Globalizing Twitter

Networking 6:30-7:00 PM, and after the talk as time allows.
Directions: map w/ parking and building location (PDF) (http://www.imug.org/groupon/groupon_imug_parking.pdf)

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Twitter is one of the world’s favorite open social networking platforms. Twitter conversations reflect the latest global trends, news, and events, as well as local and personal discussions. Real time conversations occur in different languages, so enabling a great multilingual user experience is key. In this talk, I will walk through language technologies and processes that help us at Twitter build a small world after all.

Alolita Sharma is senior engineering manager at Twitter, heading the company's internationalization, localization, NLP engineering. Alolita believes the web has to be fully “language enabled” to reach every human on the planet. Alolita has been working with and promoting open source software for more than two decades. She is on the board of the Software Freedom Law Center and is a past board member of the Open Source Initiative.

She holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science. Alolita speaks internationally on multilingual web, language technologies, open source, women in technology and building successful developer communities. She can be reached on Twitter @alolita (https://twitter.com/alolita).

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This talk will not be webcast but our hosts will try to record it, and if successful we will post the video link here, on social media, and in the IMUG.org archives (http://www.imug.org/events/imug-2015-events.htm).

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Many thanks to Bob Adkins and Groupon for hosting this talk!

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