The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a dynamic Academia-Industry partnership with over 100 researchers developing novel technologies addressing key challenges of Localisation. It is one of ten large-scale Centres for Science Engineering and Technology (CSETs) funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

Language barriers continue to constitute a formidable obstacle to the free flow of information, products and services in an increasingly globalised economy and information society. "Localisation" refers to the process of adapting digital content to culture, locale and linguistic environments at high quality and speed.

Our objective is to produce substantial advances in the basic and applied research underpinning the 'Next Generation Localisation Factory'. We aim to revolutionise localisation via breakthroughs in automation, composition and integration, focusing on:

• Integrated machine translation technology,
• Speech-based interfaces and more personalised speech output,
• Multilingual digital content management for personalised multilingual content access and delivery,
• Localisation workflows and systems integration.

Our work is guided by the vision of enabling people to interact with content, products and services in their own language, according to their own culture, and according to their own personal needs.

Keywords:

Localisation; Automation; Composition; Integration; Translation; Speech Output; Multilingual