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Location: Terrace [...]]]> The Translation Technology and the Digital Economy conferenece is a joint conference between Bangor and Swansea Universities, sponsored by the CATCymru Project (SALT Cymru’s sister project).

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Location: Terrace Conference Room, Main Arts, Bangor University, 14.01.2011 10am-4.00pm

10.00 – Registration, Coffee and Launch of Poster Session

11.00 am – Opening remarks by Alun Ffred Jones, Minister for Culture and the Welsh Language

11.15 am – Website localization: global perspectives and the Welsh reality – Dr Tegau Andrews (LTU Terminologist and project manager for Welsh-medium Higher Education Terminology)

11.45 – Welsh Translators and Language Technology: An analysis of Recent Questionnaire Results – Gareth Watkins (PhD researcher, Swansea University)

12.15 – Improving subtitling quality and efficiency with automated processes – Llio Humphreys (KTP Associate, Testun)

12.45 – 1.30 Lunch and poster session

1.30 – Translation and Cultural Policies in Galicia: a case study from another European region – Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira (Director of the MA Course in Translation Studies and of the Centre for Galician Studies at Bangor University)

2.00 pm – Changing landscape of translation technology (Prof. Andy Rothwell, Swansea University)

2.30 – Demonstration of a new suite of TM tools for the Welsh translator’s workstation* – David Chan (Software engineer and Research fellow, CAT Cymru project)

3.00 – Coffee and awarding of prizes for best posters

3.30 – Panel discussion: what does industry want from translators in Wales?

4.00 – Close of conference

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* All conference participants will receive a memory stick containing the new CAT tool at the conference

Specific categories can be navigated to by using the links in the [...]]]> The following is a selected portfolio of various products and services produced by the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University.

Specific categories can be navigated to by using the links in the index below, or simply scroll down to read the page in its entirety. See the Language Technologies Unit’s Research Resources page for the Unit’s academic research resources.

Index
Place-names
Language Games
General Dictionaries
Terminology Dictionaries
Text Proofing (Spelling and Grammar)
Language Improvement Lessons
Accessibility
Text to Speech

Place-names
Enwau Cymru – Need to know whether a Welsh form exists for an English place-name in Wales, or vice versa? This website for you. It gives the details of the parish, traditional county and the unitary authority of the place in question, as well as providing a sound file with the correct pronunciation of some of the most prominent names found in Wales. It also identifies the location of the place-name on a map – very useful when you need to distinguish between the three existing Newports in Wales whilst translating!

"Newport" on Enwau Cymru

Melville Richards Archive – a database of the historical forms of place-names in Wales, intended for scholarly research into the meaning and origin of names.

'Caernarfon' in the Melville Richards Archive

Language Games
Ieithgi – 6 Welsh-language games produced for the BBC’s website. These are designed for fluent Welsh speakers.

Gemau Ieithgi ar gyfer y BBC

RaW Cymru – a selection of simple Welsh-language games produced for the BBC’s website that are aimed at consumers who are not confident writers of Welsh. (Games No. 1, 3, 5 and 7 only).

RaW Cymru Games

General English / Welsh Dictionaries
Cysgair - Cysgair is the general English / Welsh dictionary included in the Cysgeir suite of dictionaries found in the Cysgliad package of Welsh software tools for Windows. It features advanced search algorithms that will display the relevant entry if your search word is a mutated form  (eg ‘redeg’), a verb form (eg ’rhedais’), or is plural form (such as ‘rhedwyr’).

Results for "rhedeg" in Cysgair

Learn Welsh Dictionary – this is a dictionary for learners of Welsh created for the BBC website. It shares many of the same features as the Cysgair dictionary, above.

Learn Welsh Dictionary (for the BBC)

Lexicelt - An Irish/Welsh Dictionary and Phrasebook. The website also includes an introduction to both languages’ grammar as well as sound files that accompany the texts for the various dialects.

