Vol 1 Issue 5 (pdf – 3.53MB) - CNGL

Welcome to:In BriefSTAFF NEWSPUBLICATIONSCNGL enjoys considerablesuccess with researchpublicaons. To view fulldetails of our publicaonshistory, and to downloadcopies of our publicaons, visit:www.cngl.ie/researchpub.htmlFUNDING AWARDSTHIS QUARTER Zinopy Ltd. InnovaonVoucher received byDeirdre Hogan of DCU £4,514 grant receivedfrom the Welsh LanguageBoard to design andexecute an evaluaon taskfor different MT vendors,and to develop a linguiscdiagnosc evaluaontoolkit for Welsh EI Innovaon PartnershipProject of 15 months’duraon awarded toDeirdre Hogan of DCU,value €230,000 IRCSET PhD sponsorship inconjuncon withSymantec, value €72,000 EAMT Award to AntonioToral of DCU, value€2,000Amelie Dorn, who has joined TCD as PhD Lorraine Goeuriot, who joins DCU ascandidate under the supervision of Ailbhe Ní Postdoctoral Researcher on the CNGL-affiliatedChasaide.Kreshmoi project.Farewell to:Özlem Çetinoğlu, Postdoctoral Researcher with ILT3, who departed DCU recentlyto join the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung at Universität StuttgartCongratulations to:Asanka Wasala, LOC PhD candidate at UL, who became a dad to babySiluni last month. Best wishes to Asanka and his wife Menaka.Stephen Doherty of ILT, who successfully defended his PhD in November.Stephen was supervised by Dr Dorothy Kenny and Dr Sharon O’Brien at DCU.Tsuyoshi Okita of ILT, who completed his PhD viva this quarter under thesupervision of Prof. Andy Way at DCU.METADATA GROUPThe CNGL Metadata Group (MDG) aims demonstraon systems of CNGL.to work towards collecng, recordingThe Metadata Group has modeled theand documenng the usage andcollaborave research conducted in CNGLapplicaon of metadata across the demonstratortheorecally, instanated it into electronicsystems and research conducted as part of CNGL.Previous experiments have been conducted intodocumenng and building semanc models ofCNGL in terms of content, services and properes.The results of this work proved highly useful forvisualising the overall informaon flow in CNGL.models, and is deploying these models at thecore of demonstraon research. This researchaims to e together research systems andprovide a framework for data sharing, mark‐upand expansion. Evaluaon of such an approachwill be conducted via use‐cases that highlight theThe Metadata Group is currently applying ability to query across the models and thuselectronic versions of these conceptual models in anumber of different demonstraon systems. Thisresearch is being conducted to link together thedemonstrate the linking of collaborave researchthat was previously paroned via their usage oftechnology but linked through their CNGL‐widedifferent demonstrators, through common semancs.semancs. By using Resource DescriponFor more informaon, contactFramework (RDF) modeling, similaries and sharedDominic.Jones@cs.tcd.ie.resources can be quanfied across the differentwww.cngl.ie 7