Translation Procedures

Members of the ESS Translation Team are carrying out translation-related research in the following fields:

Adaptation versus ‘Ask-the-Same-Question’ (ASQ): which level of ‘closeness’ or ‘freedom/adaptation’ in questionnaire translation should be accepted or is advisable? (mainly carried out in the context of the SERISS cluster project).
Usability of the Translation Management Tool (TMT), initially developed for SHARE, for the ESS translation processes (mainly carried out in the context of the SERISS cluster project).
‘Advance translations’ have been carried out systematically since ESS Round 5 to make the source questionnaire easier to translate. The usefulness of this method is currently being studied in a series of Think-Aloud Tests.
Investigating the usefulness of linking the field of computational linguistics to questionnaire translation (mainly carried out in the context of the SERISS cluster project).

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