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“Technical Authors’ Studio (TAST)” is meant to improve the working conditions and professional competence of technical writers and the quality of computer manuals by a software system which will provide a better knowledge support. The system is designed as a shell so that other areas of cooperative professional authoring can easily be catered for by integration of special knowledge bases.
The authors would like to thank their colleagues Shona Douglas, Susan Heggie, Dominique Maret, Mike Sharples, Colin Tattersall, and Roland Wagner for contributions to earlier versions of this paper.
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Endres-Niggemeyer, B., Kobsa, A., Schmidt, P. (1994). TAST — A System that Supports Group Authoring of Computer Manuals. In: Ehlich, K., Noack, C., Scheiter, S. (eds) Instruktion durch Text und Diskurs. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-90830-8_14
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