Online Information Database - A Useful Tool in Terminology Translation

Abstract:

Translation or translating is a communicative activity or dynamic process in which the translator makes great effort to thoroughly comprehend a written message or text in the source language and works very hard to achieve an adequate or an almost identical reproduction in the target language version of the written source language message or text. The role of the knowledge base is essential in both comprehension and reformulation. The extent of knowledge acquisitions in each translation depends on the degree to which the translators knowledge base provides the information or knowledge required to deal with the source-language text. Terminology is where most practical problems lie in technical and scientific translation. Generally speaking, translators knowledge base in terminology is inadequate in comprehension and reformulation of terminology. So knowledge acquisition plays an important role in both the comprehension phase and the reformulation phase. This paper mainly explores significant role of information database as a knowledge acquisition tool in terminology translation, one of the most commonly encountered difficulties during technical translation and meanwhile offers useful suggestions of how to use information database and its search result to refine terminology translation

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 475-476)
• Pages: 1171-1175
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.475-476.1171
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Zheng Wang
• Keywords: Information Database, Knowledge Acquisition, Terminology, Translation

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