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CNGL at ACL 2009

The joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009) took place in Suntec City Singapore from the 2nd August to the 7th August. It was organised by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) and A* STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. As a Gold Sponsor, CNGL was invited to exhibit during the three days of the main ACL-09 conference. Several members and collaborators of CNGL attended the conference, and presented posters and papers at the ACL-09 conference, and at the collocated event EMNLP-2009 (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing).

Member of CNGL's external advisory board, Prof. Frederick Jelinek of Johns Hopkins University was presented with the lifetime achievement award. Our congratulation to Prof. Jelinek.

Josef and Ríona at ACL

Tsuyoshi Okita showing his poster to Karolina Owczarzak at ACL

First ever team represented Ireland at the 7th International Olympiad in Linguistics

Ruadhan Treacy, from Newtown School, Waterford won a Honourable Mention award in the individual round of the 7th International Olympiad in Linguistics last week (27-31 July 2009) in Wroclaw, Poland. Congratulations to Ruadhan and all the Irish team for doing us proud!!

23 teams from 17 countries competed in the individual and team competitions. Bulgaria and Poland got gold medals in the indiviual round and USA Red Team won the team competition.

The Irish team was made up of two members of the winning team from Newtown School, Waterford, and two of the top students in the AILO individual competition. The team was accompanied by team leader Hugh Dobbs, a teacher from Newtown School, and CNGL's Education and Outreach team.

Team members:

From left to right:

Prof. Mikel Forcada at CNGL

Mikel L. Forcada, a visiting professor on sabbatical leave from Universitat d'Alacant, Spain, will be based at CNGL, DCU from now until June 2010. Mikel is working with Prof. Andy Way on integration of an existing rule-based open-source machine translation platform with efficient corpus-based machine translation modules and tools. Mikel got an ETS Walton Award to fund this work.

INTRA student working with DCU and TCD CNGL researchers

CNGL took on an undergraduate intern as part of the Dublin City University’s INTRA programme. Jian Zhang worked on a toolkit for use in the CNGL CTYI course for 14-17 years olds on Search Engines in DCU. Jian then worked with CNGL researchers in Trinity College Dublin working on adaptive hypermedia software.

Intern worked on Primary School Localisation Toolkit in UL

As a part of the CNGL Undergraduate Students as Researchers Programme, Enda Quigley, an undergraduate student, joined CNGL researchers during the summer in the University of Limerick for 8 weeks. Enda worked on a primary school localisation toolkit. The toolkit is designed to fit the NCCA guidelines on intercultural education.

Adaptive Langauge Learning Computer Game

A TCD-based CNGL PhD student, Neil Peirce, worked with one of the teachers who took part in the first ever All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) in DCU. Margaret Mohan, from Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Malahide, worked with Neil to develop roleplays within his adaptive educational game that could used for the Leaving Certificate German oral exams.

Four ILT papers accepted

ILT had two papers accepted for presentation at EMNLP, which was held on August 6--7 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, immediately following ACL/IJCNLP 2009. The first paper was entitled A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding and is joint work with Hany Hassan and Khalil Sima'an. The second paper was entitled Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: A Step Towards Evaluation Measure Based MT Training and is joint work with Sergio Penkale and Daniel Galron, a student of Dan Melamed's who recently completed a placement in DCU funded by CNGL.

They also had a paper accepted for presentation at the Named Entities Workshop (NEWS) 2009, which took place on 7th August, 2009 at ACL/IJCNLP 2009. The paper was entitled English--Hindi Transliteration Using Context-Informed PB-SMT: the DCU System, and is joint work with Rejwanul Haque, Ankit Srivastava and Sudip Naskar. Tsuyoshi Okita had a paper entitled "Data Cleaning for World Alignment" was accepted into the Student Research Workshop of ACL/IJCNLP 2009 as well.

AILO Results

The All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad took place in Dublin on Monday April 27th 2009. Over 90 secondary school students competed in the individual and team competitions in the Venue in the Hub in DCU.

The Individual competition was won by Dylan Coburn Gray, Mount Temple School, Dublin and the Team competition was Newtown School, Waterford.

