by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
End 2019, Questionmark, industry leader in assessment management software, launched a monthly podcast series called "Unlocking the Potential of Assessments." This monthly series is hosted by Founder and Executive Director John Kleeman and shares ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"What Happens When Machines Learn to Write Poetry?". This is the title of a recent article for The New Yorker by Dan Rockmore, Associate Dean for the Sciences and Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
An interesting article from one of the world's most popular media outlets, BuzzFeed, looks at how, before the 2010s, many things that are now integral to our everyday lives did not exist, eg. some of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Translating the Classics was for centuries "men's work", writes US academic, historian and writer Erika Harlitz-Kern, in a recent article for The Week. (1) Historically, women were expected to translate the works of their contemporaries ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In August 2018, UNESCO proudly announced that 2019 would be its "Year of Indigenous Languages". Unveiling a website devoted to the project, the organisation warned of the need to "preserve, revitalise and promote indigenous languages around ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
At least 1500 interpreters and translators in the Netherlands are on strike as of the 13th of January and refuse to take work from the judiciary, police and immigration service. They are striking against government budget cuts, which ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO
All language service providers will claim that they only work with experienced translators, which is mostly true, but this does not per se ensure translation quality. Serious organisations – and there are many – will invest time in preparing their survey ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO
When translating an assessment, a linguistically correct, fluent translation does not ensure that same constructs are measured, that test items are understood the same way or, for that matter, that the fairness, reliability and validity of the test have been maintained. ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A research team from three New Zealand universities has built an AI model regarding language transmission that splits populations up by looking at whether they fall into one of three levels of proficiency in a ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO
Language service providers rethink their business models to avoid being left behind the day machine translation output will have become a standard component of all localisation workflows. Which is now. While cApStAn does need to continuously streamline, ... Read more >