The following talks will be held as part of Dublin Innovation Festival. All are welcome to attend.
LINGLE: NEXT GENERATION OF ONLINE LANGUAGE LEARNING TOOLS
DIT School of Computing lecturers Dr. John Kelleher, Dr. Brian McNamee and Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick present a talk on Lingle - a web-based service designed for teachers and learners of English. Lingle helps teachers automatically find and build complete lesson plans and materials from authentic real news sources. It uses cutting edge advances in machine learning and computational linguistics research to automatically highlight grammar in use and vocabulary. This talk describes the computer science research from which Lingle was developed and how it is helping to transform language learning and teaching.
Wednesday 19/10/2011, 7pm K208
Tea/coffee will be served after the talk
TUNEPAL: TRACKING TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC AROUND THE WORLD USING MOBILE APPS AND GOOGLE MAPS
Dr. Bryan Duggan, DIT School of Computing will discuss Tunepal, winner of the DIT Best Invention 2010 and the world's leading search engine for traditional Irish music. Tunepal enables musicians to search over 17,000 music scores by playing a phrase of music on a traditional instrument such as flute or accordion. Having originally emerged from Bryan's PhD research, it is now available online and as mobile apps for iPhone and Android devices. By tracking its use Bryan shows in this talk how Irish music has become a global cultural phenomenon.
Wednesday 26/10/2011, 7pm K208
