Abstract: In allusion to the problems relating to incessant occurrence, difficult conjecture and confirmation, inconvenient search of defense abbreviated terms, we attempt to introduce the interrelated theories and methods of computational terminology and terminological knowledge engineering for the investigations on composition mechanism and orderliness of multilingual defense abbreviated terms, and to construct a search system. Our purpose is to promote the standardization and normalization of use and processing of the defense abbreviated terms.

Key words: computational terminology, terminological knowledge engineering, defense abbreviated terms