Professor Manikrao L. Dhore & Abhishek
K.Dhote, Vishwakarma Institure of Technology
Automating
Globalisation
Peter Reynolds, Idiom Technologies Inc.
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13:00
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Lunch Break
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14:00
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Session 3: The Ignite Project
The
IGNITE Project - Linguistic Infrastructure for
Localisation: Language Data, Tools and Standards &
IGNITE - The Localisation Factory; A
Demonstration
Reinhard
Schäler, Kevin
Bargary & Michael Bourke,Localisation Research Centre & IGNITE
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15:00
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Break
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15:15
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Session 4: Panel Discussion - Workflow and Process
Automation
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16:45
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Close
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Back Up
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The Localisation Research Centre (LRC) provides a comprehensive information service to the localisation industry; conducts research and development in localisation and related areas, such as language engineering; produces a range of publications including Localisation Focus - the International Journal of Localisation; and oversees a number of education and training programs.
Who
should attend
LRC conferences are aimed at managers, engineers,
translators and internationalisation specialists working in
localisation. They are also aimed at businesses, governments, and
international development agencies that would like to find out how
internationalisation and localisation can help their endeavours. |
Fees**
Both
Days - €380
(€290 for TILP Members)
register
now
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*Programme may be subject to change
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