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[email protected] • Website: www.atanet.org A Publication of the American Translators Association 50Years 1959 – 2009 12 First Date: Outreach from the Machine Translation Community to Translators By Laurie Gerber and Jay Marciano What do translators need and want from technology, and what can machine translation/language technology developers do to help? 16 Using Patents to Find the Terminology You Need By Bruce D.