The Language Professional’s Smile
Technology is said to offer an ever-widening window of opportunity for language professionals who are willing to invest in technology and rebrand their services. But what’s often missing in the debate sparked by technological advancements is the professionals themselves—their well-being and enthusiasm. Can the language industry shake things up and develop sustainable solutions to tackle the adverse effects of technologization?
How to Help Everyone Cross the Linguistic Bridge: Tips for Accessible Digital Translation and Interpreting
Your work as a T&I professional touches many, including individuals with disabilities. By adding accessibility checks to your process, you’ll be helping everyone cross the linguistic bridge.
Brave New World: AI and Interpreting
AI has been present for some time in the T&I professions, and there is little to no risk of it disappearing. But the fact remains that both the ethical standards and the laws pertaining to AI use in general, and specifically in the field of language access, remain absent but sorely needed.
ATA Statement on Artificial Intelligence
The following statement on artificial intelligence was drafted by ATA’s Strategy Committee and reviewed and approved by ATA’s Board of Directors. ATA believes it…
5 Tedious Non-Translation Tasks ChatGPT Can Do Amazingly Well
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Adventures in the World of TMX
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E95: Inside Specialization – Opportunities in the Era of AI
In this ATA Podcast episode of Inside Specialization, Daniel Sebesta, ATA’s Language Technology Division (LTD) administrator, and Bridget Hylak, LTD assistant administrator, interview Konstantin Dranch, co-founder of Custom.MT, on a variety of topics surrounding machine translation and AI.
Can You Build Your Own Neural Machine Translation Engine?
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ATA’s Language Technology Division Members Reflect: Language as a Technology?
Members of the Leadership Council of ATA’s Language Technology Division found some intriguing ideas contained within an article in Bloomberg’s Tech Daily entitled “Language Was the Original Technology, and It’s Under Threat.” Here, they respond with some novel and personal reflections on the subject, most especially on a key takeaway which, not surprisingly, elicited some very different perspectives.
Getting Started with ChatGPT to Boost Your Productivity
Your livelihood as a linguist is not threatened by AI, but by AI-enabled linguists. Experiment with AI now and discover your productive use cases in translation, terminology, research, and admin.
E88: Scams
ATA Podcast Host Matt Baird speaks with Carola F. Berger, PhD, CT about scam types and what scammers are after, such as your information or your money.
Terminology Work in the Age of ChatGPT
Terminology work covers a variety of tasks. Let’s see whether ChatGPT can help us perform some of them. One task could be term extraction.