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ATA TEKTalks: Hidden Risk in AI Translation – Why Review Is the New Bottleneck

ATA — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

The rapid adoption of AI and machine translation has dramatically increased the volume of translated content, but review capacity has not scaled at the same pace. As a result, translation review is emerging as the new bottleneck in localization workflows.

This webinar examines why traditional review processes struggle to keep up with AI-driven production and where quality risks are most likely to appear. Through a discussion and a Q&A, the focus will be on exploring common failure points in AI-assisted translation pipelines and understanding why “good enough” machine output can still introduce costly errors.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

ATA’s Language Technology Division is pleased to present ATA TEKTalks, a quarterly series of webinars. ATA TEKTalks provides a platform for leading language technology companies to say hello, offer insights, and answer questions relevant to the work of freelancers, language services providers, and in-house translation departments.

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Learn practical strategies for scaling review without sacrificing quality, including structured evaluation frameworks and AI-assisted review approaches.
Understand why translation review is becoming the primary bottleneck in AI-driven localization workflows and where the biggest quality risks appear.
Identify the most common error types that emerge in AI-generated translations and how they impact meaning, compliance, and client trust.
Learn practical strategies for scaling translation review processes without increasing review time or operational costs.
Explore how AI-assisted review tools can support translators and reviewers in identifying issues faster while maintaining human oversight of final quality decisions.

About the Presenter

Marco Baglioni is the chief executive officer and co-founder of LanguageCheck.ai and founder of the language technology company Aqrate. With 25 years of experience in the translation and localization industry, he has worked at the intersection of language services, workflow automation, and AI-driven quality evaluation. Marco focuses on developing technologies that help translators, language services providers, and enterprises scale translation quality in AI-assisted workflows. His work centers on practical applications of AI for translation review, risk detection, and quality scoring. Through LanguageCheck.ai, he is advancing new approaches to translation quality management that combine human expertise with AI-assisted evaluation.

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ATA TEKTalks: How to Raise Your Post-Editing Productivity with CotranslatorAI

ATA — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Discover smarter ways to boost your translation and post-editing workflows. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to: pre-purpose AI prompts so you get better results faster, use workflow accelerators to save time and reduce repetition, and apply an iterative process that sharpens your prompts and output.

We’ll start with a hands-on look at how to achieve this in CotranslatorAI, then open the floor for a live Q&A with our expert panel and audience. Don’t miss this chance to refine your process, cut wasted effort, and get your questions answered by an industry leader.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Learn how to design and organize AI prompts in advance (“prompt pre-purposing”) to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
Integrate workflow accelerators that cut down repetitive tasks and boost daily efficiency.
Apply a step-by-step iterative process to refine prompts and outputs optimized to project-ready standards.
Explore practical use cases of CotranslatorAI for real translation and post-editing scenarios.
Develop strategies to position oneself as a more valuable professional by combining human expertise with AI-driven processes.

About the Presenter

Steven Bammel is a Korean-to-English technical translator with over 20 years of experience. Having a background in strategic management from Hanyang University (Korea) and in Economics from the University of Texas at Arlington (U.S.), Steven combines his language and translation expertise with a deep knowledge of AI workflows to develop frameworks that help translators raise their productivity. As an active member of ATA, Steven still translates daily.

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ATA TEKTalks: Cloud-Based CAT Tools – Can They Work?

ATA — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

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This ATA TEKTalks will feature a new cloud-based CAT Tool, Trados Go.

We know that most translators prefer desktop CAT tools, so we’re definitely not taking Studio away. At the same time, we also know that some users prefer working in the browser. So, we would like to validate with our community how big and substantial the interest in browser-based solutions is. Against this background, I would like to discuss pros and cons of using browser +desktop environments, plugging in AI in both, and open this discussion up to the audience and get valuable feedback.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Compare the pros and cons of using browser-based vs. desktop environments for language localization.
Understand localization workflows and how they differ across platforms.
Explore Trados’ new cloud-based CAT tool, Trados Go.
Learn how AI features can be enabled in both browser and cloud-based environments.

