Sunday Times article on World Cup Twanslator project

The Sunday Times interviewed Prof. Andy Way and Dr. Declan Dagger about the CNGL / CLARITY The Twanslator:World Cup 2010 project.

The Twanslator:World Cup 2010 project forms part of the CNGL efforts into personalised multilingual social networking (codenamed ‘myisle’). Headed up by Prof. Vincent Wade (Deputy Director & Track Leader for Digital Content Management - TCD) and Dr. Declan Dagger (Postdoctoral researcher in Digital Content Management - TCD) ‘myisle’ seeks to enable the “right time web” by applying CNGL research and technologies to create personalised and localised web experiences on the fly. This specific work on the Twanslator:World Cup 2010 project is being coordinated by Prof. Andy Way (Track leader for Integrated Language Technologies / Machine Translation - DCU), Dr Declan Dagger and CNGL researchers are collaborating with researchers from the CLARITY research centre on aspects of the project.

Twanslator WC 2010 is an attempt to filter the information streams on Twitter during the world cup into a number of different languages and overlay sentiment analysis techniques to create match summaries.

You can view the front-page article at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article7144941.ece