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| Title: | R&D | |||
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| Date of publishing: | March 28, 2011 | |||
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R&D
With its professional arsenal accumulated through a dozen years of international experience, the global cApStAn family is ready to put its expertise to use in new projects, developing specific solutions in each case.
We find much pleasure in using what we already know, adapting our methods to new tasks. But we are even happier to test our experience, knowledge and skills in finding solutions to problems we have not encountered before.
For example: cApStAn has conducted a study (with a double translation and reconciliation design) to identify patterns in translation/adaptation issues specific to non Indo-European languages, drawn up an empirical framework of verifier intervention categories, prepared tutorials to raise awareness of translatability issues in item writers. Such activities require participation in conferences and workshops, publications and state of the art reviews, and cApStAn has relied on active participation of its extended network to stay abreast of new developments.
Our largest current research project, Very Fire 0.1, is a computer-aided verification tool: a number of routines involved in verification can be automated, and the open-source application used for this purpose can provide a wealth of information to verifiers and end users. In cooperation with information scientists and linguists, we are working on a user-friendly environment that makes a large number of localisation operations easier for all parties involved, and in which the translation, adaptation and verification history of each item is documented in a single file, which "travels" together with the item itself.
RECENT PUBLICATION: http://www.localisation.ie/resources/locfocus/LocalisationFocusVol10Issue1_online.pdf
in The International Journal of Localisation, Vol. 10 Issue 1:
Britta Upsing, Gabriele Gissler, Frank Goldhammer, Heiko Rölke and Andrea Ferrari:
Localisation in International Large-scale Assessments of Competencies: Challenges and Solutions
"In its communicative function, language is a set of tools with which we attempt to guide another mind to create within itself a mental representation that approximates the one we have."