About the Presenter

Daniel Brockmann is Principal Product Manager at Team Trados. Daniel product-manages a wide range of applications in the Trados portfolio designed for translators, project managers and terminologists – from the translation productivity environments Trados Studio and Trados Go via the terminology management suite MultiTerm to the software localization solution Passolo. He also helps the team to evolve the translation management solution Trados Enterprise as well as the collaboration solutions Trados GroupShare (on-premise) and Trados Team (cloud-based).

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ATA TEKTalks: Human-Inspired Term Extraction with Sketch Engine

ATA — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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This webinar offers a practical introduction to Sketch Engine and explores how it can support freelance translators, in-house linguists, language services providers, and students alike—whether you’re looking to streamline your workflow, sharpen your linguistic insights, or expand your client base.

Sketch Engine is an online text analysis tool that works with large samples of language, called text corpora, to identify what is typical and frequent in a language and what is rare, outdated, going out of use, or what new words or grammar are beginning to be used. In a nutshell, Sketch Engine is a tool to learn how language works.

In current language industry scenarios, Sketch Engine is an ideal method of identifying and extracting clean and reliable data from any source.

Manual extraction is time-consuming. With large quantities of text, automatic term extraction is the only viable option. However, the result can be noisy, contain many non-terms, and require human post-editing.

This webinar will present the principles behind an automatic method that reduces the noise considerably by imitating the more reliable manual term extraction process.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

Conduct corpus queries to explore how words are used across a range of contexts, examining frequency, distribution, and variation.
Analyze collocations using Sketch Engine to uncover patterns of co-occurrence that reveal how language works in real, everyday use.
Create word sketches that capture a word’s grammatical behavior and typical collocates, offering a concise view of its usage profile.
Extract keywords statistically to pinpoint salient terms in a text or corpus, which is useful for domain analysis, terminology work, or content comparison.
Support language teaching with authentic, corpus-based examples that enhance textbook materials and make instruction more contextually rich.

About the Presenter

Ondřej Matuška is a linguist and head of sales at Sketch Engine, a corpus system developed by Lexical Computing. His role includes promoting the use of corpora among linguists and language professionals and running training events and workshops. Ondřej also contributes to developing the user interface and improving the user experience of Sketch Engine, the OneClick Terms term extractor and the Lexonomy dictionary writing system.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is ModernMT the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

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Learn the pros and cons of the top language localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

ModernMT is a machine translation engine that is able to learn from human corrections in real time. This introduction to the tool will offer freelance translators, in-house linguists, company owners, and students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

By attending this webinar, you will:

Learn how ModernMT’s adaptive technology differs from other machine translation technologies.
Learn how you can use your legacy translation memories for additional productivity gains.
Hear first-hand about Lara and the new possibilities of LLM-powered machine translation of the future.

About the Presenter

Kirti Vashee is a language technology evangelist at Translated Srl and was previously an independent consultant focusing on MT and translation technology. He was formerly associated with several MT developers, including Language Weaver, RWS/SDL, Systran, and Asia Online. He has long-term experience in the MT technology arena and previously worked for several software companies, including Lotus, OTG, Legato, and EMC. He moderates the Automated Language Translation (MT) group (with over 14,000 members) on LinkedIn, which is considered an elite and active LinkedIn group. He is also a former board member of the American Machine Translation Association.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is Wordscope the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Learn the pros and cons of the top language localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

Wordscope is a web-based CAT tool that was one of the first to incorporate AI-powered features while focusing on confidentiality.

Attend the last installment of 2024 ATA TEKTalks for an interview with Philippe Mercier, a Belgian software engineer and the creator of Wordscope. This introduction to the tool will offer freelance translators, in-house linguists, company owners, and students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Understand some of the ways to safeguard confidentiality while using AI.
Explore how to utilize AI-powered features for terminology and translation accuracy.
Be able to use rephrasing, synonyms, and alternative suggestions to improve your translations.
Learn how to streamline your workflows with AI-powered quality assurance.