The International Linguistics Olympiad will take place 26-31 July in Wrocław, Poland. The team from Newtown School, Waterford and their teacher have been invited to represent Ireland in Poland. As the winning individual, Dylan Coburn Gray has been invited to accompany the team to Poland to represent Ireland also. All will take part in the individual competition in Poland.

Full results can be found on the AILO website.

Students taking part in the AILO individual competition.

CNGL at EACL 2009

The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09) took place in Athens 30 March - 3 April 2009. It was organised by the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos" - Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications. It covered a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarisation, and information extraction. Members of CNGL attended the event.

CNGL at EACL 2009, Athens, Greece

CNGL welcomes researcher, Felipe Sánchez Martínez, for 3 month stay

Felipe Sánchez Martínez from the Universitat d'Alacant has arrived for a 3-month stay at CNGL. Felipe did his PhD with Prof. Mikel Forcada in Alicante. While he is here is interested primarily in investigating what gains might be found if elements from their RBMT system Apertium were to be combined with elements from our MaTrEx system.

EAMT-09

The ILT group have just had three papers accepted for presentation at EAMT-09, the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, which will take place May 14-15 at UPC in Barcelona, Spain. The three papers are as follows:

Spring Meeting

The CNGL Spring 2009 meeting took place in DCU on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th February. All CNGL members attended the event and many of our International Collaborators and external advisory board were in attendance. There were 30 demos and posters on show from CNGL PhD students and Post doctoral researchers on Thursday. A public meeting was held on Friday afternoon. Prof. Josef van Genabith gave an talk about localisation in every day life. This was followed by a talk by Cara Greene on some highlights from the Education and Outreach Programme. Dr. Elizabeth Shriberg (SRI International) gave a very entertaining keynote entitled, "Ten Reasons for Ignoring Prosody in Spoken Language Processing -- And Why They Are Wrong".

Prof. Josef van Genabith and Dr. Elizabeth Shriberg (SRI International) at the CNGL public meeting

Graph-based Mining of Digital Content Tutorial

CNGL ran a tutorial on graph-based mining of digital content in DCU 19-21st January 2009. The tutorial was given by Prof. Eugene Levner (Holon Institute of Technology and Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Dr. Alexander Troussov (IBM) and Dr. John Judge (IBM). Participants included CNGL members, CLARITY members and students from the School of Computing.

AILO competition date: Monday 27th April

The All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) is going to take on Monday 27th of April in DCU. The president of DCU, Prof. Ferdindand von Prondzinski, will open the event. Schools and individual students from all over Ireland are coming to compete in the team and individual competitions. The International Linguistics Olympiad will take place 26-31 July 2009 in Wroclaw, Poland. More information on the AILO website.

Microsoft Internship available

Microsoft have a Computational Linguist internship available. See the announcment here.

CNGL Supports LISA Forum Europe 2008

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) supported Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) Forum Europe 2008 (LISA) which took place in Dublin in the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, from December 08 - 11 2008.

The LISA Forum Europe concentrated on the business impact in the globalisation industry of operating without standards.

CNGL had a exhibition stand at the LISA conference. A number of CNGL industrial and academic members attended and presented at the event.

L-R: Dr. Paraic Sheridan at LISA Forum Europe in Dublin

The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP) awards 2008 Fellowship to CNGL Industrial Partner Tony O’Dowd

Dublin, Ireland (09 December 2008) -- The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP), headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, today awarded its 2008 Fellowship to Tony O’Dowd. The TILP Fellowship is being awarded annually to a distinguished personality in the localisation community who has contributed significantly to advance both the work of the Institute and that of the profession as a whole. The award is being made on the recommendation of the TILP Council.

Tony O’Dowd, FILP, is the founder and Managing Director of Alchemy Software Development Ltd.(recently acquired by Translations.com), based in Dublin, Ireland, and one of the world’s first dedicated and leading independent localisation tools developers. In addition to leading Alchemy to continued commercial success over the years, Tony has also made very significant contributions to the localisation community for many years. Amongst these have been significant contributions to TILP’s leading Certified Localisation Professional (CLP) programme and to the facilitation of access to state-of-the-art localisation technologies for students and trainees.

