Concordancers
Conferences
Controlled-authoring Software
Magazines
Mailing Lists
Simplified Technical English
Concordancers
A concordancer is a search engine that is designed for language study. When you search a collection of documents for a term, the concordancer shows you every instance of that exact term, along with the context in which each instance occurs.
For information about why concordancers are important, see "Research Terminology Issues," in Chapter 9, "Eliminating Undesirable Terms and Phrases."
For my own terminology research, I use a feature of acrocheck™ controlled-authoring software. Therefore, I don't have any first-hand experience with concordancers. However, here are a few that I have heard about:
Several others are listed at Concordancing Programs.
Conferences
The following conferences are excellent sources of information about tools and processes that facilitate the development and production of information for a global audience:
Controlled-authoring Software
See Chapter 1 of the book for an overview of controlled-authoring software.
These are the products that I am somewhat familiar with:
- acrocheck, by acrolinx
- MAXit, by Smart Communications
- HyperSTE by Tedopres International
In addition, here are a few others that I've heard of but know nothing about:
- Boeing Simplified English Checker
- CLAT (Controlled Language Authoring Tool)
I invite other vendors to tell me about their products.
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