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- 1. The Localisation Research Centre Localisation Research, Education, and Networking since 1995 Reinhard Schäler, Director Reinhard.Schaler@ul.ie - www.localisation.ie IETICT/CIICT 2013 Beijing, China, 27th to 29th of April
- 2. Orientation
- 3. Where in the World?
- 4. How to Get from A to B?
- 6. CNGL • Intelligent Content Translation & Localisation • Translation & Localisation Social Localisation • Nonmarket CNGL – Challenges – Themes Centre Theme Challenge
- 7. Cross CNGL Distribution Creation MT Social Localisation Usability Processes Interop. & Metadata. Research Contributions + Applying & Informing ResearchResearch
- 9. Mission Worldwide digital publishers and their partners who are interested in future technologies and processes for GILT. Relevant well-researched content rich information on future trends and technologies. A unique industry and academic collaboration which provides an unparalleled network of expertise The LRC at UL is the focal point and the research and educational centre for the localisation communities. Empowering Language Communities
- 10. Background • Established in 1995 with support from the Irish Government (Ireland = the world’s largest exporter of software) • Academic activities • Funded research (EU, Industry, SFI) • Postgraduate teaching (innovative, flexible, adapted to learners needs) • Localisation Focus – The International Journal for Localisation • Annual Conference (strong academic-industry links) • Annual Summer School (linking theory and practice) • Industry collaboration • 20-person strong Industrial Advisory Board, representing digital publishers, tools developers and service providers, among them: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Symantec, Twitter, …
- 13. Building Bridges • Breaking out of silos • Looking beyond the horizon • Challenging established paradigms • Applying revolutionary approaches Research Teaching Practice
- 15. Activities
- 16. Annual LRC Localisation Summer School 2011 - Computer and Video Games Localisation 2012 – Mobile Application Dev & Localisation 12th LRC Summer School Limerick, 20-24 May 2013 Research Day Master Class 1: Lesser-Resourced Language Localisation: The Long Tail Networking and Sightseeing Master Class 2: Terminology New and Future Developments www.localisation.ie
- 17. Annual LRC Internationalisation and Localisation Conference 2009: L10N in the Cloud 2010: Brave New World 2011: Vertical vs. Virtual 18th LRC Conference, Limerick 23-25 Sept. 2013 The Future of Localisation: Commercial, Government, Educational, and Civil Society Sectors. www.localisation.ie
- 18. Localisation Focus The International Journal for Localisation • Established in 1995 • The only peer- reviewed and indexed international localisation journal • General and Special Issues (e.g. on CNGL) http://www.localisation.ie/resources/locfocus/index.htm
- 19. MSc in Multilingual Computing and Localisation (Distance Learning) • One year taught programme • Four modules per semester and dissertation during summer • 2 weeks on campus (exam week and summer school) www.localisation.ie/education
- 20. Empowering Language Communities to provide nonmarket social localisation • Founded in 2009 • Translation Commons (www.trommons.org) • >3,200 volunteers and >40 organisations • Nonprofit Charity
- 21. Action for Global Information Sharing (AGIS) AGIS Africa Promoting African Language Localisation • UNECA, UL GALA, The Rosetta Foundation • Launched 19 November 2012, University of Limerick) • 2013/14: Pilot 5 African Students, fully funded • Replicate in other regions Business Strategies – Localisation Technologies – Industry Mentorships
- 22. NONMARKET SOCIAL LOCALISATION 2012-2013 €100,000 Investment Programme Staff Development Team Case Study
- 23. (Non)Market Localisation US$30 billion • Mainstream • Short-term financial ROI • Translated.com • 15 languages = 90% of world’s customers = 2 billion people • Storyful - Bloomberg US$0 • Social Localisation • Long-term social RoI • Ethnologue.org • 6,985 languages = 70% of world’s citizens = 5 billion people • Global Voices
- 24. Market of 2 billion customers Nonmarketof 5 billion People $ The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
- 25. No Traditional Business Case but Strong Motivation
- 26. Enterprise User Community, Social, and Demand-driven Corporate, Controlled, and Strategic “To empower innovative community, social, and nonmarket localisation efforts driving the most significant growth opportunity for the industry”
- 27. Service-Oriented Localisation Architecture Solution • University Limerick • LRC • CNGL Research • UL -> The Rosetta Foundation • Open Source LGPL (~M4LOC, ~OKAPI) License • Users • Steering Committee • Support & Sponsorship Deployment Launched 18 March 2013
- 28. UI • Minimalistic • Intuitive Match • Task Stream • User Adapted Admin • Self-Managed • Transparent Data • Open Standard-Based • Interoperable Localisation = Utility ? =
- 29. WELCOME TO TROMMONS The Translation Commons Powered by:Co-ordinated by: • Open • Owned by everybody • Cannot be commoditised • Inclusive • Widely shared ownership • All assets preserved (regardless of return of capital)
- 30. The Nonmarket • Localisation on-demand, for communities– by communities (supported by technology) • Huge volumes (content, languages) and needs • Nonprofit companies create 20% more employment than for-profit (per dollar). • Nonmarket develops the markets of the future (resources, capacity) • In the US, the nonprofit sector has revenues of US$1.9 trillion, more than gas and oil combined.
