Commercial and International Outreach

Exhibiting at and Sponsoring International Conferences

Members of CNGL have attended, exhibited at and given presentations at international conferences (including COLING 08, ACL 08, SIGIR 08, LISA 08 and CLEF 08) to raise the profile of CNGL. A full list of the conferences we exhibited at is given in the appendix.

The CNGL booth at COLING 2008: The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, held in Manchester, England.

LRC 13th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference

The 13th Internationalisation and Localisation Conference organised by the LRC, took place on 2nd-3rd October 2008 at the Marino Institute of Education in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland with the first Think Tank meeting on the pre-conference day, taking place in Dublin on 1st October. The theme of the conference was Localisation4All, and the conference focused on the provision of quality localisation services for people world-wide. The conference was attended by 90+ participants.

The conference was sponsored by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) and was officially opened by Josef van Genabith, Director of the CNGL. In addition the event featured specific CNGL sections covering the centre's four research areas which were introduced by Prof. Vincent Wade, Prof. Andy Way and Prof. Reinhard Schaler.

VII LRC Summer School, 29th July-1st August 2008

The CNGL supported, through UL, the VII LRC Summer School, held at UL in co-operation with The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP). The summer school was open to Masters and Ph.D. students as well as people from industry and undergraduate students. Thirteen attendants became Certified Localisation Professionals (CLP), Level 1. The programme was also supported by CNGL industry partners SDL, Alchemy Software Development and SDL Passolo.

Localisation Research Centre (LRC) Best Scholar Award

In 2008, the CNGL co-sponsored the 6th Best Localisation Scholar Award, together with Cont[text]. The LRC awards are the most valuable and longest established academic awards in localisation. The winner was Ana Guerberof, Arenas for Productivity and quality in the post-editing of outputs from translation memories and machine translation, supervised by Prof. Anthony Pym, Ph.D. program in Translation and Intercultural Studies, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain. CNGL will again be supporting the 2009 Awards.

Localisation Focus, the International Journal of Localisation

Localisation Focus, The International Journal of Localisation is co-sponsored by CNGL. Two issues have been produced by the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) in 2008 and both had SFI and Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) branding prominently displayed on the cover. The first issue was distributed to approximately 400 subscribers and was also sent to libraries world-wide. Issues were also distributed at industry events such as the LRC XII - Localisation4All (8th-12th December 2008 Dublin), Localization World (9th-11th June 2008 Berlin, Germany & 13th-15th October 2008 Madison, USA) and Translating and the Computer 30 (27th-28th November London, UK) The second issue is in the final stages of production and will be sent out in February 2009, and distributed at 2009 localisation-relevant Industry events. The third issue will focus on CNGL research and will be published in the second half of 2009.

CLP Programme

CNGL, through UL, supported The Institute of Localisation Professional (TILP) in its efforts to develop Level 2 of its Certified Localisation Professional (CLP) programme. TILP with the support of the LRC organised 11 courses in 9 countries, with 88 professionals being certified during summer 2008. In 2009, similar support is planned for the development of level 3 courses.