Multilingual Drafting of Instructional Texts
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This paper presents a new approach to computer assisted production of parallel instructions in multiple languages: multilingual generation. At the IT Research Institute at the University of Brighton, we are working on two major projects on multilingual generation of instructions, funded by the CEC and SERC/DTI and involving collaboration with groups of professional technical authors and translators from commerce and government. These projects are directed towards the development of two types of software tools to assist in the production of multilingual instructions: graphical tools for capturing the procedures to be expressed in the text and drafting tools for producing a 'first draft' of the text itself in selected
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