From Tool Use to Technological Agency: LoopCAT as a Local-First, Open-Source Tool for Translation Technology Education
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arXiv:2609.00344 (cs)
[Submitted on 31 Aug 2026]
Title:From Tool Use to Technological Agency: LoopCAT as a Local-First, Open-Source Tool for Translation Technology Education
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Abstract:Translation students need to learn both how to use translation technologies and how to judge the choices those technologies make available. This article presents LoopCAT, an Apache-2.0-licensed, local-first computer-assisted translation environment co-created with OpenAI Codex using GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6, and proposes a framework connecting workflow competence, evaluative judgement, and technological agency. The account draws on repository history, implementation inspection, and the verification records of an identified development build. LoopCAT combines local project storage, translation memories, terminology, quality assurance, document exchange, and optional connections to local or hosted AI services. Its English, Catalan, and Turkish interface catalogs also make the application itself available as teaching material: students can translate English UI strings into another language, review the existing automatically generated target drafts, import their revisions, and test the interface. We organize these opportunities around four forms of participation: operating a workflow, evaluating outputs, inspecting and configuring mechanisms, and making or defending a bounded intervention. A six-session sequence, a UI-localization assignment, a placeholder example, and an assessment rubric specify how teachers could use the framework. The paper separates implemented capabilities from proposed educational benefits; it reports no new student-learning outcomes. It distinguishes the latest package checks from earlier regression evidence and sets out a protocol for classroom evaluation. LoopCAT provides an inspectable setting for teaching how translation decisions interact with data, interfaces, and software rules. Whether these activities improve judgement, transfer, or participation remains an empirical question.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.00344 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2609.00344v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.00344
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