About the Presenter

Philippe Mercier began his career as an IT consultant and author of a dozen software programming books published by Hachette France. His passion for writing and his expertise in IT quickly led him to the world of translation and software localization, where he participated in numerous projects and held various positions within translation agencies. Drawing on his experience in IT and his understanding of the challenges faced by translators, he has always strived to develop innovative solutions to meet their specific needs. More recently, he has incorporated the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, such as machine translation and ChatGPT, into his CAT tool, Wordscope. This integration aims to assist translators in enhancing the quality and speed of their services, addressing the growing demand for translation in our globalized world.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is Boostlingo the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Learn the pros and cons of the top localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

Boostlingo is an interpreting management system and a unified cloud-based platform for interpretation services, interpreter scheduling, AI translation and captioning, and multilingual events. Attend the Q3 episode of our 2024 ATA TEKTalks lineup for an interview with Bryan Forrester, co-founder and CEO of Boostlingo. This introduction to the platform will offer freelance and in-house interpreters, company owners, and T&I students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Understand where Boostlingo stands between human interpretation and AI speech translation.
Explore how Boostlingo Hub helps interpreters manage their schedule.
Get to know the remote interpreting solutions Boostlingo offers.
See how you may be able to take on more interpreting and language access assignments with Boostlingo.

About the Presenter

Bryan Forrester is the Chief Executive Officer of Boostlingo, a technology company based in Austin, TX that has built the interpretation communication and management platform for businesses, government agencies and language service companies to run their interpreting business on. Prior to his time leading Boostlingo, Bryan co-founded and led Anchor, Inc. which was acquired by eFolder (now Axcient) in 2012. In addition to co-founding several technology startups, Bryan has held multiple leadership positions in sales and marketing in technology companies such as Sonicwall, eFolder and Quest Software. Bryan is passionate about technology innovation that helps break down communication barriers.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is Metalinguist the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Learn the pros and cons of the top language localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

Metalinguist is an ultra-modern translation business management system tailored to language services providers, in-house language divisions, and freelancers. It was also voted the TAUS AI Revolutionary 2023 Contest Winner.

This introduction to the tool will offer freelance translators/interpreters, in-house linguists, company owners, and students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Understand the shift in focus towards direct clients.
Explore the importance of making language business operations more efficient and user-friendly compared to ChatGPT.
Be able to adopt a client-first approach in the AI era.
Take a look at future trends in language services and their implications.

About the Presenter

Veronica Hylák, co-founder of Metalinguist, brings a decade of product innovation experience from Fortune 500 companies and U.S. intelligence-gathering systems. Heavily active in the translation and localization industry, she was recently recognized as the TAUS AI Revolutionary and Slator Language AI 50 Under 50 for her work on a sister product. She writes a weekly blog called the AI Almanac, is a second-generation language industry professional, and actively advises U.S. state government AI task forces and corporations on navigating this new era of AI technology.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is XTM the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Learn the pros and cons of the top language localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

XTM International develops and sells XTM Cloud, a web-based translation management system with an integrated computer-aided translation tool. It centralizes linguistic assets and enables fast, accurate translation and deployment of localized content.

This introduction to the tool will offer freelance translators, in-house linguists, company owners, as well as students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Learn how the central storage of linguistic assets in XTM facilitates collaboration.
Understand how XTM incorporates machine translation and other (potentially) productivity-boosting functionality.
Find out more about AI-powered features XTM has already launched or is developing.

About the Presenters

Sara Basile is the product director at XTM International. With over 10 years of experience in the localization industry at global enterprises, she joined XTM in 2020. In her role, she leads product operations and owns the strategic product vision, ensuring XTM continues to deliver customer value through a successful roadmap. An advocate for innovation and smart technology, she has built a customer-centric approach to product management at XTM.

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ATA TEKTalks: Translating with ChatGPT inside Trados and memoQ

ATA — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Explore the pros and cons of leading language localization tools to determine which one aligns best with your needs and goals! Timed to coincide with the two-year anniversary of ATA TEKTalks, this special webinar is scheduled and designed as a hands-on micro-workshop.

Participants will learn how to write prompts for style and terminology transfer. They will experiment with the temperature setting and the glossary feature to control ChatGPT’s output. They will also learn how to reduce the cost of using generative artificial intelligence.

All participants will receive the necessary software and credits to practice prompt writing and translating at no cost. They will, however, need their own Trados or memoQ license.

