Join us for dinner in New Orleans! WHEN: Thursday, October 25 at 7 p.m. WHERE: Luke Restaurant 333 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70130 (504) 378-2840 www.lukeneworleans.com We have reached capacity and are no longer accepting reservations. Read the full report >>>
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Help us promote the ATA’s 59th Annual Conference in New Orleans! Add a clickable conference button to your website. ATA59 presentation topics include: neural machine translation, genetically-enhanced cancer therapies, pesticides, bird migration, pharmaceutical clinical studies, panels on new technical markets and patent terminology, … Read the full report >>>
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The preliminary website for ATA59 is now online! Go to www.atanet.org/conf/2018/ to start planning: – You can already make hotel reservations at the New Orleans Marriott. Remember that ATA rates are available as space allows and New Orleans is a very popular city. Last year our room block sold out in August. Read the full report >>>
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Planning for ATA59 in New Orleans has already begun! Have you considered submitting a proposal? Here are some useful resources: – Learn more about the process by watching Corinne McKay’s free webinar on the topic, “How to Write a Winning ATA Conference Proposal.” – Contact your Division Administrators at divisionS_TD@atanet.org to discuss your ideas. – Visit atanet.org to submit your proposal by Friday, March 2. Read the complete report >>>
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by Patrick Weill Today’s article is about being prepared. It is about having reserves or savings. I am not only referring to reserves or savings in the most common sense i.e. money. I am writing about things in general, for example emotionally, professionally, or socially. Tito Ortiz, a retired mixed martial artist, a former UFC champion, once said: “Be prepared for the worst, and the best will always happen to you.” There was another athlete, whose name escapes me, who had a terrible story and a resulting powerful idea. She was driving, and she and her boyfriend were involved in …
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by Carola F. Berger, PhD, Dipl.-Ing., CT For the readers who have been wondering whether I have made any progress with my neural machine translation project, indeed, I have. I have successfully installed and run OpenNMT with the default settings as in the tutorial, though the resulting translations were fairly terrible. This was to be expected, since a whole lot of fine-tuning and high-quality training corpora are necessary in order to obtain a translation engine of reasonable quality. However, as a proof of concept, I am fairly impressed with the results. As the next step, I am planning on tinkering …
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Congratulations to S&TD member Bruce Popp! Bruce was awarded the 2017 S. Edmund Berger Prize for his translation of The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics: Poincaré’s Foundational Work on Dynamical Systems Theory, published by Springer. Thank you to everyone who attended our division events during ATA58! The division held a reception, its Annual Meeting, and a networking dinner during the conference…
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by Stephanie Delozier Strobel At the 2017 ATA conference, I attended a great session on specialization and expanding into technical markets. Thank you Lebzy González, Nick Hartmann, Karen Tkaczyk and Matthew Schlecht. The panelists pointed out that there is more than one way to become a technical translator. Perhaps you studied language and translation and landed a position with a technical company, or you trained yourself in technical language by reading lots of journals, or maybe you had a technical background and you decided to trade in your calculator and apply your linguistic muscles to technical translation as a second …
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By Patrick Weill, CT Panel discussion held Thursday, October 26th, 2017, Washington D.C. Hilton during the ATA 58th Annual Conference. The published summary of this panel included the following text: “The panel will discuss the career trajectories of three experienced technical translators, including how they developed new areas of specialization throughout the years and what strategies they still see as relevant in today’s business environment.” Dr. Hartmann replied that there is a certain element of theatricality in translation…
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Science and Technology Division events and sessions for a full list of sessions, see here 1. Annual Science and Technology Division Meeting THURSDAY ★ 12:30PM – 1:00PM 2. S&TD Dinner Please join us for dinner at La Tomate Italian Bistro to see old friends again and to meet new ones. Cost: $58.00 per person (includes tax and gratuity) Payment must be received by October 16. For details and to reserve your place, CLICK HERE. THURSDAY ★ 7:30PM 3. AST Day: AST-5 Build a WordPress Website for Your Translation Business (8 spots left, Oct 3 2017). AST-5 Building WordPress websites for …