Mavis Cournane is a Principle Consultant with Cognitran Limited. She has a PhD in History and Computer Science from the National University of Ireland. The focus of her dissertation was “The Application of SGML/TEI to Multilingual Text Processing”. The dissertation involved processing Irish, Hebrew, Greek, Norse, Norman French and German texts.

Mavis has previously worked for The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, an EU Institute, where she managed the project to get all of the multilingual information into an XML repository.

At Cognitran Limited, Mavis is heavily involved in XML Automotive projects involving the translation of XML based technical information into a variety of languages. She also leads the Cognitran Translation Services Agent (TSA) project. This is a web-based application that allows translators to perform Translations in a browser-based environment, while availing of the benefits of a Translation Memory.

Mavis has a particular interest in the development of standards for e-Business. She currently co-chairs the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) subcommittees for Naming and Design Rules (NDR) and Code Lists (CLSC).

Mavis is fluent in Irish, German and English.