Tony O’Dowd joins a distinguished group of TILP Fellows. Brian Kelly, FILP, founder of Softrans International, Ireland’s first localisation service provider, was awarded the first TILP Fellowship in 2006. Florian Sachse, FILP, of Passolo GmbH (now SDL Passolo) was awarded the 2007 TILP Fellowship.

Reinhard Schäler, CEO of TILP, said “Tony O’Dowd, Florian Sachse and Brian Kelly have earned the universal respect of the localisation community. They have contributed significantly to the development of localisation and TILP for many years. They have done this with a spirit of generosity and openness that is truly exemplary. TILP is extremely proud to have these outstanding personalities as its Fellows.”

“It is an honour for me to have been awarded TILP’s 2008 Fellowship”, said Tony O’Dowd. “TILP is the organization that certifies localisation professionals world-wide, 88 professionals in ten countries in 2008 alone. TILP is active in developed markets as well as in poorer regions of the world. I know that TILP is especially proud of it collaboration with the African Network of Localisation. I look forward to working with the Institute on the further development of its CLP programme over the coming years.”

About TILP: TILP was formally registered as a non-profit organization created “to develop professional practices in localisation globally” on July 30, 2002. In short order, TILP has developed strong industry partnerships and offers a range of membership services. In May 2003, TILP merged with the Professional Association for Localization (PAL) and is now the world’s only industry association based exclusively on individual membership. TILP is the organizer of the Ask the Expert sessions and the Certified Localisation Professional (CLP) programme. Members of the 2008/2009 Council are: Alan Barrett (President), Julieta Coirini (Deputy President), Romina Marazzato (Vice President), Eoin McNamara, Patricia Muñoz Tavira, Peter Reynolds and Angela Starkmann.

Contact information: Reinhard Schäler (Telephone: +353-87-6736414; e-mail: info (AT) tilponline.org. TILP web site: www.tilponline.org.)

IBM partner wins Computer Linguistics - Applications Best Demonstration Award 2nd place

On 20-22 of October Alexander Troussov (IBM) participated in the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Wisla, Poland. He presented the the paper "A Linguistic Light Approach to Multilingualism in Lexical Layers for Ontologies". This paper got Computer Linguistics - Applications Best Demonstration Award 2nd place.

CNGL Welcomes Intellectual Property Manager

Mr. Steve Gotz started as IP Manager on 1st of December 2008.

DCLRS and NCLT talks at CNGL

Dr. Jonathan Ginzburg from King's College, London gave the DCLRS seminar series talk in TCD on 07.11.08 on "What can and what cannot go wrong in Interaction". Dr. Brian Mac Namee, Dr. John Kelleher and Dr. Sarah Jane Delany (DIT) gave a DCLRS talk on "Medical Language Processing for Patient Diagnosis Using Text Classification and Negation Labelling" on 14.11.08. Dr. Alexander Troussov (IBM) gave a talk entitled "Mining of Graph Data in Social Semantic Desktop" on 21.11.08. Prof. Lauri Karttunen from PARC and Stanford University gave a special DCLRS/CNGL/NCLT talk on 24.11.08 on "Computing Textual Inference" in DCU. Dr. Rachele De Felice from Educational Testing Service (Princeton) gave the DCLRS semiar talk on "Automatic correction of prepositions and determiners innon-native English" on 28.11.08.

An NCLT seminar will be given by Michael Carl in L2.21 School of Computing at 16:00 on Tuesday 02.12.08 on "Static and Dynamic Data in Past and Future Machine Translation" and Ann Devitt will present work on Sentiment Analysis on Wednesday 03.12.08 at 2pm in DCU (details to follow). The next DCLRS seminar series will be given by Prof. Nick Campbell (Center for Language and Communication Studies, TCD and ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Labs on "The Expanding Role of Prosody in Speech Communication Technology" on Friday 05.12.08 at 16:00 in the Jonathan Swift Lecture Theatre (Arts Building 2041a), Trinity College Dublin.