Lexicelt Phrasebook

Text Proofing
Cysill - a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker that does more than just correct spelling errors. It can identify grammatical errors such as incorrect mutation and suggest corrections. It also includes a thesaurus and a very useful feature that checks the conjugations of verbs. Cysill is part of the Cysgliad package for computers running Windows.

Grammar Proofing in Cysill

Cysill Online – a free, online version of Cysill (see above), in the form of a website that can be accessed from anywhere on any computer running a modern browser.

Proofing Grammar on Cysill Ar-lein (Cysill Online)

Microsoft Word (and Office) Spellchecker – the Language Technologies Unit is responsible for producing the Welsh spellchecker that Microsoft provides free of charge to users of Microsoft Word. You can download the package from this link. Once installed, and with Welsh selected as the document language, the words that are not identified as correctly-spelled Welsh words are underlined with a red wavy line. Right-clicking on these words displays a list of suggested corrections.

Proofing Welsh text in Microsoft Word

MySpell - an open source spell checker that can be used with popular open source programs like OpenOffice.org and Firefox.

Accessibility
EdGair - a simple word processor for Welsh users with dyslexia. It includes a Welsh-language interface and the Language Technologies Unit’s synthetic voice which pronounces words as they are typed.

EdGair - a simple word processor for Welsh users with dyslexia.

(See also the section on ‘Text to Speech)

Terminology Dictionaries
Porth Termau – an easy to use online Terminology Portal featuring the terminology dictionaries produced by the Language Technologies Unit. It features advanced search algorithms that displays the relevant dictionary entry even if your search word is a mutated form  (eg ‘redeg’), a verb form (eg ’rhedais’), or a plural form (such as ‘rhedwyr’).

The results for a search for "wisgoedd" (a form of "gwisg") in the Porth Termau

Welsh National Database of Terms – a website featuring a number of terminology dictionaries commissioned by the Welsh Language Board.

Welsh National Database of Terms (commissioned by the Welsh Language Board)

Y Termiadur – the entire content of the terminological dictionary for the Welsh-medium education curriculum in one easily searchable website. This dictionary is also available on CD ROM and in hardcopy, and can be downloaded onto mobile phones.

Online bilingual Terminology Dictionary for schools in Wales

Language Improvement Lessons
Cymarfer CS – An online language improvement course for formal written Welsh, including automatically marked tests that complement the individual lessons. Cymarfer CS was developed for the Cynllun Sabothol.

Cymarfer CS - a Language Course for Formal Written Welsh

Text to Speech
WISPR Welsh Voice – a Welsh synthetic voice developed by the Language Technologies Unit as part of the WISPR project . The project’s development resources were released under an open BSD license. This has allowed commercial companies such as Bitlips to build on the work undertaken at Bangor University’s Language Technologies Unit to produce improved commercial Welsh voices based on the data and audio files from the WISPR project. You can listen to the Bitlips’ voice, ‘Owen’ by clicking on the ‘Listen’ button at the top of this article.

Welsh and Irish Speech Processing Resources (WISPR)

Keynote speaker: Kara Warburton, Chair of ISO TC37 [...]]]> Terminology and Other Language Resources for Welsh Industry
A half-day conference by the SALT Cymru network at Bangor University, March 15, 2010

Keynote speaker: Kara Warburton, Chair of ISO TC37 and Head of Terminology IBM.
Location: Business Management Centre, College Road, Bangor University

Event Programme

1.30 Registration and coffee

2.00 “Why are terminology and other language and content resources important for industry?” – Kara Warburton, Chair ISO TC37 and Head of Terminology, IBM

3.00 “Internationalized English for international communication” – Mike Unwalla, Principal, TechScribe

3.30 “Persuading Welsh businesses to export multilingually” – David Chan, Project Officer, CAT Cymru

4.00 The launch of three new websites:

• SALT Cymru (the next generation)
• CAT Cymru (Computer Aided Translation project)
• Wales National Terminology Portal

4.30 Light refreshments and networking opportunity

5.00 Close