trans-kom is an academic journal for translation and technical communication research published solely on the Internet. trans-kom publishes research findings and contributions to academic discourse on subjects concerning translation and interpreting, technical communication, language for special purposes, terminology, and related fields.
Recently, new topics have come to the fore in technical communication, such as "Information 4.0", "Linked (Open) Data" and "Augmented Reality", just to name a few. It seems to be clear that the future will bring about new ways of producing, presenting and consuming technical content, not least due to the widespread use of mobile devices. An overarching question is what research in the fields of translation and technical communication can contribute to all that at the interface between the industry 4.0 world and the language and knowledge resources world.
Since there is a pressing need for academic reflection on this, the following topics should be explored further in a dedicated trans-kom Special Issue (to be published in June 2018):
* The present and the future of technical content production, presentation, consumption
* Industry 4.0 and its relation to language service providers and language service clients
* Multimodality and accessibility of technical content for lay and expert audiences
* Processing big language data in various formats and media
* Present and future business opportunities for language service providers related to language and knowledge resources
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
For submissions, the trans-kom publication guidelines apply. In addition to the editors mentioned on the trans-kom website, please submit your manuscript electronically as an e-mail attachment (if necessary, on a data medium) also to the Special Issue guest editor:
Georg Löckinger
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria School of Engineering Stelzhamerstrasse 23
4600 Wels
Austria
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trans-kom publication guidelines: http://www.trans-kom.eu/dauer/trans-kom_201612.zip
trans-kom website in English:http://www.trans-kom.eu/index-en.html
trans-kom website in German: http://www.trans-kom.eu
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submitting manuscripts (approx. 10 to 40 pages A4) to the trans-kom editors and the Special Issue guest editor:
31 October 2017
Deadline for notification of authors about review results:
8 January 2018
Deadline for submitting final version of manuscripts:
28 February 2018
Publication of trans-kom Special Issue:
June 2018
SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW COMMITTEE
Rute Costa (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) Christian Galinski (International Information Centre for Terminology, Austria) Blanca Stella Giraldo (International Information Centre for Terminology, Austria) Dagmar Gromann (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain) Gernot Hebenstreit (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria) María Cecilia Plested (University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia) Laurent Romary (Inria, France) Klaus-Dirk Schmitz (TH Köln, Germany) Hanne Erdman Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