Conor Gaffney wins Irish Software Association Student Medal

Conor Gaffney, a PhD student supervised by Professor Vinny Wade in Trinity College Dublin, has been awarded the Student Medal by the Irish Software Association as 'the most innovative and commercially viable software product or service'. The award category was very competitive with applicants from across the Irish university and HE sector. The research was performed as part of the ADAPT research project on personalised eLearning.

CNGL joins ICT CSETs in offering best Computer Science Thesis Award

CLARITY, CNGL, CTVR, DERI and Lero will present an award for the best doctoral dissertation of 2008 in a software related discipline.

The award will be given to the thesis that has made the most significant contribution to its field - whether computer science, software engineering or software related area. The winner will receive a prize of €2,500.

CNGL are holding an internal competition to pick a PhD thesis to represent CNGL in the joint ICT-CSET competition. All CNGL postdoctoral researchers, who have submitted their thesis in 2008, are eligible. The PhD thesis does not have to have been completed at a CNGL university but it must be written in English.

Each thesis must be accompanied by a short supporting letter, describing the importance of the research, from the postdoctoral researcher's CNGL supervisor. If CNGL postdoctal researchers want to participate, please submit your thesis to your CNGL supervisor ASAP.

Please click here for more details.

First Issue of CNGL Newsletter

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Dr. Anton Bryl visits DCU

Dr. Anton Bryl from Create-Net (Trento, Italy) gave a talk 14:00-15:00 in L2.21 in the School of Computing today on Spam Filtering with Local SVM Classifiers"

ICT Showcase

The cutting edge of DCU research was showcased to over 200 companies with an interest in commercialising technology developed by leading Irish universities last week. The ICT Showcase is an annual event run by Enterprise Ireland. It was held in the SAS Radisson in Dublin's city centre on 6th October 2008. The event focussed solely on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) research, with the aim of bringing together researchers and companies working in this area. DCU had a broad range of technologies on show, which included machine translation and localisation.

CNGL Industry Partner Invited to Give Keynote Speech at International Conference

Traslán's Senior Software Developer, Dr. Declan Groves, gave a keynote speech at the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2008) 21-25 October 2008. Read more on Translán News and Events.

CNGL Supports ACM CIKM 2008 as a Bronze Sponsor

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) was a bronze sponsor of the 17th ACM International Conference of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008) which takes place in Napa Valley, California October 26-30, 2008.

The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) brings together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities.

CNGL postdoc, Sara Morrissey, is runner-up in LRC Best Localisation Thesis Award

Sara Morrissey, a CNGL PostDoctoral researcher, was a runner-up in The Localisation Research Centre (LRC) Best Localisation Thesis Award. The competition was open to students who had completed a thesis on a relevant theme within the past two years and was judged by a panel of academic and industry experts. Sara's Phd thesis was entitiled "Data-Driven Machine Translation for Sign Languages". Sara is working in CNGL on Assistive Technology for People with Limited English in the Patient-Doctor Scenario.

New CNGL Facilities at DCU

CNGL have moved into their newly refurbished offices and labs. The new area consists of director's office and main CNGL office, board room, administration offices and two post-doc labs. The NCLT lab is currently being refurbished to add two more post-doc labs to the existing PhD lab.

CNGL Sponsors Coling 2008

Coling 2008 is taking place is Manchester from 18-22 August. CNGL is supporting Coling as a bronze sponsor. CNGL has a boothe at the conference promoting the centre's research and current vacancies. A number of CNGL and NCLT members are attending the conference. Yuqing Guo and Ventsislav Zhechev are presenting papers at Coling.

CNGL Welcomes Teacher Intern

The CNGL Education and Outreach Programme is hosting a teacher, Ms. Teresa Nevin, in DCU. Teresa researched and is teaching the arabic culture side of the "Arabic Language and Culture" course that CNGL are running with the Centre for Talented Youth. Teresa has lived in the middle east for some time. She is working with researchers from CNGL / NCLT who are teaching the arabic language and web design elements.

