25th-26th October 2006


How to get there

LRC XI 
The Localisation Factory

The 11th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference 
organised by the Localisation Research Centre and IGNITE

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Fees

Accommodation

Keynote Speakers

European Foundation Building,
Loughlinstown, 
Dublin, Ireland

 

Breaking News: Richard Ishida of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will give a keynote presentation at LRC XI on the W3C Internationalisation Tag Set.  Click here for more information on Richard.

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.

Wednesday 25 October

08:30 Registration

09:00

Welcome
Reinhard Schäler (LRC)

09:15

Opening Address
Tony O'Dowd (Alchemy Software Development)

09:45

Keynote 1
Lisa Moore (IBM)

10:45

Coffee Break

11:15

Session 1: Translation Quality and Automation
Setup of term bases/lists for terminology checking
Quality control when localising marketing texts
Automating translation in the 'localisation factory'. An investigation of post editing effort

13:00

Lunch Break

14:00 LRC Awards Presentation

14:15

Session 2: Outside the Mainstream
Desigining a virtual training environment for Localisation
Automatic Generation of Morphological Variants in Translation Memory

15:15

Break

15:45

Session 3: New Media Localisation
How much to the audio visual subtitling and localisation industries have in common?
Evolution of online communication localisation in the age of media convergence

17:00

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Thursday 26 October 

09:00

Keynote 2
Richard Ishida (World Wide Web Consortium)

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Session 1: Process Automation
What's new in XLIFF 1.2
Localisation process management and workflow control using XLIFF files
Automating the HTML localisation process: an implementation using the Java internationalisation approach.
Environment to support the localisation process.

12:45

Lunch Break

14:00

Session 2: The IGNITE Project
T
his session will feature members of the IGNITE consortium group giving presentations, talks and  and demonstrations on the IGNITE project. 

15:00

Break

15:15

Session 3: Panel Discussion
This main feature of this session will be a panel discussion based on workflow and process automation from the user perspective.

17:00

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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)
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