As with the previous events, the workshop will bring together speakers and participants with an interest in best practices and standards aimed at helping content creators, localizers, tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved.

Unlike the previous events, the speaker sessions will all take place on the first day, and the morning of the second day will be devoted to discussion on the various topics raised so far.

While the themes for this workshop remain broad, we would particularly encourage contributions related to standards and best practices aimed at localization of Web content. As before, we are looking for a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from blogs and social networking sites to localization of large corporate or organizational enterprises.

We are particularly interested in speakers who can identify gaps in current standards and best practices related to the mutilingual Web, and propose opportunities for addressing those. With these workshops, the European Commission wishes to promote widespread adoption of novel, innovative solutions, workflows and approaches, and stimulate discussion on and concrete proposals for future EU-funded actions in the field of multilingual technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

The workshop is expected to attract a broad set of stakeholders, including managers and practitioners working in the areas of content development, design, localization, and production management; developers of tools such as translation tools, content management systems, editors, etc; researchers and developers working with language technology and resources; browser implementors; standards and industry body representatives; and many more. The interchange of information and perspectives from this diverse group is expected to provide a more thorough picture of the existing landscape for multilingualism on the Web, and was one of the successes of the previous workshops.

The workshop is co-located with the 16th Annual LRC Conference, which will start in the afternoon of 22 September, and continue on the following day. See the home page for the LRC Conference.

If you wish to also attend the LRC Conference, you will need to register for both events. (See above.)

Venue, hotels, and other workshop logistics

Important dates

See the top of this page.

Workshop Venue

Getting there

How to reach Limerick

By plane

• Shannon International Airport, located some 16 miles from the University campus, provides direct scheduled air services to Dublin and Belfast, London, Birmingham, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Washington and Boston.

By train

• Regular rail services connect Limerick with Dublin, Cork, Tralee, Killarney, and (via Dublin) with Belfast, Sligo and Westport. See the Iarnród Eireann timetable

How to reach the Workshop location

By car

• From Limerick City: Take the Dublin Road out of the city and travel approx two miles to the Parkway roundabout. Go straight through at this roundabout. At the next roundabout, turn left and the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel is situated just 200 yards up the road on the right hand side.
• From Dublin/Nenagh: Leave the M7 at junction 28 then at the roundabout take the 3rd exit onto Dublin Road - R445 (signposted Limerick). After the village of Annacotty, go through two roundabouts and two sets of traffic lights when you arrive at the next roundabout take the third exit to the right. The Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel is situated just 200 yards up the road on the right hand side.
• From Cork/Kerry: Before Patrickswell, take the Limerick exit off the Croom Bypass. Follow the signs for Dublin & M7. Leave the M7 at junction 28, then at the roundabout take the 1st exit onto Dublin Road R445 (signposted Limerick). After the village of Annacotty, go through two roundabouts and two sets of traffic lights when you arrive at the next roundabout take the third exit to the right. The Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel is situated just 200 yards up the road on the right hand side.

By bus

• There is a regular bus service between the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel and the city centre. The bus stop is located just opposite the hotel and a ticket costs €1.20. At the bus stop near the Centra shop in William St. take the bus for the University or Plassey (usually a no.308 or no.302 bus). See the Daily Bus Eireann Timetable.

By taxi

• Taxi services from Shannon Airport to Limerick town centre cost on average € 25.
• Taxis are available from the Train Station and City Centre to the University and cost on average €8/9.
• A taxi from Shannon Airport costs on average €45 approximately. Car Hire services are also available from the airport.

Hotel

A special rate has been negotiated at Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel, where the workshop will take place.

The rates are:

• Single €75.00 B&B per night
• Executive rooms €85.00 B&B per night
• Twin room per person sharing €45.00 B&B

To book a room call +353 61 335566 and to obtain the special rates please be sure to tell them that you are attending the LRC Conference when making your booking.

Contact

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Deliverables

Workshop sessions and documents will be in English. After the event presentations, minutes and the workshop report will be made available to the public, linked from the project site.

Chair

• Richard Ishida, W3C

Local Organizing Committee

• Reinhard Schäler, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Karl Kelly, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Geraldine Harrahill, University of Limerick, Ireland

Program Committee

• Luis Bellido, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Eric Blassin, Lionbridge Belgium
• Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benitez, European Commission, Directorate-General for Translation, Luxembourg
• Claudio Chiavetta, Lionbridge Belgium
• David Clarke, Transware Ltd (WeLocalize), Ireland
• Rahzeb Choudhury, TAUS, Netherlands
• Marko Grobelnik, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
• Ghassan Haddad, Facebook, USA
• Timo Honkela, Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio, Finland
• Richard Ishida, W3C, UK
• Pål Eivind Jacobsen Nes, Opera Software, Norway
• Jiří Kosek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
• Christian Lieske, SAP AG, Germany
• Arle Lommel, LISA, Switzerland
• Andrea Marchetti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software, Norway
• Monica Monachini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Jan Nelson, Microsoft Corporation, USA
• Chiara Pacella, Facebook Ireland
• Encarna Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Spiridon Pilos, European Commission, Directorate-General for Translation, Luxembourg
• Adriane Rinsche, Language Technology Centre Ltd, UK
• Felix Sasaki, DFKI / University of appl. Sciences Potsdam, Germany
• Reinhard Schäler, The University of Limerick, Language Resource Centre, Ireland
• Dag Schmidtke, Microsoft Ireland
• Jörg Schütz, Bioloom Group, Germany
• Tadej Štajner, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
• Dan Tufis, Institutul de Cercetari Pentru Inteligenti Artificiala, Romania
• Cristina Valdés Rodríguez, University of Oviedo (ILTO), Spain
• Jaap van der Meer, TAUS, Netherlands
• Andrzej Zydroń, XML-INTL, UK