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A community of world-class linguists, translation technologists and subject matter experts manages the language component of your multilingual projects

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Deepfake lip syncing technology could help translate film and TV without losing an actor’s original performance

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French government bans inclusive writing in schools but accepts other changes that feminize language

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“Anumeric” people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?

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The new Head of the UNICODE Emoji Subcommittee is advocating for more diverse and inclusive emoji

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The Leibniz Institute for German records 1,200+ new words in COVID-19 year vs 200 in an average year

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Dainas, four-line Latvian poems created over 1,000 years ago, are getting a new major English translation

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“Ableist” language receives renewed attention in the current debate on diversity, equity and inclusion

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Romance languages are rooted in a binary vision of the world: this poses challenges for educators seeking to create a more inclusive environment in the classroom

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Making the case for semicolons, the saddest, most unfairly represented victim of the current regime of punctuation austerity

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The added value of linguistic quality assurance

Ipsos Mori EU MIDIS

Translating Sensitive Survey Questions: Experiences of Discrimination in Europe

Join us on June 2nd for a live case study webinar, when Sara Grant-Vest (Research Director at Ipsos MORI) and Steve Dept (cApStAn) will share their stories of translating the European Fundamental Rights Agency’s 2nd European Union Minorities and Discrimination Study.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Bias Reduction

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Bias Reduction Consultancy

Fairness, validity and reliability are objectives that every testing organisation strives to address. The processes in place include bias review committees, SME reviews, focus groups and DIF analysis. cApStAn can help you take this step and to deploy processes that add value to established good practices...

A Brief Introduction to Translation Technology Standards, Tools & Best Practices

First of all what is a standard? According to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) standards “provide people and organizations with a basis for mutual understanding, and are used as tools to facilitate communication, measurement, commerce and manufacturing.”

What we do

In technology-rich environments, we combine premium language services and assets to meet your translation requirements.

Guide

Guide

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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Translate

Translate

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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Certify

Certify

We certify translatability of source content; we verify and validate translations; we audit and document translation and adaptation processes.

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Share

Working closely with research institutes, we shape, improve and disseminate good practice in test and survey localization at conferences, in webinars and in publications.

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In what field

Knowledge and Skills

In education, training and certification programs, knowledge and skills need to be measured, often internationally.

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Test Adaptation into multiple languages

Social and attitudinal surveys

Understanding society requires well-crafted surveys. The data collected with social and attitudinal surveys helps many stakeholders make informed decisions.

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Cross-cultural adaptation of questionnaires

Market research

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

Opinion polls take the pulse of a target population. They are predictive or measure public reaction to events or situations.

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Talent Management

Assessments that gauge workforce skills, screen job applicants or measure management performance globally are high-stakes instruments.

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psychometric test translation

NGOs and international organisations

International Organizations and NGOs have specific communication needs, which include conveying sensitive content to groups that may be culturally different.

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process of translation and adaptation of instruments
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With whom

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.

  • Universities
    Universities

    Universities

    Our guiding light for questionnaire validation methods and understanding ...

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  • The OECD
    The OECD

    The OECD

    OECD PISA and other large scale projects

     

    The ...

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  • Item developers
    Item developers

    Item developers

    Test developers, questionnaire item writers and psychometricians design data collection instruments. ...

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  • Research institutes
    Research institutes

    Research institutes

    Partnerships with research institutes are key to our strategy of fostering ...

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  • Freelance experts
    Freelance experts

    Freelance experts

    In the feasibility study for the Assessment of Higher Education Learning ...

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  • IT
    IT

    IT

    On the one hand, cApStAn’s translation technologists need to work with ...

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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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The evolution of socio-economic disparities in literacy skills ages 15-27 in 20 countries: a study recently published in the BERJ, British Educational Research Journal

Published in: Education, Surveys and Opinion Polls, Tests and Assessments

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Francesca Borgonovi, from University College London, UK and Artur Pokropek, Educational Research Institute (IBE), Warsaw, Poland, take a broader perspective on socio-economic disparities in educational achievement and attainment a very well-researched study titled: "The evolution of socio-economic disparities in literacy…

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