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ATA Activities
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ATA-1 |
Opening Session
Scott
Brennan and
Marian S. Greenfield
Thursday,
8:30am-9:30am - All Levels |
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ATA-2 |
Presentation of Candidates and Election
Scott Brennan
Thursday,
9:30am-10:45am - All Levels |
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ATA-3 |
Orientation for First-time Conference Attendees
Leah
Ruggiero and
Anne L. Vincent
Thursday,
11:00am-11:45am - Beginner |
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ATA-4 |
Workshop on the ATA Code of Professional Conduct
and Business Practices
Courtney Searls-Ridge
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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ATA-5 |
Annual Meeting of All Members
Scott Brennan
Friday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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ATA-6 |
Preparing
to Take the ATA Certification Exam: Questions and Answers
Celia
Bohannon,
Terry Hanlen, and
Lilian Novas Van Vranken
Friday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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ATA-7 |
"Boot Camp" for Newly-Elected Division Administrators
Dorothee Racette
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - By Invitation Only |
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ATA-8 |
Regional Network for North America
Esteban
Cadena,
Marian S. Greenfield, and
Ann G. Macfarlane
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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ATA-9 |
Chapter and Regional Groups Meeting
Robert A. Croese
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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ATA-10 |
Annual Meeting of Division Administrators
Dorothee Racette
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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ATA-11 |
The ATA Mentoring Program: Checking in
Courtney
Searls-Ridge
and
John
P. Shaklee
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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ATA-12 |
Workshop on the ATA Code of Professional Conduct
and Business Practices
Courtney Searls-Ridge
Saturday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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ATA-13 |
Grader Recruitment for ATA's Certification Program
Celia Bohannon
Saturday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
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ATA-14 |
Practical Leadership: Releasing the Positive
Energy in Your Organization for Creative Growth
Ann G. Macfarlane
NEW
TIME
Friday, 1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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ATA-15 |
NEW
Chat
with the Board---WE ARE LISTENING
Scott Brennan
Thursday,
11:00am-11:45am - All Levels |
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ATA-16 |
NEW
Certification
of Language Professionals in North America: Overview
of Credentialing Procedures in Canada, Mexico, and the
United States
Esteban Cadena, Ann
G. Macfarlane, Pascal
Sabourin , and
Jiri
Stejskal
Saturday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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| Agencies,
Bureaus, & Companies
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ABC-1 |
Localization for Translation Companies
Nancy A. Locke
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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ABC-2 |
Doing Business with the Government
Jennifer DeCamp
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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ABC-3 |
Raising the Bar: Optimizing the Agency-Subcontractor
Relationship for Ultimate Client Satisfaction
Scott
A. Bass and
Keiran Dunne
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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ABC-4 |
Quality-First Management in the Translation and
Localization Industry
H. Randall Morgan Jr.
Friday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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ABC-5 |
Translation Company Division Annual Meeting
Linda Gauthier
Friday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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ABC-6 |
Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Swahili—Getting
the Language Right
David C. Rumsey
Saturday,
8:30am-9:15am - All Levels |
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ABC-7 |
Smooth Sailing Through Project Management
Mei-Ling Chen
Saturday,
9:15am-10:00am - All Levels |
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ABC-8 |
Selling Your Services Successfully
Marilyn Barefoot
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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ABC-9 |
Targeting and Profiling Translation Clients
Renato S. Beninatto
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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ABC-10 |
The Proper Care and Feeding of Humans: HR Basics
for Translation Companies
Kim Vitray
Saturday,
3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels |
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ABC-11 |
Guerilla Marketing for Translation Agencies
Greg S. Churilov
Saturday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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| Financial
Translation
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FIN-1 |
La langue comptable en convergence
Jean-Jacques Lavoie
NEW
TIME Saturday, 10:15am-11:00am -
All Levels
Presenting Language: French |
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FIN-2 |
A New Look at Financial Terminology and Translation:
Applications of Corpora and Statistical Linguistics
Christophe L. Réthoré
NEW
TIME Saturday, 11:00am-11:45am -
All Levels |
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FIN-3 |
Financial Translations in Switzerland
Markus
Greiss and
Michael Zürcher
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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| Independent
Contractors
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Sessions are presented in English, unless otherwise
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IC-1 |
Ensuring Payment: Before, During, and After the
Project
Ted R. Wozniak
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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IC-2 |
Taking Care of Business: Making It Pay
Jonathan T. Hine
Friday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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IC-3 |
Technical Writers and Translators: When the Twain
Meet
Eliezer
Nowodworski and
Ury Vainsencher
Friday,
3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels |
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IC-4 |
Outsourcing and the Translation Industry
Memuna Williams
Friday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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IC-5 |
NEW Claims
Against Translators: What Are They and How Can They
Be Prevented, Mitigated, and Defended?