- 31. Building Bridges Mutual Respect Partnership of Equals Practitioners Academics Commercial Civil Society Opportunities Capacity Building
- 32. 2013-2016 Teaching Open Distance Learning Professional Development Programmes Research Community Workflows and Support Technologies Diversification of Research Partnerships Practice SOLAS Translation Commons Building Bridges Empowering Language Communities
Editor's Notes
- 29 April 2013
- The design for the main entrance at the University of Limerick is the outcome of an open architectural competition sponsored by the University in 1996. The entrance comprises three elements; the landscape, the masts and the sculpture. The commission to build the new entrance is the outcome of an open archiectural competition sponsored by the University in 1996.A triangular lawn, approximately 150m wide by 150 deep banked by yew hedges makes the setting for the new entrance landscape. A long yew hedge on the South side of Plassey Park road forms the third side of this new space and completes the garden, enclosing the road. Two huge timber flag poles, 35m high and visible from Limerick City and from the Dublin road to Limerick, mark for the approaching visitor the gateway to the University campus.In the competition entry the Architects drew the stone monument of the landscape design of Geoffrey Jellicoe at Sutton Place with the Ben Nicholson white wall sculpture, and advised that the painter Sean Scully should be asked to make his proposal for a stone monument at Limerick University. Five years on and after much consideration, Sean Scully's sculpture entitled ‘CrannSoilse' was realised.The sculpture is made from 2'6" stone cubes, stacked 3 cubes wide by 4 cubes high and 40 cubes long. This amounts to a total of 480 stone cubes; 240 Chinese black basalt cubesand 240 Portuguese white moleanos limestone cubes, stacked in a chequerboard arrangement. The sculpture is assembled on a concrete base set within a low grass mound at the entrance to the University. The project was completed in 2 stages; the masts in 1999 and the sculpture in 2003.
- Silos: Research, Teaching, PracticeHorizon: Why it is done today – where do we want to go, what do we want to achieveParadigms: What is being done today – languages, contentApproaches: How it is done today – annual efficiency improvement: technologyGoogle for pictures: software engineer vs translator
- Kevin Scannell, University of St LoiusMark Childress, SAP
- Commercial, government, educational, and civil society sectors all require access to language services. While some of their requirements can be different, there are many overlaps. LRC X8, for the first time, will bring these four sectors together getting them out of their silos and opening up new horizons.
- The Rosetta Foundation empowers language communities who provide access to information and knowledge across language boundaries, independent of economic, social, political, or geographical considerations. The Foundation supports their work fighting poverty, and working for better education, justice, health care and economic well-being in a variety of ways, among them through its AGIS Africa programme and its open source SOLAS project. SOLAS powers the Translation Commons, Trommons, the language services 'dating' site for nonmarket social translation and localisation. The Rosetta Foundation, a nonprofit organization registered as a charity in Ireland, is a University of Limerick campus company. It is directed by its elected board, and supported by its 30+ person strong Advisory Council of international experts in translation and localization. It empowers the work of thousands of volunteers providing language services to dozens of nonprofit communities.
- No continuityNot doing what we have been doing for the past 25 years, just faster, cheaper, better. This triangle works for accountants, nor for visionaries