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 >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Functional equivalence of test items across different languages and cultures is essential in order to ensure comparability of data. In the course of our 20+ year experience in linguistic quality assurance (LQA), in particular for major international large scale assessments ... Read more >
By Dr Richard D. Roberts, CEO and Co-Founder of RAD Science Post updated on 14.09.2020 I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln, circa 1849 ... Read more >
Why psychometricians & linguists need to join forces to improve the validity of multilingual assessments Speakers – Steve Dept, Founder & CEO Recorded Live on Aug 19, 2020 | Duration: 45 minutes Carefully crafted assessment tools too often depend on subtle wording choices, which are expected to trigger certain reactions in ... Read more >