Computer Support for Authoring Multilingual Software Documentation

ITRI-96-14 Computer support for authoring multilingual software documentation

Modelling of Product Knowledge in the Framework of Multilingual Technical Documentation

Multilingual technical documentation is increasingly important due to the rising complexity of technical products. Our main point in this paper is the fact that it is possible to model product knowledge in such a way that this representation, together with additional linguistic resources, can be used for the knowledge based generation of multilingual technical documentation. The advantages of t...

Document structure and multilingual authoring

The use of XML-based authoring tools is swiftly becoming a standard in the world of technical documentation. An XML document is a mixture of structure (the tags) and surface (text between the tags). The structure re ects the choices made by the author during the top-down stepwise re nement of the document under control of a DTD grammar. These choices are typically choices of meaning which are i...

Are Style Guides Controlled Languages? - The Case of Koenig & Bauer AG

Controlled languages for industrial application are often regarded as a response to the challenges of translation and multilingual communication [3, pp. 52–53], [5, p. 212], [2, pp. i–iii]. This paper presents a quite different approach taken by Koenig & Bauer AG, where the main goal was the improvement of the authoring process for technical documentation. Most importantly, this paper explores ...

Extended Translation Memories for Multilingual Document Authoring

This paper discusses multilingual document authoring, viewed as providing computer support for a user to author a document in some source language while automatically generating the same content in one or many target languages. A kind of unanticipated use of multilingual authoring appeared in the service sector, in situations where an employee is servicing customers by answering their requests,...