Linguistic Markers of Lexical and Textual Relations in Technical Documents

Anne Condamines (1) , Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (1)

1 CLLE-ERSS - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

This chapter proposes a number of linguistic " handles " for the description of technical documents, at a lexical level (terminology) and at a textual level (discourse coherence). Examples are given of uses of such insights in document production and management, in particular via document engineering systems. We provide a number of linguistic " handles " for the description of technical documents. Such insights into the " inner workings " of texts may be harnessed in various ways in the production and management of technical documents; we show some applications in document engineering, in systems designed to facilitate access to information. Our focus is on surface markers, i.e. observable text features identified through corpus analysis, signalling the kind of relations between lexical items used in building terminologies (such as generic/specific, see section 1), or relations between text segments involved in discourse coherence (such as theme, or rhetorical relations, see section 2). We insist on the relevance of the notion of genre when working with technical documents, and on the genre-dependent nature of our linguistic markers.

Mots clés: linguistic marker; semantic relations; textual relations

Domaines: Linguistique

Anne Condamines, Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley. Linguistic Markers of Lexical and Textual Relations in Technical Documents. D. Alamargot, P. Terrier, J.-M. Cellier. Imroving the Production and Understanding of Written Documents in the Workplace., Elsevier, 2007, ⟨10.1163/9789004253254_002⟩. ⟨halshs-01321037⟩