Text technology

Text technology is an interdisciplinary research area on texts as semi-structured data from the point of view of computational linguistics , computer science and philology .

Text technology deals with forms of representation of digital texts and written data, starting with classic word processing via hypertext and World Wide Web techniques, such as HTML and XML , to formal knowledge representation in ontologies .

Objects of text technology

Text technology deals with a number of text-related techniques. The most important are briefly mentioned below.

• Markup languages
• Text corpora
• Hypertext Theory and Technologies
• Data mining
• Ontologies

Text technology as a course of study

Text technology is offered as a degree program internationally and across Germany at several universities, such as Bielefeld University and Justus Liebig University Gießen . Possible fields of activity are technical documentation, work in publishing houses and the publication of print and online media.

See also

• Formal semantics
• Typography for digital texts

literature

• Henning Lobin , Lothar Lemnitzer: Text technology. Perspectives and Applications . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-86057-287-3
• Henning Lobin: Computational Linguistics and Text Technology , Fink, Paderborn 2010. ISBN 978-3-7705-4863-7

Web links

• Bachelor's degree in text technology and computational linguistics at Bielefeld University
• Master's degree in Computational Linguistics and Text Technology at the University of Giessen