Category Archives: cApStAn updates

Translation and localisation has traditionally been a cost centre, and the work performed by professional translators was mostly paid by word, by line, by page. Today, this model has become meaningless: translating half a million words or generating 100 pages directly in a foreign language can be done faster and cheaper than crafting two or three …

“Leveraging Translation Technology with Discernment | The Keys to Smart Localisation unveils on August 27, 2025”

A case study in applying differentiated localisation strategies to assessments, platform UX and on-the-fly low-stakes content

If you are attending the 2025 eAA conference in London, United Kingdom, we shall be delighted to have you in attendance at the session where cApStAn’s Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his) will talk and explain about the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence in producing multiple language versions of assessment items. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is …

“The 2025 International e-Assessment Awards | cApStAn | London, UK | June 9th – 11th”

Why would an assessment localization specialist spend 4 days with 4,000+ Industrial/organisational psychologists and be a Bronze-level Partner at their conference? Of course, we thought we had it all figured out when a cApStAn team of three flew out to Denver: Devasmita Ghosh, Grace DeLee and I looked forward to meeting the people who develop those …

“cApStAn at the 40th Annual SIOP Conference | April 2-5, 2025, Denver, Colorado, USA”

Three weeks ago, we flew to Florida. “We” could refer to well over a thousand professionals from the testing industry, who converged in Orlando, Florida from March 23 to March 26. The first-person plural conveys a sense of community and of belonging. At a smaller scale, “we” refers to my fabulous colleagues, Devasmita Ghosh and …

“Post-Conference Review | ATP Innovations in Testing Conference | cApStAn | Florida, USA”

If you are attending the 2025 Society for Industrial and Organization Psychology (SIOP) annual conference in Denver, Colorado, we shall be delighted to welcome you at our booth (#216) for a chat with cApStAn’s Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his), Global Business Development and Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh, and Localization Specialist Grace DeLee. At our booth, we’ll showcase the range …

“cApStAn at SIOP Annual Conference 2025 | Denver, Colorado, USA | Booth & Session”

Early March, my colleague Devasmita and I attended the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2025, which we refer to as the DOP Conference. Why would we want to go there? Are we I/O psychologists? No, although we often interact with them, we are mainly linguists and translation technologists. Our work focuses …

“Post-Conference Review | Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP) Annual Conference 2025 | cApStAn | London”

If you are attending the 2025 Innovations in Testing Conference in Florida, USA, we shall be delighted to welcome you at our booth (#215) for a chat with cApStAn’s Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his), Global Business Development and Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh, and Operations Director Laura Wayrynen. At our booth, we’ll showcase the range of gold standard as …

“cApStAn sponsoring (Gold) 2025 ATP Innovations in Testing Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA”

On 16th Jan 2025, our founder Steve Dept had a chat with Tim Burnett, founder of the Test Community Network, who is also a speaker, podcaster, teacher (non-exhaustive recognition list) with a mission to build thriving communities within the educational technology sector. Tim is an experienced and active member of the global educational technology community …

“The Art and Science of Assessment Translation | Interview | Steve Dept | Tim Burnett”

We are delighted to be a first-time attendee at the The British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2025 in Heathrow, UK.Our Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his) and Global Sales & Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh will be there on March 5‑6 to initiate conversations about the language component of assessments and questionnaires. See you all …

“cApStAn at DOP Annual Conference, Heathrow, UK | The British Psychological Society”

There is no shortage of C-Suite executives and founders who prompt generative AI to provide an optimistic outlook of the coming year. This exercise is typically associated with humble bragging (a frequent oxymoron) about achievements. So, is it anachronic to use a plain rearview mirror for hindsight, an old-fashioned sonar to sound depth, and a …

“Putting into perspective the rearview mirrow, the sonar and the periscope | Steve Dept, Founding Partner”

At this year’s edition of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence Exchange, in Miami Beach, we had conversations with many of the conference delegates. As usual, many questions were asked, some of which by several organisations. We have selected four such queries from our notes and publish them here with the answers we proposed. If you …

“FAQs | Most Relevant | I.C.E. EXG Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, USA”