by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The 2021 edition of the ATP EdTech and Computational Psychometrics Summit (ECPS) took place virtually on December 8th and 9th, 2021. On December 8, in the course of a session titled "Developing Equitable and Fair Learning Products: A Discussion of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The book “Dancing on ropes. Translators at the balance of history”, written by Anna Aslanyan, is based on the author’s experience as a Russian-English translator and service interpreter. Aslanyan grew up in Moscow and lives in London. She writes for ... Read more >
by Steve Dept As we slide into the Year 2022, I conjure up Joseph Heller’s hilarious page-turner, Catch 22, published fifty years ago. Not everybody enjoyed the contorted logic of the novel: the premise of the plot is that insanity is a sane response to a world gone insane. The ... Read more >
How to leverage CAT tools to achieve more savings than Machine Translation Wednesday, January 19 11:00 am EST | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CEST REGISTER HERE Computer-assisted translation tools (CAT tools) have been around for 30 years, and they are designed as productivity tools for professional translators. Using CAT tools effectively increases ... Read more >
In an assessment or in a questionnaire, many different parameters shape the translation approach: purpose of the data collection, legacy translations, budget and timeline, target audience, technology used, technical standards, end client requirements. At cApStAn, we have organized our language services in modules that can be combined to build the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village On the 26th of October Helena Dalli, the EU Commissioner for Equality, proudly announced the launch of “EU Commission Guidelines for Inclusive Communication”. The purpose of the document was to set common standards for inclusive communication and to provide practical ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Laura Marris, a well-known American writer and translator, began working on a new English translation of the novel “The Plague”, by Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, in September 2019, just months before the COVID-19 pandemic exploded. Camus’ book is an ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Cultures and societies are dynamic and so is awareness of social justice issues. Recent global movements such as #metoo and #blm have shone a light on many of the inequities in the world and highlighted the need to work towards ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "The hidden history of coined words", by best selling US author Ralph Keyes, is a delightful compendium of stories about how new terms have been created over the past centuries, most of which, says Keyes, "whimsically, to taunt, even to ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Recent social justice movements across the world have raised awareness, on an unprecented level, of the inequities in our society, and have set off a global cultural debate around the themes of diversity, equity and inclusion and bias reduction (DEI-BR). ... Read more >