Antonella Dessi
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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| Interpreting
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Sessions are presented in English, unless otherwise
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I-1 |
Speaking with a History Maker: An Interpreter
at the Nuremberg Trials
Peter Less
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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I-2 |
How to Become an Interpreter Trainer: Putting
Your Knowledge and Expertise at the Service of Your Profession
Janis Palma
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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I-3 |
Interpretation Equipment: A Demonstration and
Training
H.
Randall Morgan Jr. and
Tracy L. Reynolds
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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I-4 |
Interpretation Strategies in Massive Communication
Irene N. Stone
Friday,
1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels |
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I-5 |
Diaz Versus the State of Delaware: An Appeal Based
on Interpreter and Language Issues
Nancy Schweda Nicholson
Friday,
2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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I-6 |
From Translator to Interpreter—Step One:
Sight Translation
Arlene M. Kelly
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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I-7 |
Self-Assessment and Quality in Simultaneous Interpreting
Carol J. Patrie
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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I-8 |
Interpreters Division Annual Meeting
Steven Todd Mines
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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I-9 |
A Revolution in Consecutive Interpretation: Digital
Voice Recorder-Assisted Consecutive Interpretation
Erik Camayd-Freixas
Saturday,
3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels |
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I-10 |
Is it Ethical to Work from Your C Languages
into Your B Languages in Simultaneous Interpretation?
Georganne Weller
Saturday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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| Legal
Translation & Interpreting
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LAW-1 |
Researching Legal Translations: The Whys and Hows
Madeline Rios
Saturday,
9:15am-10:00am - All Levels |
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LAW-2 |
Legal Interpreting as a Profession: Are We There
Yet?
Virginia Benmaman
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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LAW-3 |
Translation at the International Court of Justice
James Brannan
Saturday,
1:45pm-2:30pm - Intermediate |
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| Literary
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L-1 |
Literary Division Annual Meeting
Clifford E. Landers
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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L-2 |
How to Translate Children's Literature: Short
Stories, Poetry, and Picture Books
Aida E. Marcuse
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels
Presenting Language: English with Spanish and French |
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L-3 |
Teaching Literature in Translation: An Open Forum
Rosemary Arrojo,
Marilyn Gaddis Rose,
Carol S. Maier,
Françoise Massardier-Kenney, and
Lorena A. Terando
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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L-4 |
The Problems Faced in the Translation of José
Martí's Works at Present for a Critical Edition
of his Complete Works
Ana Elena de Arazoza
Friday,
1:45pm-2:30pm - Advanced |
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L-5 |
Resistance Literature in Translation
Lorena A. Terando
Friday,
2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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L-6 |
Non-Literary Translators Look at Literary Translations
Clifford E. Landers
NEW
TIME Saturday, 3:30pm-5:00pm - All
Levels |
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L-7 |
CANCELED
Good,
Better, Best: Organizing a Collection of Short Fiction
by Rubem Fonseca |
| L-8 |
NEW
Marilyn
Gaddis Rose Lecture
Ilan Stavans
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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| Media
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Sessions are presented in English, unless otherwise
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M-1 |
Give Your Words a Voice: Effective Strategies
for Multimedia Translation
Louis
M. Cardillo and
Nancy E. Smoler
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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M-2 |
How to Tame the English Pronunciation Monsters
Maya León Meis
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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M-3 |
National Geographic Translations for International
Distribution
Anthony
F. Barilla,
Camilla Bozzoli Rudolph,
Patricia C. Caron,
Wojciech T. Stremel, and
Juan F. Tituana
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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| Medical
Translation & Interpreting
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MED-1 |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Know Your Enemies
