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Evalyz

Entered program in 2025

Digital Infrastructure for Interpreting Quality Control in the AI Era

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Yao Zhang University of Copenhagen (KU)
Interpreting
Language Technology
AI

Today’s interpreting industry faces structural shifts and needs tools to regulate the market, guide transformation, and safeguard quality and human rights. Evalyz provides an AI- and NLP-based platform for fast, standardized, and objective proficiency assessment. It ensures interpreters are deployed only in roles matching their verified expertise, especially in high-stakes settings like courts, hospitals, and schools, to enhance reliability, transparency, and professionalism across the industry.

Yao Zhang

Yao Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP), University of Copenhagen. She has 20 years of professional experience as an interpreter and 10 years in interpreting research, focusing on automating interpreter proficiency assessment.

This project is supported by Spin-outs Denmark, a unique program that invests in researchers who create more impact by starting research-based companies.