by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Globalization and innovative web technologies have removed geographic boundaries and opened new opportunities for awarding bodies, technology certification programs and credentialing organizations. However, with these opportunities come new challenges: How do you localize items and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
At the recent TAUS webinar on "geo-linguistic shifts" two leading experts in the field, Lane Green and Nicholas Ostler (see bios below), discussed whether machine translation could one day replace English as the world's "lingua ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner
Will AI allow test development, item banking, item localization, validation and multilingual test delivery to all happen in one integrated environment? The AI behind adaptive translation is not the same as the AI behind item generation, but they can ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Tech companies driving the progress in neural machine translation (NMT) tend to fall into the trap of comparing NMT output with human output. Earlier this year Microsoft announced that its NMT had reached parity with ... Read more >
by Emel Ince - Project manager @ cApStAn
Online translation platforms such as Google Translation and Microsoft Translator have fuelled lively discussions. Recently, one such topic on social media has been the alleged gender bias of these platforms: Some users reported that, when translating phrases ... Read more >
There is a lot of hype around the coming into force on May 25 of the GDPR – the new European regulation to protect personal data. This regulation amends a previous 1995 Directive on data privacy to take into account the fact that, as we all well realize, we ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Automatic item generation (AIG) is one of the innovations in testing discussed at the recent Association of Test Publishers' (ATP) annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. Multiple choice questions have been the traditional way of testing ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
While at cApStAn we investigate how neural machine translation (NMT) can be used to improve a human translator's output rate while increasing consistency, blue chip companies driving the progress in NMT still fall into the trap ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
On April 4, Amazon Translate, which was in "preview" mode since 2017, was made available to anyone in the US and EU (with an Amazon Web Services account). In doing so, Amazon positions itself as one ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Anything produced by Jost Zetzsche is premium material and his new book “Translation Matters” is no exception. The collection of articles, reviews, posts and other writings spans over 15 years, with a nice combination of historical ... Read more >