Commercial and International Outreach

2013 SIGIR Conference

CNGL will co-host SIGIR 2013: the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in Dublin in July 2013.

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2010 LRC XV Conference

The LRC XV Conference will take place September 23-24 2010 in the University of Limerick, Ireland. For more information see the LRC Website.

Action week for Global Information Sharing (AGIS) 2009

AGIS '09 - Promoting Equality through Language and Cultural Diversity - took place in the University of Limerick (UL), Ireland 21 - 23 September 2009. The Action week for Global Information Sharing brought together hundreds of volunteer translators, localisation specialists and NGOs from all over the world to address the plague of global information poverty.

The Rosetta Foundation was launched at AGIS '09. The Rosetta Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation (charity) registered in Ireland. It is a spin-off from the University of Limerick’s Localisation Research Centre and CNGL. The Rosetta Foundation supports the not-for-profit activities of the localisation and translation communities through the development and deployment of an intelligent translation and localisation platform.

The 14th Internationalisation and Localisation Conference organised by the the LRC, took place on 24-25 September 2009 at the Clarion Hotel, in Limerick City, Ireland. The theme of this year's conference was Localisation in The Cloud and the conference looked at the application of cloud based computing and software as a service concepts to the software localisation industry.