CNGL secures €19.8m to fund intelligent content research

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7 October 2013

The CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content has secured a total of €13.5 million from public and private sources to continue its research. CNGL is an academia-industry research consortium dedicated to delivering disruptive technologies like multilingual content analysis. It is led by Trinity College Dublin and co-hosted by Dublin City University.

Now entering its second funding cycle supported by Science Foundation Ireland, to date CNGL has produced seven spinout companies, raised €1.25 million in venture capital and created 30 jobs.

As well as receiving funding from the exchequer and EU, CNGL has the backing of several industry partners include Microsoft, Symantec, Intel, McAfee, Cisco, DNP, Xanadu, Welocalize, Alchemy Software Development, and VistaTEC.

Prof Vincent Wade of CNGL said: "Content is the lifeblood of an organisation, and savvy companies view content as a strategic asset… We are experiencing massive growth in volume of content being generated – there are now over 175 million tweets sent per day – and an ever expanding variety of devices on which people access this content.

 

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"Globally, companies, individuals and communities are increasingly seeking content and services to be delivered according to their own needs, context and preferences and in their own language… CNGL is helping companies to make the most of their content in order to engage with their global customers better than ever before, tailor information and delivery strategies to enable global reach markets, detect fraud, manage risk, personalise education programmes, and deliver multilingual customer care."

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