School of Compuing CSETs, CNGL and CLARITY exhibiting at ESOF 2010

Posted Thu, 08/07/2010 - 16:53 by gconway
CNGL and Clarity at ESOF 2010Prof. Frank Gannon (SFI Director General) with Cara Greene and visitors at the CNGL stand

The School of Computing SFI funded CSETs, CNGL and CLARITY are exhibiting at Science in the City as part of the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 (ESOF 2010). Both centres were selected from many different research centres across Europe to exhibit at this prestigious outreach event.

The Euroscience Open Forum 2010, taking place in Turin from the 2-7 July, is one of the most important events for showcasing scientific research.

CNGL signs MOU for research collaboration with Japan's NICT Institute

Posted Mon, 28/06/2010 - 16:55 by gconway

DCU, on behalf of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for research collaboration with Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT) in Tokyo.

CNGL-NICT signingThis Memorandum of Understanding for research collaboration with NICT is part of CNGL's strategic objective to strengthen relationships with international partners and to develop new opportunities for research collaboration in areas underpinning Next Generation Localisation.

Professor Josef van Genabith, Director of the CNGL at DCU's School of Computing, led the CNGL delegation which included Dr. Páraic Sheridan, CNGL Operations Director, Mr. Richard Stokes, CEO of DCU INVENT and Mr. Takeshi Fukunaga head of the Global Meta Media Division of Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), an industrial partner of CNGL based in Tokyo.

Prof. van Genabith said, "We are particularly pleased to sign this agreement to deepen the relationship between Ireland and Japan in the research and development of computing technologies in areas such as language, speech, and digital content personalisation which are becoming increasingly important."

School of Computing, Final Year Projects Expo 2010 a great success

Posted Mon, 28/06/2010 - 16:17 by gconway

fyp banner

For over 20 years the School of Computing, DCU have run an event to promote and celebrate their final year graduates on the BSc in Computer Applications course. This year the event took place in the Helix and was attended by some of Ireland's well recognised computing/IT companies such as Google Ireland, Amazon, IBM, AIB, Accenture, and many more. The guest speaker Mr. Padraig McKeon from 'Ireland Your Country Your Call' who is also a DCU graduate and Trustee, gave an inspiring and motivating speech to all, focusing on how our graduating students with the specific knowledge and skills they have in computing and future technology have the chance to focus on new opportunities even within the current economic climate.

CNGL launch World Cup 'Twanslation' Service

Posted Tue, 08/06/2010 - 16:44 by gconway

John, Riona, Maria using CNGL's 'Twanslation' Service

CNGL researchers have developed a system to allow football fans follow World Cup tweets on Twitter in their own language. The CNGL Twanslator:World Cup 2010 project is being coordinated by Prof. Andy Way from the School of Computing in DCU (Track leader for Integrated Language Technologies / Machine Translation CNGL - DCU) and Dr Declan Dagger (CNGL TCD).

Natural boundaries exist within Twitter based on spoken languages - typically you are only connected to people who communicate in a language you understand. Twanslator WC 2010 is an attempt to filter the information streams on Twitter during the world cup into a number of different languages and create match summaries. CNGL is collaborating with the SFI CLARITY centre on aspects on this work.

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