Did you know what an important role technical writers play when it comes to topics such as automation and artificial intelligence? Do you happen to know what pre-editing means? If not (yet), why not give yourself a little break and read this article? What does "pre-editing" actually mean? The entire process of machine translation (MT for short) includes [...]
What is the core of terminology work? How does terminology work, what is the point of it all? And finally: What does this have to do with awareness? Warming up and warming up for terminology Shortly before Christmas 2020, I was given the opportunity to present a one-hour introduction to terminology for RWTH Aachen University in an online guest lecture. The audience was [...]
Review of a full-day regional group event By merging two regional groups, it was possible to hold the "Filling intelligent systems intelligently" workshop as a full-day event. This gave us the opportunity not only to apply the creativity techniques extensively with all participants in the "alien scenario", but also to transfer them to other problems. In addition, the results of the creative work [...]
At the 2019 tekom annual conference, the creative "non-linear thinking allowed" in our event "Filling intelligent systems intelligently - preventing stupid results" was very well received by many participants. Creativity techniques were presented, practiced and then used in a playful way to find and collect classification systems and their properties (taxonomies and metadata). There was just as much interest in using the creative [...]
Die Technische Dokumentation erfordert nicht nur Fachwissen, sondern auch viel Kreativität, wie sonst können Lösungen im hektischen Redaktionsalltag gefunden werden? Wir öffnen heute die Tür zu einer privaten Poesie-Werkstatt einer Redakteurin, die, wie sie uns verriet, „abends mit Unsinn am besten entspannen kann“. Viel Spaß! Informationsgedicht von einer der Redaktion bekannten Technischen Redakteurin [...]
Terminology, noun, f (the), word origin: terminus, Latin for "boundary", logos, ancient Greek for "word" and its content, cf. composites with -logie "Terminology" thus denotes, according to its meaning: the science of defining designations (terminology, which is also called "terminology theory" rather than just "terminology" for better differentiation) a set of defined designations (collection of words of a [...])
