Abstract:

Translation of technical documents plays an integral part in the globalization of enterprises, thus being an important business of language service industry. The translation quality depends to a large extent on translators’ command of domain knowledge. Ontology-based terminology knowledge base can present a formal description of concepts and their relations, forming a well-structured knowledge map, which can serve as a great help for translators. Taking cloud computing in the domain of information and communication technology as a demo, we explore the construction of bilingual terminological knowledge base in terms of the constructing model, principles, processes and methods, etc. and set up a bilingual terminology knowledge base for cloud computing. This bilingual terminology knowledge base can serve language service providers, facilitate the cross-cultural business, and shed light on the construction and research of bilingual terminological knowledge base for other vertical fields.

Key words: bilingual terminological knowledge base, domain ontology, technical translation, cloud computing