A community of world-class linguists, translation technologists and subject matter experts manages the language component of your multilingual projects
In technology-rich environments, we combine premium language services and assets to meet your translation requirements.
Before your master version is final and before translation begins, we help you set up processes to ensure cultural appropriateness and linguistic equivalence.
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We produce gold standard language versions of high stakes content, using state of the art technology and the world's best translators.
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We certify translatability of source content; we verify and validate translations; we audit and document translation and adaptation processes.
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Working closely with research institutes, we shape, improve and disseminate good practice in test and survey localization at conferences, in webinars and in publications.
Read more >In education, training and certification programs, knowledge and skills need to be measured, often internationally.
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Understanding society requires well-crafted surveys. The data collected with social and attitudinal surveys helps many stakeholders make informed decisions.
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In multiregional and multicultural contexts, translation and adaptation of surveys focus on cross-cultural relevance to capture consumer experience.
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Opinion polls take the pulse of a target population. They are predictive or measure public reaction to events or situations.
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Assessments that gauge workforce skills, screen job applicants or measure management performance globally are high-stakes instruments.
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International Organizations and NGOs have specific communication needs, which include conveying sensitive content to groups that may be culturally different.
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Clients become partners and partners become clients: we work closely together with different stakeholders to connect the dots between measurement goals, translation and quality assurance.
Cooperation with universities is in our DNA: researcher Aletta Grisay from ...
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The OECD Directorate for Education and Skills http://www.oecd.org/edu/ is committed ...
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Test developers, questionnaire item writers and psychometricians design data collection instruments. ...
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Partnerships with research institutes are key to our strategy of fostering ...
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In the feasibility study for the Assessment of Higher Education Learning ...
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On the one hand, cApStAn’s translation technologists need to work with ...
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Postponed due to COVID-19. New dates for virtual conference to be announced.
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Postponed due to COVID-19. New dates for virtual conference to be announced.
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The Tool Box Journal is a Newsletter by Jost Zetzsche, who writes objective, independent reviews of any new tools that potentially make linguists' tasks simpler. Jost is first and foremost a freelance translator: he has all the hands-on experience you can get, and his analysis of new applications and functionalities is focussed and relevant. The Basic Edition is for free, but it really is worthwhile to subscribe to the Premium version. Enjoy!
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cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control is the language service provider with a holistic approach to translation and adaptation of multilingual assessments and surveys. cApStAn also stands for a certain lifestyle and spirit: “excellence among friends”, as one of the founding partners likes to put it. Over the past ...
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