Localisation Focus - The International Journal for Localisation

Call for Contributions to Localisation Focus - The International Journal for Localisation (December 2008)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Monday September 15th 2008

Localisation Focus-The International Journal of Localisation provides a forum for localisation professionals and researchers to discuss and present their localisation-related work, covering all aspects of this multi-disciplinary field, including software engineering and HCI, tools and technology development, cultural aspects, translation studies, human language technologies (including machine and machine assisted translation), project management, workflow and process automation, education and training, and details of new developments in the localisation industry. Proposed contributions are peer-reviewed thereby ensuring a high standard of published material. Localisation Focus-The International Journal of Localisation is distributed worldwide to libraries and localisation professionals. Localisation-related articles, book reviews, perspectives, insights and correspondence are all welcome.

Editor: Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

For more information on submission and article guidelines please see the Localisation Focus Homepage.

LRC Best Localisation Thesis Award

The Localisation Research Centre (LRC), in conjunction with CNGL and Symantec Ireland Ltd., are inviting entries for the 12th annual LRC award for the Best Thesis on a localisation-related topic. Students who have completed a thesis on a relevant theme within the past two years are invited to submit their work to the LRC for consideration. Theses may be submitted prior to their degree award and will be judged by a panel of academic and industry experts.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Monday September 15th 2008

For more information please see the Best Localisation Thesis Award Homepage.

LRC Best Localisation Scholar Award

The Localisation Research Centre (LRC), in conjunction with CNGL and Symantec Ireland Ltd., are inviting entries for the annual Best Localisation Scholar award.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Monday September 15th 2008

For more information please see the LRC website.

CNGL Supports ACL-08: HLT as a Bronze Sponsor

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a bronze sponsor of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08: HLT) which takes place in Columbus, Ohio from June 15 - 20 2008.

ACL-08: HLT combines the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of the ACL.

A number of CNGL members are attending the event. Joachim Wagner is presenting a paper he wrote in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Foster of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), DCU entitled, "Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text", at the conference.

Inaugural Convention of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)

DCU hosted the Inaugural Convention of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) on Friday May 30th 2008, which included the signing of an Intellectual Property Framework agreement facilitating EUR 14M in industry contributions to the Centre's research.

CNGL is a Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (CSET) established with funding of EUR 16.8M by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The centre brings together thirteen different partners spanning international industry, including IBM, Symantec, Microsoft and Dai Nippon Printing, local SMEs and Irish universities. The industry contribution will bring the total value of the centre to over EUR 30M over 5 years.

The Inaugural CNGL Convention was formally opened by Prof. Ferdinand Prondzynski, President of Dublin City University and was addressed by Prof. Fionn Murtagh, Director of the Information, Communications & Emergent Technologies Directorate at Science Foundation Ireland. A keynote address was given by Jaap van der Meer from The Netherlands, a Language Industry pioneer and Director of the Translation Automation Users Society (TAUS).

View Inaugural Convention Presentation Material

Prof. Marilyn Walker visits TCD

Prof. Marilyn Walker, from the University of Sheffield, gave the DCLRS talk in TCD 16:00-17:00 on Friday October 24th 2008. Her talk is entitled "Generating Language with Personality for Dialogue Systems". Earlier in the day she is having a number of meetings with CNGL researchers in TCD on the areas of personae, text classification and user modeling and evaluation of spoken dialogue systems.

SF/LOC visit Industry

Members of System Framework (SF) visited Alchemy of October 16th 2008 to evaluate the potential for integration of Alchemy products into CNGL demonstrators and to assess the areas where their problems might intersect with CNGL research areas.

Members of SF and LOC are meeting in Symantec on Tuesday 21st October 2008 to discuss asspects of digital content management and workflow/localisation.

Integration Committee Meeting

An Integration Committee Meeting was held on Monday October 20th on the demonstrators. The meeting was held in the CNGL board room in DCU.

CNGL Autumn Meetings

DCU hosted the second CNGL bi-annual meetings last week. A collaborative research agreement meeting took place in Invent on Wednesday 8th October. The Scientific Committee Meeting took place on Thursday 9th October and on the morning of Friday 10th October in S206-209 in DCU. A number of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers gave presentations on their research.

CNGL held an public session on Friday afternoon. There was a brief introduction to CNGL from the director, Prof. Josef van Genabith. The keynote was given by Dr. Declan Groves, a senior software developer in Traslán, on Machine Translation in Practice at Traslán. This was followed by a session on the CNGL Education and Outreach Programme given by Ms. Cara Greene and Prof. Harold Somers.

