Jessica Sanchez Wins 2017–2018 ATA School Outreach Contest
Jessica Sanchez, a Spanish interpreter and interpreter coordinator for the Fayette County Public School District in Kentucky, won a free registration to ATA’s 59th…
Read MoreATA Celebrates International Translation Day with a Blitz!
Although International Translation Day (ITD) has been around since 1953, it’s usually a quiet time when translators and interpreters reflect on their careers and…
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Dealing with PDF Files During a Translation Project
Why do some customers send PDF files for translation? There’s certainly not just one answer to this question.
Read MoreA Review of the Bilingual Law Dictionary/Diccionario Jurídico Bilingüe (Second Edition)
Publication Details Bilingual Law Dictionary/Diccionario Jurídico Bilingüe (Second Edition) Editor: Cuauhtémoc Gallegos Publisher: Merl Publications Publication Date: March 2018 Available from: www.merlpublications.com The second…
Read MoreAugmented Translation
Common Sense Advisory (CSA, commonsenseadvisory.com) coined the term “augmented translation” some time back, and while I always felt that I understood what it meant,…
Read MoreWork Smarter, Not Harder
I remember when I got my very first freelancing job. I was sitting on the bed in my tiny apartment in Luxembourg, where I…
Read MoreCognitive strategies for the resolution of translation problems
Reblogged from the EU’s Terminology Coordination Unit blog, with permission from the author (incl. the images) The objective of the papers is to draw a…
Read MoreGet out the vote 2018
ATA members should vote! We get the leaders we vote for. ATA is fortunate to have an all-volunteer Board of Directors that dedicate their…
Read MoreFrom the President: Elections, Position Papers, and More: ATA Counts on Your Voice
From the President Corinne McKay president@atanet.org Twitter: @corinnemckay As I write this in mid-August, ATA’s 2017–2018 Board has met for the last time (in…
Read MoreATA59 Is Just Around the Corner!
From the President-Elect Ted R. Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net By the time you read this ATA59 will be just weeks away. If you haven’t registered yet,…
Read MoreMy Southwest Story: Getting in the Media
A few months ago, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines, aptly named Southwest: The Magazine, ran a one-page feature on yours truly, which I…
Read MoreHuman-Centered Translation Technology
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) held its 21st annual conference in Alacant, Spain, on May 28–30, 2018.1 The organizers made a great…
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