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Are Style Guides Controlled Languages?

The Case of Koenig & Bauer AG

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Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014)

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Abstract

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 the notion of a controlled language and demonstrates how style guides can emerge from non-linguistic considerations. Moreover, it shows the transition from loose language recommendations into precise and prescriptive rules and investigates whether such rules can be regarded as a full-fledged controlled language.

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  1. University of Hildesheim, Germany

    Karolina Suchowolec

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  1. Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Brian Davis

  2. Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

    Kaarel Kaljurand

  3. Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Tobias Kuhn

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Suchowolec, K. (2014). Are Style Guides Controlled Languages?. In: Davis, B., Kaljurand, K., Kuhn, T. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10223-8_11

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