Automatic generation of technical documentation

T-DOC: A Tool for the Automatic Generation of Testing Documentation for OSS Products

In the context of Open Source Software (OSS), the lack of project documentation is one of the most challenging problems that slows down the widespread diffusion of OSS products. The difficulty of providing up-to-date and reasonable documentation for OSS products relates to two main reasons. First, documenting development activities and technological issues is viewed as a tedious and unrewarding...

Leveraging Crowdsourced Technical Documentation: Building a Command Thesaurus

Since its inception, the Internet has enabled motivated members of an application’s user base to compose and self-publish technical documentation, manuals and tutorials. These distributed acts of self-publishing can be thought of as the implicit crowdsourcing of technical support. In this paper, we leverage user-generated documentation to construct what we call a “command thesaurus”. A command ...

Applying Knowledge Acquisition and Language Generation Technology to the Production of End-User Documentation

End-user documentation is an important part of a software system. It is, therefore, unfortunate that the process of producing this documentation is frequently seen as separate from the process of designing the software. Integrating the documentation and software development processes would provide technical authors greater input to the overall design process, and would grant them access to the ...

Automatic construction of virtual technical documentation

ITRI-95-17 Designing Drafting Tools for and with Translators

Abstract The generation by computer of multilingual documentation has been the object of many recent studies, motivated by the need to meet increasing demands with decreasing resources. These studies concentrate on the fully automatic generation of texts, leaving translators out of the loop. In contrast, our goal within the DRAFTER project is to provide tools to support rather than replace the ...