European Academic Colloquium on Technical Communication 2014

She is Professor of Information and Media Technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and CEO of C-Topic Consulting. She is one of the leading German experts in the field of technical communication. She is an internationally wellknown lecturer and consultant for XML and information architecture. Sissi Closs has defined the class concept method® for developing flexible frameworks for Topic and Link classes®. As a specialist for topic-based structuring, she belongs to the DITA pioneers and has designed and implemented the first DITA implementation in Germany at Deutsche Post. She is also the author of a number of books about single source publishing, topic-based structuring, and mobile documentation.
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Prof. Dr. Birgitta Meex is an Assistant Professor of German and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Subfaculty of Language and Communication of the University of Leuven in Antwerp. She received her PhD in German Linguistics from the University of Leuven in 2001. She is a certified trainer in Technical Communication (tekom) and is actively engaged in tekom Belgium. Her research is inspired by the desire to incorporate the disciplines of discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics. She has published research articles in the fields of cognitive semantics, corporate communication as well as technical and medical communication.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Meng studied German Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the University of Jena and the University of Edinburgh. After completing his Ph.D. on syntactic analysis during reading in 1998, he worked as technical writer and later on as Department Manager Documentation and Localization for a local software company. In 2012, Michael Meng was appointed Professor for Applied Linguistics at Hochschule Merseburg (University of Applied Sciences) where he now teaches courses on text analysis, text production, and cognitive psychology in the B.Eng. and M.A. programs on Technical Communication.
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Prof. Dr. Markus Bader studied linguistics and psychology at the University of Freiburg. He completed his Ph.D. in 1994. Markus Bader currently holds the chair of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics at the University of Frankfurt. His research interests focus on normal and impaired processes of language comprehension and language production.
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Yvonne Cleary is a Lecturer in Technical Communication at the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, where she is Course Director for the M.A. in Technical Communication and ELearning. She is currently Associate Head of the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication. She has taught courses on the theory and practice of technical communication, to both on-campus and distance learning students, for 13 years. Dr. Cleary's research interests include international communication, virtual teams, and the Irish technical communication field. She has presented her research at international conferences and has published articles about online communication, technology use, and intercultural communication, in leading journals including: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
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Dr. Sandrine Peraldi is Research Director at ISIT and holds a Ph.D. in Terminology and Corpus Linguistics (University Paris Diderot). Dr. Peraldi has been in charge of Research projects and European Projects at ISIT since 2006. She lectures in Terminology, Corpus Linguistics, Translation Studies, CAT tools and Machine translation. She also supervises Masters research dis-sertations. As a member of the CRATIL and the CLILLAC-ARP (Paris 7) research centres, she has published more than 30 research articles in the field of onto-terminology, discourse analysis, semantics, and machine translation. She is Editor in chief of the Bulletin du CRATIL, the scientific journal of ISIT's research centre.
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He studied Political Science and English Language and Literature at the University of Mannheim, earning a degree as a Business Economist (VWA) with focus on marketing. After being active as a manager of an educational institution and experience in various associations, CEO of tekom Deutschland since 1996. Since 2001, also CEO of tcworld GmbH, and since 2013, also CEO of the European Association for Technical Communication - tekom Europe e.V.
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Psychologist, specializing in empirical research, communication and knowledge acquisition, has been responsible for tekom studies and surveys since 2003. She regularly compiles the trend reports "Facts and Figures" and "Salary and Labor Market" for tekom. In addition, Daniela Straub is responsible for tekom's training and certification division. She has additional training, e.g. in business performance improvement and as a moderator. Before joining tekom, she worked for several years as a consultant in the areas of process optimization and change management for an international management consultancy.
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Prof. Dr. Georg Löckinger holds a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in translation studies from the University of Vienna. His award-winning doctoral thesis deals with translation-oriented reference tools and includes an empirical study on the information needs of professional translators. Since September 2013, Georg Löckinger has been a professor of technical communication at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Apart from his academic work, Georg Löckinger has extensive hands-on experience as a translator and terminologist in various professional settings. Furthermore, he is actively involved in national and international standardization with regard to language technologies and language resource management.
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