First Issue of CNGL Newsletter

>> CNGL News Issue 1

Dr. Anton Bryl visits DCU

Dr. Anton Bryl from Create-Net (Trento, Italy) gave a talk 14:00-15:00 in L2.21 in the School of Computing today on Spam Filtering with Local SVM Classifiers"

ICT Showcase

The cutting edge of DCU research was showcased to over 200 companies with an interest in commercialising technology developed by leading Irish universities last week. The ICT Showcase is an annual event run by Enterprise Ireland. It was held in the SAS Radisson in Dublin's city centre on 6th October 2008. The event focussed solely on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) research, with the aim of bringing together researchers and companies working in this area. DCU had a broad range of technologies on show, which included machine translation and localisation.

CNGL Industry Partner Invited to Give Keynote Speech at International Conference

Traslán's Senior Software Developer, Dr. Declan Groves, gave a keynote speech at the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2008) 21-25 October 2008. Read more on Translán News and Events.

CNGL Supports ACM CIKM 2008 as a Bronze Sponsor

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) was a bronze sponsor of the 17th ACM International Conference of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008) which takes place in Napa Valley, California October 26-30, 2008.

The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) brings together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities.

CNGL postdoc, Sara Morrissey, is runner-up in LRC Best Localisation Thesis Award

Sara Morrissey, a CNGL PostDoctoral researcher, was a runner-up in The Localisation Research Centre (LRC) Best Localisation Thesis Award. The competition was open to students who had completed a thesis on a relevant theme within the past two years and was judged by a panel of academic and industry experts. Sara's Phd thesis was entitiled "Data-Driven Machine Translation for Sign Languages". Sara is working in CNGL on Assistive Technology for People with Limited English in the Patient-Doctor Scenario.

New CNGL Facilities at DCU

CNGL have moved into their newly refurbished offices and labs. The new area consists of director's office and main CNGL office, board room, administration offices and two post-doc labs. The NCLT lab is currently being refurbished to add two more post-doc labs to the existing PhD lab.

CNGL Sponsors Coling 2008

Coling 2008 is taking place is Manchester from 18-22 August. CNGL is supporting Coling as a bronze sponsor. CNGL has a boothe at the conference promoting the centre's research and current vacancies. A number of CNGL and NCLT members are attending the conference. Yuqing Guo and Ventsislav Zhechev are presenting papers at Coling.

CNGL Welcomes Teacher Intern

The CNGL Education and Outreach Programme is hosting a teacher, Ms. Teresa Nevin, in DCU. Teresa researched and is teaching the arabic culture side of the "Arabic Language and Culture" course that CNGL are running with the Centre for Talented Youth. Teresa has lived in the middle east for some time. She is working with researchers from CNGL / NCLT who are teaching the arabic language and web design elements.

Localisation Focus - The International Journal for Localisation

Call for Contributions to Localisation Focus - The International Journal for Localisation (December 2008)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Monday September 15th 2008

Localisation Focus-The International Journal of Localisation provides a forum for localisation professionals and researchers to discuss and present their localisation-related work, covering all aspects of this multi-disciplinary field, including software engineering and HCI, tools and technology development, cultural aspects, translation studies, human language technologies (including machine and machine assisted translation), project management, workflow and process automation, education and training, and details of new developments in the localisation industry. Proposed contributions are peer-reviewed thereby ensuring a high standard of published material. Localisation Focus-The International Journal of Localisation is distributed worldwide to libraries and localisation professionals. Localisation-related articles, book reviews, perspectives, insights and correspondence are all welcome.

Editor: Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

For more information on submission and article guidelines please see the Localisation Focus Homepage.

LRC Best Localisation Thesis Award

The Localisation Research Centre (LRC), in conjunction with CNGL and Symantec Ireland Ltd., are inviting entries for the 12th annual LRC award for the Best Thesis on a localisation-related topic. Students who have completed a thesis on a relevant theme within the past two years are invited to submit their work to the LRC for consideration. Theses may be submitted prior to their degree award and will be judged by a panel of academic and industry experts.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Monday September 15th 2008

For more information please see the Best Localisation Thesis Award Homepage.

