Abstract:

This paper made a comprehensive analysis on the cross-strait scientific terms included in Cross-strait Chinese Terms in Atmospheric Science (3rd Edition), which would help promote the work of cross-strait scientific terms comparison and unification. We classified the related terms into three categories: completely consistent terms, incompletely consistent terms and completely inconsistent terms. For inconsistent terms, we mainly conducted a detailed study from the aspects of mathematical statistics, word frequency statistics, word frequency statistics and visual analysis, so as to fully understood the differences between terms across the Taiwan Strait. Our results show that the consistency rate of atmospheric science terms across the Taiwan Strait is high as to 72.92%, and the inconsistency rate is 27.08%. There is a high degree of consistency in the use of words and expressions of scientific terms across the Taiwan Strait. The differences are mainly reflected in the different understanding of the meaning of words, or the problem of usage habits.

Key words: Gephi, cross-strait term, atmospheric science term, visualization