Abstract:

The mastery of specific-domain knowledge and the relevant knowledge-discovery methods in translation processes is an indispensable condition for the enhancement of translators’ expertise and translation-service assessment.The multimodal terminological knowledge base (TKD) is a systematic integration of diverse elementary digitalized constituents, representatively corpora, term banks and ontological knowledge bases. Through TKD, effective data analysis mechanism and knowledge discovery mechanism are introduced for translators’ deep leverage of these language resources. As for the methodological part, visualized man-machine interactive channels are embedded to optimize knowledge representation and application, thus the threshold of specific-domain knowledge is lowered as a whole. By the assistance of TKD, translators get an easier access to the linguistic and specific knowledge, including terminological knowledge, collocational knowledge, conceptual knowledge and logical knowledge essentially applied to the translation process.

Key words: translators’ knowledge system, terminological knowledge base, knowledge discovery, multimodality, man-machine interaction