LRC Best Localisation Scholar Award

The Localisation Research Centre (LRC), in conjunction with CNGL and Symantec Ireland Ltd., are inviting entries for the annual Best Localisation Scholar award.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Monday September 15th 2008

For more information please see the LRC website.

LRC XIII - Localization4all Conference

The Localisation Research Centre, in conjunction with CNGL, held the 13th annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference "LRC XIII - Localization4all" in Marino Institute of Education, Dublin on 2-3 October 2008.

For more information please see the LRC XIII - Localization4all Conference Website.

President of DCU visits CNGL and School of Computing

The President of DCU, Prof. Ferdinand von Prondzinski, visited the School of Computing on the morning of Friday 26th September. He viewed the new CNGL facilities after meeting with School of Computing staff. CNGL used the new board room in DCU to host a series of meetings on Friday 26th September 2008. The Integration Committee took place 1100-1300. The IP Management Board was held from 1300-1500 and the Education and Outreach Board was held from 1500-1700.

CNGL Integration Workshops held in TCD

CNGL Integration workshops were held in TCD on Septmber 10/11th and 19th September 2008. CNGL is committed to delivering a series of demonstrators/base-line systems on an annual basis. The motivation for the demonstrators are to be the primary vehicle for conducting and demonstrating collaborative scientific work between partners, to provide a means for demonstrating the relevance of CNGL research to industry and society in general and to provide milestones for assessing the collective progress and output of the project.

TCD organised two integration workshops to progress the planning and implementation of the demonstrators. All academic partners were invited to attend the first workshop in TCD on September 10th and 11th 2008. The second workshop, to gain feedback from our industrial partners, was held in TCD on September 19th 2008.

ICHEC Courses at DCU

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is running a series of courses on High Performance Computing (HPC), Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) in the School of Computing, DCU from Monday 28th July - Thursday 31st July 2008. A number of CNGL and NCLT members are attending these courses. More information on the courses can be found here.

Machine Translation Workshop

The machine translation (MT) researchers of the CNGL and NCLT discuss their work in a two-day workshop on 23rd and 24th of July 2008. Individual researchers present their past work and plans for the future, and identify areas for collaboration between CNGL and NCLT in the area of MT.
>> Workshop Programme.

CNGL E&O Programme runs CTY Course

The CNGL Education and Outreach Programme is running an "Arabic Language and Culture" and "Web Design" course in conjunction with the Centre for Talented Youth (CTY) this week. Ms. Teresa Nevin, who has taught English in the Middle East for some time, prepared the culture side of this course. She is working with Dr. Lamia Tounsi (Arabic Language), Dr. Sylwia Ozdowska (Web Design) to deliver the course this week. Forty students (aged 7-14) are taking part in this course in the School of Computing, DCU.

IBM LanguageWare Resource Workbench Workshop

CNGL members are participating in a free IBM training workshop on the latest LanguageWare Resource Workbench on July 2-3 2008. IBM have added a lot of new functionality to the core LanguageWare API to support information extraction and shallow parsing and the workbench serves as a data development and testing environment to support and compliment the core technology. Participants will be given the latest version of the software and will leave with a fully configured development environment.

If there is sufficient interest IBM are willing to run more workshops to meet the demand.

7th LRC Internationalisation and Localisation Summer School

The Localisation Research Centre, in conjunction with CNGL, are running the 7th LRC Internationalisation and Localisation Summer School in the University of Limerick, Ireland from 29 July to 01 August 2008

Registration is now closed for the LRC summer school.

CNGL Sponsors Coling 2008

Coling 2008 is taking place is Manchester from 18-22 August. CNGL is supporting Coling as a bronze sponsor. CNGL has a boothe at the conference promoting the centre's research and current vacancies. A number of CNGL and NCLT members are attending the conference. Yuqing Guo and Ventsislav Zhechev are presenting papers at Coling.

