by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The age of online communication has brought about a radical reinvention of punctuation, in ways that transgress the boundaries of what is commonly defined as "good grammar". This has sparked concerns about the future of formal language and become a ... Read more >
Wednesday | September 30, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT | 5:00 p.m. BST | 6:00 p.m. CEST Register Here #About Speakers and more info about cApStAn's quality assurances processes A translatability assessment (TA) is a tried and tested method to optimize the master version of your assessment or survey questionnaire before the actual translation and adaptation process ... Read more >
By Dr Satish Y. Deodhar, Professor, Economics - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Advanced technology permitting, entire world’s supply of food can be grown in a flower pot. The purport of this imagination is slowly coming true. With globalization, distances - physical, cultural, social, and technological are getting narrowed down ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village When groups of people who speak different languages come together, they sometimes create a new one, combining bits of each into something new that everyone can use to communicate easily. A recent article in BBC Future warns that these "linguistic ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Fiona Bell is a literary translator and scholar of Russian literature, based in Oxford. She won a highly competitive fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in 2018, and her translation of Natalia Meshchaninova's Stories received a 2020 PEN/Heim ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "Planet Word", opening up in Washington DC on October 22, 2020, will be an interactive center dedicated to language arts. Its mission is to inspire a love of words and language and the project is grounded in the belief that ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village For the past two decades the literature has hailed "team translation" as the gold standard in survey translation. Team translation is when you have several translators working separately on the same questionnaire and then they get together and discuss their ... Read more >
Five Cost-Effective Steps to Improve a Master Questionnaire before Translation begins Speakers – Andrea Ferrari, Co-Founder | Steve Dept, Co-Founder Recorded on Aug. 19, 2020 | Duration: 30 minutes Does your organization conduct surveys in multiple languages and countries? If yes, investing in upstream linguistic quality assurance before the actual translation process begins ... Read more >
The Double Source Double Translation Design in the HPEI personality questionnaire Speaker – Steve Dept, Founder & CEO | Danina Lupsa, Localization Specialist Recorded on Aug. 17, 2020 | Duration: 20 minutes The HPEI is a personality questionnaire. It is used for leadership coaching and has 52 questions used to attribute ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have opened up enormous opportunities in the field of translation. Today, with a well-designed – hybrid – workflow that combines human expertise and neural machine translation (NMT), it is technically possible to produce multiple language ... Read more >