Olga Lucía Mutis de Serna
Thursday,
1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels
Presenting Language: Spanish |
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MED-2 |
Translating for Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical
Companies: The Translation Group Rx&D
Alain Cote
Thursday,
2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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MED-3 |
Medical Division Annual Meeting
Martine Dougé
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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MED-4 |
The Role of the Medical Interpreter: Visible or
Invisible
Claudia V. Angelelli
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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MED-5 |
If You Know Diabetes, You Know Medicine
Richard S. Lane
Friday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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MED-6 |
Coronary Heart Disease: Death American Style
Rafael A. Rivera MD, FACP
Friday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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MED-7 |
California Healthcare Interpreting Association
Organizational Language Access Assessment Tool: Helping
Healthcare Facilities Improve Their Services to Limited
English Proficiency Populations
Katharine Allen
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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MED-8 |
Culture Crash: Understanding the Experiences of
New Immigrant Communities in the U.S. Biomedical System
Amy J. Wade
Saturday,
10:15am-11:00am - All Levels |
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MED-9 |
Beneath the Tip of the Interpreting Iceberg: Cultural
Competence
Janet M. Erickson-Johnson
Saturday,
11:00am-11:45am - All Levels |
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MED-10 |
Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry in Canada:
A French Translator's Perspective
Jacques Roland
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
Presenting Language: English and French |
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MED-11 |
Translating Psychiatric Texts
Maria Rosdolsky
Saturday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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MED-12 |
NEW
National
Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Interpreters
in Health Care: Where Are We at?
Karin B. Ruschke and
Shiva Bidar-Sielaff
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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| Science
& Technology
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Sessions are presented in English, unless otherwise
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ST-1 |
The World of Plastics
S. Edmund Berger
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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ST-2 |
A New Patent Translation Handbook
Kirk
Anderson,
Thomas J. Clark,
Jan McLin Clayberg,
Suzanne Friis Gagliardi, and
Nicholas Hartmann
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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ST-3 |
POTS, Twisted Pairs, and Hotspots: An Overview
of Telecommunications Concepts and Terminology
Walter Jay Eidson Jr.
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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| Terminology
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TERM-1 |
Translating Haitian Creole: An Assessment of Reference
Tools
Sharon Bell
Friday,
11:00am-11:45am - All Levels |
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TERM-2 |
CANCELED
As
If Terminology Management Wasn't Enough Already |
| TERM-3 |
The Use of Metaphors in Specialized Languages
Sandra Ramacciotti Giorgio
NEW
TIME Friday, 1:45pm-3:15pm
- Advanced |
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TERM-4 |
Linguistic Technologies to Improve Translation
Productivity: Concept-based Terminology Management and
Natural Language Processing-based Text Analysis Systems
Masaki
Itagaki and
Paolo Vanni
Friday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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TERM-5 |
A Termbase for Global Events: Getting Involved
Alan K. Melby
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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TERM-6 |
Canadian English: Eh-to-Zed
David C. Rumsey
Saturday,
1:45pm-2:30pm - All Levels |
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| Training
& Pedagogy
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TP-1 |
Research
Forum: Empirical Research on Translation and Interpreting
Studies, Parts I-III
Claudia
V. Angelelli, Brian
James Baer, Christian
Degueldre, and
Holly E. Jacobson
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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TP-2 |
Research
Forum: Empirical Research on Translation and Interpreting
Studies, Parts IV-VII
Claudia
V. Angelelli,
José Delgado, Cynthia
Giambruno Miguélez, and
Peter
P. Lindquist
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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TP-3 |
Teaching Basic Interpreting Skills to High School
Students
Courtney Searls-Ridge
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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TP-4 |
Cultural Aspect of Translation: Choices and Strategies
Anastasia Koralova
NEW
TIME Friday, 3:30pm-4:15pm
- All Levels |
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TP-5 |
