Abstract:

The widespread use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the digital age has exerted influence on human cognitive changes in the digital age and realized the multi-modal information knowledge transmission by digital media. The historical construction of language resources and technologies infrastructure serving for the information and knowledge media in the digital age has emerged. Terminological knowledge bases are intellectualized tools for the translation practice as well as a constituent of the language infrastructure in the digital age, while playing the role of digital communication media. They integrate and systemize for better benefits of terminological knowledge resources in specific subjects or fields, supporting multilingual cross-cultural communication in the digital era with multilingual knowledge expressions, and catering for the digital cognitive mode with multimodal representation of digital data. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics and functions of terminological knowledge bases, their communication environments and social applications. We also explicate the significance of the multilingual development of terminological knowledge bases and the realization of multimodal data representation.

Key words: terminological knowledge base, digital cognition, digital communication, multilinguality, multimodality