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Technical writing in the documentation area is becoming an increasing economic factor. Well designed, easy understandable documents need to be available in several languages without delay. This paper describes several tools to ease technical documentation and translation by supporting the terminology work.
Therefore we introduce some tools: a termbank, an explanation browser, a computer cardbox and a translation memory. With the explanation browser the user may navigate through a network of interlinked texts which form a subject field. The CardBox is a computerized cardfile which enables the user to define, write and link cards. The Translation Memory stores texts with their translation in a statistical model and gives back translation of sentences which have been translated before.
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Mayer, R. (1992). Workbench for Technical Documentation. In: Tjoa, A., Ramos, I. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7557-6_46
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