TECHNICAL WRITER IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MODERN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TASKS
Abstract
This study focuses on technical writer competences and necessary specialized language resources, supporting any language worker in the framework of modern natural language processing domain (terminologist, translator, lexicographer, technical writer, grammarian, teaching language specialist etc.). These specialists are new generation professionals with a basic linguistic/philological education, prepared to meet the demands of modern technology and science which are defined by the potential of industrial processes automatization (Industry 4.0) and appropriate presentation of information (Information 4.0). New concept of Information 4.0 reveals that information to be researched and/or created can be presented as a set of information molecules that are examined under the conditions of form, production and curation. Information 4.0 injects new life into the profession of technical communicator (technical writer) and language workers as a whole: those, who are prepared to solve the text processing tasks in this new technology space. The underlying assumption of the paper is that the text is the result of information transfer and the starting point of information mining and extraction.