CNGL Welcomes Teacher Intern

The CNGL Education and Outreach Programme is hosting a teacher, Ms. Teresa Nevin, in DCU. Teresa researched and is teaching the arabic culture side of the "Arabic Language and Culture" course that CNGL are running with the Centre for Talented Youth. Teresa has lived in the middle east for some time. She is working with researchers from CNGL / NCLT who are teaching the arabic language and web design elements.

Localisation Focus - The International Journal for Localisation

Call for Contributions to Localisation Focus - The International Journal for Localisation (December 2008)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Monday September 15th 2008

Localisation Focus-The International Journal of Localisation provides a forum for localisation professionals and researchers to discuss and present their localisation-related work, covering all aspects of this multi-disciplinary field, including software engineering and HCI, tools and technology development, cultural aspects, translation studies, human language technologies (including machine and machine assisted translation), project management, workflow and process automation, education and training, and details of new developments in the localisation industry. Proposed contributions are peer-reviewed thereby ensuring a high standard of published material. Localisation Focus-The International Journal of Localisation is distributed worldwide to libraries and localisation professionals. Localisation-related articles, book reviews, perspectives, insights and correspondence are all welcome.

Editor: Reinhard Schäler, Director, Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

For more information on submission and article guidelines please see the Localisation Focus Homepage.

CNGL Calendar 2008/9

The CNGL Calendar of upcoming Boards Meetings and Board Constituencies is now online.
View .pdf of Calendar here

CNGL Supports ACL-08: HLT as a Bronze Sponsor

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a bronze sponsor of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08: HLT) which takes place in Columbus, Ohio from June 15 - 20 2008.

ACL-08: HLT combines the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of the ACL.

A number of CNGL members are attending the event. Joachim Wagner is presenting a paper he wrote in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Foster of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), DCU entitled, "Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text", at the conference.

Dr. Johann Bos gives seminar at CNGL/NCLT

The Dublin Computational Lingustics Research Seminar (DCLRS) was given by Dr. Johann Bos on Friday June 6th 2008. Dr. Johan Bos is based at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. His seminar was entitled "Robust Computational Semantics".

DCLRS is a joint seminar series run by DCU, DIT, TCD and UCD since 1996/7. DCLRS 2007/8 is hosted by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) and The National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), DCU.

LRC Best Localisation Thesis Award

The Localisation Research Centre (LRC), in conjunction with CNGL and Symantec Ireland Ltd., are inviting entries for the 12th annual LRC award for the Best Thesis on a localisation-related topic. Students who have completed a thesis on a relevant theme within the past two years are invited to submit their work to the LRC for consideration. Theses may be submitted prior to their degree award and will be judged by a panel of academic and industry experts.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Monday September 15th 2008

For more information please see the Best Localisation Thesis Award Homepage.

LRC Best Localisation Scholar Award

The Localisation Research Centre (LRC), in conjunction with CNGL and Symantec Ireland Ltd., are inviting entries for the annual Best Localisation Scholar award.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Monday September 15th 2008

For more information please see the LRC website.

Inaugural Convention of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)

DCU hosted the Inaugural Convention of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) on Friday May 30th 2008, which included the signing of an Intellectual Property Framework agreement facilitating EUR 14M in industry contributions to the Centre's research.

CNGL is a Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (CSET) established with funding of EUR 16.8M by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The centre brings together thirteen different partners spanning international industry, including IBM, Symantec, Microsoft and Dai Nippon Printing, local SMEs and Irish universities. The industry contribution will bring the total value of the centre to over EUR 30M over 5 years.

The Inaugural CNGL Convention was formally opened by Prof. Ferdinand Prondzynski, President of Dublin City University and was addressed by Prof. Fionn Murtagh, Director of the Information, Communications & Emergent Technologies Directorate at Science Foundation Ireland. A keynote address was given by Jaap van der Meer from The Netherlands, a Language Industry pioneer and Director of the Translation Automation Users Society (TAUS).

CNGL Scientific Committee Meeting

The first CNGL Scientific Committee took place in the Gallery in the Helix on Thursday 29th May 2008. The Scientific Committee coordinates, provides guidance on and monitors performance of all research activities of the Centre, and identifies new research directions. The Scientific Committee Meeting includes all members of the CNGL. In this first meeting, each research track leader presented what the aims of their research are to all CNGL members.