Why Isn’t ATA Certification Offered in My Language?

By The ATA Chronicle | December 21, 2023

ATA currently offers certification in 34 language pairs, but there’s always room for more as long as certain criteria are met. As a member-driven…

5 Tedious Non-Translation Tasks ChatGPT Can Do Amazingly Well

By The ATA Chronicle | December 21, 2023

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Adventures in the World of TMX

By The ATA Chronicle | December 21, 2023

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Can You Build Your Own Neural Machine Translation Engine?

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

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The Knapp Review Three Years On: Upward and Onward!

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

In early 2020, ATA’s Board engaged Knapp & Associates International, Inc., a firm specializing in certification and credentialing, to perform a review of the…

ATA’s Interpreters Division Interpreter Connections

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

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ATA’s Language Technology Division Members Reflect: Language as a Technology?

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

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.

Got Standards?

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

We cannot underestimate the power of standards when it comes to educating clients! Not only are we adhering to international standards, but we are also following the best practices in our profession to guarantee accuracy, consistency, and professionalism.

Getting Started with ChatGPT to Boost Your Productivity

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

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.

Not Getting Any Internships? Create One. That’s What I Did.

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

Are you hoping to complete an internship in the language services industry but aren’t sure where to start? I was in this boat recently, but I doubled down, changed my game plan, and in the end created a dream internship where I learned so much and made an impact in my area of interest.

Password Management and General Cybersecurity: Keep Yourself and Your Clients Safe

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

If you follow tech news, you know that it’s not at all difficult to find reports of major companies being hacked and having data stolen. Losing control of your personal information is bad enough, leaving you vulnerable to crimes like identity theft and credit card fraud. But members of the T&I community are also trusted with our clients’ information. We need to protect their secrets as well as our own. In a cyberworld that seems increasingly more dangerous, how can we keep our secrets safe? For language services providers, this is not just an academic question.

Friend of the Court: ATA Advocacy Weighs in on Landmark Remote Interpreting Case, The State v. Juracan–Juracan

By The ATA Chronicle | October 17, 2023

Educating government officials and the public about the role of translators interpreters, and language access in our society is a central part of ATA’s mission. These efforts are led in part by ATA’s Advocacy Committee. The committee is proud to have been able to lend its collective expertise on language access and interpreting to
many important endeavors this year,
including this one undertaken with
NAJIT and the ACLU of New Jersey.