Mehler / Romary Handbook of Technical Communication

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-022494-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 858 Seiten

Reihe: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]

The brings together a variety of topics which range from the role of technical media in human communication to the linguistic, multimodal enhancement of present-day technologies. It covers the area of computer-mediated text, voice and multimedia communication as well as of technical documentation. In doing so, the handbook takes professional and private communication into account.
Special emphasis is put on technical communication by means of web 2.0 technologies and its standardization in system development. In summary, the handbook deals with theoretical issues of technical communication and its practical impact on the development and usage of text and speech technologies.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Academic Institutes, Scholars and Researchers who are interested in Linguistics, Technical Communication and Documentation and Computational Linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mehler, Alexander

Romary, Laurent

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gibbon, Dafydd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction to the handbook series;5
2;Introduction: Framing Technical Communication;21
3;I. Basic communication technologies & infrastructures;47
3.1;1. Document Authoring: from Word Processing to Text Generation;49
3.2;2. Representation of Documents in Technical Communication;75
3.3;3. Foundations of markup languages;103
3.4;4. Controlled Language Structures in Technical Communication;141
3.5;5. Document Classification, Information Retrieval, Text and Web Mining;161
3.6;6. Multimodal and Speech Technology;209
3.7;7. Resources for technical communication systems;275
3.8;8. Evaluation of Technical Communication;305
4;II. Technical communication management;335
4.1;9. Lexicography, terminology and ontologies;337
4.2;10. Multilingual Computing;367
4.3;11. Scholarly Communication;399
4.4;12. Verbal communication protocols in safety-critical system operations;423
4.5;13. Multimodal Communication;455
4.6;14. Decentralized Online Social Networks;481
4.7;15. Digital Curation as Communication Mediation;527
5;III. Communication by means of technology;551
5.1;16. Internet-Based Communication;553
5.2;17. Tutoring Systems and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL);591
5.3;18. Framing Multimodal Technical Communication;611
5.4;19. Barrier-free communication;665
5.5;20. Artificial Interactivity;727
5.6;21. Ubiquitous computing;755
5.7;22. P2P-based Communication;791
6;Bibliographical notes;817
7;Index;827

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Mehler, University of Frankfurt, Germany; Laurent Romary, INRIA & Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld, Germany.