Intern joins ILT 1.9

Shane Gilchrist joined the ILT 1.9 group on an intern contract for the month of January.

He was employed to create Irish Sign Language video from an English corpus of GP secretary-patient dialogue. This will form the first part of our bilingual corpus for MT. He also took part in the transcription of the ISL videos into an annotated format suitable for translation and then animation. He acted as a representative of the Deaf community and a consultant for CNGL He was aided in his video translation by Alvean Jones, who verified the translations for accuracy. Shane is currently finishing a Masters at the University of Amsterdam on General Linguistics.