From Inspiration to Commercialization
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From Inspiration to Commercialization
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Issue 4 October 2006 |
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| New Appointments to LTRC Committees | ||||
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The LTRC is pleased to announce new appointments to its two main committees. Strategic Steering Committee (SSC) Christiane Melançon, Director, Department of Language Studies, UQO, has chaired the SDC since August 30, 2006, and will hold this position for one year. Communications Committee France Fouquette, Information Officer and Chief-Editor, UQO, has chaired the Communications committee since September 27, 2006, and will hold this position for one year. Our thanks go out to Daniel Vincent for having chaired these two committees from their inception in the summer of 2004. A brief description of the role of the LTRC committees will be posted on the LTRC website this December.
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| The Directory of Terminologists Practising in Canada Is Finally Here! | ||||
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These terminology enthusiasts are eager to unveil the on-line directory, which will be accessible from the LTRC’s Web site. The JCTC – a multi-sectoral partnership composed of university, private sector and Government of Canada’s Translation Bureau representatives – is committed to promoting the terminology profession in Canada, and the creation of the Directory is a step toward achieving that goal. This one-of-a-kind resource will help to raise awareness of the profession across the country. Get ready, fellow language professionals: the Directory is finally here!
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| Leverage Your Business: Think Language 2nd Language Industry Showcase |
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On November 29, AILIA will be holding the second edition of its Language Industry Showcase, whose theme this year is "Leverage your business: think language." The showcase will gather representatives of translation agencies, language schools and language technology businesses under one roof, along with purchasers of language services from the pharmaceutical and financial sectors and the Government of Canada, among others. The Language Industry Showcase offers a unique opportunity to find solutions for your needs, and an exceptional means of promoting your products and services. Visit showcase.ailia.ca for more information.
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| The NRC participates in the European project SMART | ||||
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The Interactive Language Technologies Group of NRC just begun its participation in the European project SMART (Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation), led by XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe). This project involves three companies and seven R&D organizations, including NRC. The SMART project, which brings together experts in machine learning and statistical machine translation (SMT), aims at exploring new avenues for innovations in SMT. For details, see: http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_IST
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| Open Source Software licensing: an up-to-date summary | ||||
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Open Source Software (OSS), a regular topic of heated discussions, are increasing their penetration beyond IT infrastructure (Linux, Apache, etc.) into everyday applications aimed at end users (Firefox, Open Office, Wiki, etc.). Several governments and organizations are now in the process of migrating from proprietary software to OSS and open standards for their daily operations. A recent book on OSS licensing by Larry Rosen ('Open Source Licensing – Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law', 2005, 397 pp.), a founder and Emeriti Counsel of OSI (the Open Source Initiative), describes the various types of OSS licences and analyses in detail the legal aspects of the major OSS licence models. In order to make the content of this reference work more palatable to programmers, researchers, and technology transfer practitioners, Michel Mellinger (NRC) has prepared a summary of Larry Rosen’s book – under an open content licence, of course. This summary is available on request (Michel.Mellinger@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca), in PDF format.
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The LTRC thanks the readers of Cybermag-TL for their interest and for helping to disseminate the newsletter. This online information magazine, which is also posted on the LTRC’s website, is designed to keep language industry and information technology partners and stakeholders up to date with the latest news from the LTRC. Please continue to spread the word among your colleagues, and contact us with your feedback, suggestions and comments!
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On October 24, the LTRC will welcome the members of the Joint Committee on Terminology in Canada (JCTC) at the official launch of the Directory of Terminologists Practising in Canada.