Board Meeting Highlights

…Election—in conjunction with the Annual Conference in Washington, DC. (Please see ATA 2017 Elections for more information on the proposed bylaws revisions and the proposed resolution.) Date of Record: The…

Can Competency-Based Education Enhance Translator Training?

…doubt, some programs do, in fact, offer up-to-date curricula, focus on real-world skills, and assess those abilities reliably. Many others, however, are less effective than they could be. Drawbacks common…

5 Tedious Non-Translation Tasks ChatGPT Can Do Amazingly Well

…being as specific as possible in your prompts gets you the best results. b. Figure and date formats If you translate financial documents, you’re familiar with the challenge of dealing…

From the Executive Director: Meeting Our Members Where They Are: ATA Is Casting Its Net in 2023

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Board Meeting Highlights

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Enhanced Productivity with Text Expansion

…and there are boilerplate templates to easily insert dates and times, a very handy feature that I have combined with an abbreviation so that whenever I type “td“, today’s date

Evidentiary Translation for U.S. Courts

…new purpose in the future. Another giveaway is the document’s age. If you’re asked to work on medical records, contracts, or expense reports that date back several years, ask yourself…

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

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Newsbriefs: November 16, 2020

…opportunities. Upcoming Webinar Check out the final presentation in ATA’s 2020 webinar program. Post-Editing: How to Make Machine Translation Work for You (in Spanish) Presenter: Rubén de la Fuente Date:…

Speaking with OmegaT’s Project Manager

…a member of the Société française des traducteurs. You can contact him at didier@didierbriel.fr. Can you give us some idea of OmegaT by the numbers? Date of first release: November…

5 Tedious Non-Translation Tasks ChatGPT Can Do Amazingly Well

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Newsbriefs: June 15, 2023

…Nominating and Leadership Development Committee Chair (NLDC) Ted Wozniak (nominations@atanet.org ). Candidate statements and photos of the candidates will appear in the September/October issue of The ATA Chronicle and on…