Chinese-English Technical Terms
Over 3 million entries
Over 60 domains, mostly science and technology
Constantly expanded and proofread
Overview
The Chinese-English Database of Technical Terms (CETERM) is a comprehensive database of over 2.9 million entries covering a broad spectrum of about 60 fields in the major domains of science and technology, ideally suited for MT and NLP applications.
CETERM is available either as a full package or as domain-specific modules, such as IT, chemistry, and medicine. Available also are the English-Chinese modules, so that the total number of entries is nearly six million entries. If you require a specific subdomain, please contact us for samples.
Principal Domains
Computer
170,000 entries
Civil Engineering
45,000 entries
Chemical
74,000 entries
Mechanical Engineering
76,000 entries
Chemical
74,000 entries
Biology
57,000 entries
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| No. | English | Chinese | Entries | Chinese Unique |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accounting | 会计学 | 3,462 | 3,355 |
| 2 | Administration | 行政学 | 1,869 | 1,865 |
| 3 | Aerospace | 航空航天 | 134,538 | 117,526 |
| 4 | Agriculture | 农业学 | 19,487 | 17,139 |
| 5 | Animal Science | 畜牧学 | 11,004 | 10,619 |
| 6 | Astronomy | 天文学 | 15,292 | 14,254 |
| 7 | Automobile | 汽车 | 4,705 | 4,542 |
| 8 | Biology | 生物学 | 56,685 | 47,222 |
| 9 | Biotechnology | 生化学 | 21,825 | 18,797 |
| 10 | Chemical Engineering | 化工 | 172,700 | 149,585 |
| 11 | Chemistry | 化学 | 73,826 | 65,603 |
| 12 | Chinese Herbs | 中草药 | 1,238 | 1,229 |
| 13 | Civil Engineering | 土木 | 44,599 | 40,081 |
| 14 | Computer & IT | 计算机 | 171,575 | 156,867 |
| 15 | Construction | 建筑 | 81,500 | 74,122 |
| 16 | Ecology | 生态学 | 5,213 | 4,916 |
| 17 | Economics & Finance | 经济金融 | 40,596 | 37,749 |
| 18 | Education | 教育学 | 5,585 | 5,411 |
| 19 | Electric Engineering | 电器工学 | 93,148 | 84,518 |
Practical Applications
CETERM has been used by some of the world’s leading IT companies for a wide variety of applications and software products, such as:
Machine translation
Greatly enhanced translation quality
Morphological analysis
Casio’s EX-word series and Sharp’s Brain series
Mobile dictionary apps
Such as our own apps for Android and iOS
Natural language processing tools
Like morphological analyzers and tokenizers
Reference Documents
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