Beginning a Conference Interpreting Course on
a Shoestring
John B. Jensen
NEW
TIME Friday, 4:15pm-5:00pm
- Advanced |
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TP-6 |
Teaching Technical Interpretation: A Challenge
and an Opportunity
Silvana G. Chaves
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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TP-7 |
Solving the Language Service Puzzle: Why None
of Us Can Do It Alone
Jonathan Levy
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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TP-8 |
Starting Up a Translation Program at the University
of Florida
Bernadette
Cesar Lee,
Elizabeth Lowe McCoy, and
Gertrud
G. Champe
Saturday,
2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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TP-9 |
A Five-Year Agenda for Research in Translation
Chuanyun
Bao,
Diane de Terra,
Bill Rivers, and
Gregory M. Shreve
Saturday,
3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels |
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TP-10 |
Helping Each Other up the Ladder: Small-Group
Critiques as a Key Element in Translation Instruction
Laurence H. Bogoslaw
Saturday,
3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels |
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TP-11 |
Translation: The Importance of Getting the Whole
Picture
María-Luisa Arias-Moreno
Saturday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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| Translation
& Computers
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Sessions are presented in English, unless otherwise
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TAC-1 |
Web Design Made Simple for Language Professionals
Anne
M. Chemali and
Jill R. Sommer
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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TAC-2 |
Do You Speak XML? A Crash Course on Markup Languages
for the Aspiring Technical Translator
Romina L. Marazzato
Thursday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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TAC-3 |
Translation Support Tools Forum, Part I
Alan K. Melby
Friday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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TAC-4 |
Translation Support Tools Forum, Part II
Alan K. Melby
Friday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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TAC-5 |
Google is Your Friend: Terminology Searches on
the Internet
Marcello J. Napolitano
Friday,
3:30pm-4:15pm - All Levels |
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TAC-6 |
Translator's Tool Box: A Computer Workshop for
Translators
Jost O. Zetzsche
Friday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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TAC-7 |
Free and Open Source Software for Translators
Corinne L. McKay
Friday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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TAC-8 |
Sunken Treasure: Diving into the Wealth of Features
in Your Mac or PC
William
O. Bergerson and
Romina L. Marazzato
Saturday,
8:30am-10:00am - All Levels |
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TAC-9 |
Wiki for Translators
Alex Lane
Saturday,
10:15am-11:00am - All Levels |
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TAC-10 |
A Real Approach to Virtual Teams
Graciela G. White
Saturday,
11:00am-11:45am - All Levels |
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TAC-11 |
Internet Privacy for the Small Office or Home
Office Environment
Roland
Grefer and
Jill R. Sommer
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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| Varia
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Sessions are presented in English, unless otherwise
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V-1 |
Translation Renewed: The Effects of Globalization
on the Profession
James
Archibald,
Mathieu Guidére,
Danielle Henripin, and
Michèle Homsi
Thursday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels
Presenting Language: English, French, and Arabic |
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V-2 |
Language Mediation: Policy and Compliance
Catherine
W. Ingold,
Ann G. Macfarlane,
Holly Mikkelson, and
Wilma Alvarado-Little
Saturday,
10:15am-11:45am - All Levels |
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V-3 |
Language Mediation: Access, Education, and Availability
Diane
de Terra,
Carol Patrie,
Milena Savova, and
David B. Sawyer
Saturday,
1:45pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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V-4 |
Equivalence: What Clients Need and What Translators
Need to Know
Jason
Bredle and
Tamara Herzberg
Saturday,
2:30pm-3:15pm - All Levels |
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V-5 |
Editing: Are We All on the Same Page?
Maria
I. Sanchez and
Luis Alberto Carbo
Saturday,
3:30pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
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V-6 |
Yoga Moves for the Desk-Bound Translator
Jude L. Lupinetti
Saturday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels
Presenting Language: English with Sanskrit |
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V-7 |
Gender Inclusive Language: How Much is Too Much?
Jason
Bredle and
Tamara Herzberg
Saturday,
4:15pm-5:00pm - All Levels |
American Translators Association 45th
Annual Conference
October 13-16, 2004 • Toronto, Canada •
Sheraton Centre 
