Abstract:

The construction of the bilingual terminological knowledge base for the Belt and Road Initiative is situated in the background of the construction of language resources infrastructures in the digital age. The objectives are to integrate information resources and to provide knowledge service systems, leading to the realization of information and knowledge dissemination and reservation featured with the application of information communication technology in the digital age. This in turn will facilitate international communication and regional cooperation with regard to economy and culture. The crucial work for the construction of the terminological knowledge base lies in building the knowledge ontology and its relevant methodological concerns.This paper presents the fulfillment of a research concerning the construction of the bilingual terminological knowledge base for the Belt and Road Initiative, and provides theoretical and methodological research with an elaborated illustration of building the ontology contributing to the construction of terminological knowledge bases for different subjects and fields. The ultimate goal is to promote the shareability and reusability of open knowledge resources providing knowledge service systems in academic research, translation practice and global communication.

Key words: the Belt and Road Initiative, bilingual terminological knowledge base, knowledge ontology, construction workflow