What is ATA TEKTalks?
Language technology, or lang tech for short, can feel like a confusing maze, evolving daily. If you’ve ever felt “LOC’d out” of all the excitement—or just overwhelmed—it’s time to grab your compass and assume your place as a tech-savvy linguist!

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

In this webinar, you will:

Learn how to use ChatGPT in a professional setting within your preferred CAT tool.
Learn how large language models can be tweaked to produce customized translations.
Learn how to manage and control the cost of using generative AI.

About the Presenters

Konstantin Dranch is a specialist market researcher, recognized for his industry insights in localization and language technology. He founded Custom Machine Translation (Custom.MT), a company that implements machine translation and Gen AI in language and localization teams. His contributions to the field include the creation of the Language Technology Atlas, several industry conferences, industry maps, and regional and global rankings of language services providers.

Elena Murgolo is a language expert and tech enthusiast with a passion for martial arts. She started as a conference interpreter, mastering English and German, before transitioning into technical translation. She excelled in language technology, managing CAT tools and MT. In academia, she has published papers and presented at conferences. At Custom MT, she is a localization consultant, leading AI model training projects. Beyond work, she teaches judo to children, making her Custom.MT’s l10n ace with a judo twist.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is Bureau Works the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Feeling LOC’d out? ATA TEKTalks is here to help!

Learn the pros and cons of the top language localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

Bureau Works (BWX) is a translation management system dedicated to innovation and to addressing deep-seated translation challenges at their source. It puts state-of-the-art Gen AI capabilities in the hands of linguists and helps automate away routine and error-prone tasks.

This introduction to the tool will offer freelance translators, in-house linguists, company owners, and students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

After this webinar, you will:

Understand how BWX can help automate your translation workflows.
Learn how to reconcile different translation resources using Generative AI.
Find out how a semantic verifier in BWX can take your quality assurance to the next level.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Language technology, or lang tech for short, can feel like a confusing maze, evolving daily. If you’ve ever felt “LOC’d out” of all the excitement—or just overwhelmed—it’s time to grab your compass and assume your place as a tech-savvy linguist!
ATA’s Language Technology Division is pleased to present ATA TEKTalks, a quarterly series of webinars. ATA TEKTalks provides a platform for leading language technology companies to say hello, offer insights, and answer questions relevant to the work of freelancers, language services providers, and in-house translation departments.
Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

About the Presenter

Gabriel Fairman is a thought leader and entrepreneur specializing in localization and business process automation. He has navigated Bureau Works from a boutique translation agency to a global localization platform/translation management system. A speaker of six languages, he grew up speaking American English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Argentinian Spanish. He then picked up a bit of French, Italian, and Mandarin. He writes about the firsthand experience of a business leader, entrepreneur, father, and human being.

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ATA TEKTalks: Is LSP.expert the Right Tool for You?

ATA — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Learn the pros and cons of the top language localization tools to discover which one best fits your needs and goals!

LSP.expert is a tool for translators, small language services companies, and interpreters that helps you manage jobs, clients, invoices, expenses, vendors, time spent, and more.

This introduction to the tool will offer freelance translators, in-house linguists, company owners, and students an overview of how it can help increase productivity and bring in new business.

By attending this webinar, you will:

Understand how LSP.expert can help you manage your language services business.
Learn how to streamline and/or automate project management, billing, expenses, and more.
Find out how tracking your time can offer insights into the performance of your business.
Find new opportunities to save time on tedious tasks and have more time to focus on your linguistic work.

What is ATA TEKTalks?

Think of ATA TEKTalks as an open exchange of information where language technology companies and their representatives demonstrate how and why their services can improve your return on investment.

This webinar series is organized in collaboration with ATA’s Language Technology Division.

About the Presenter

Anne-Sophie De Clercq is a language lover, time management enthusiast, and yoga buff who has turned her passions into a three-headed profession: translator/work-life balance speaker/yoga instructor. In need of a tool to streamline the administrative side of her business, she found LSP.expert and never looked back. She now shares her best tips and tricks to encourage fellow linguists to thrive and make time for what they do best.

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