Development and Application of Bilingual Corpora of Abstracts in Sports Science Journals
Tian Hu · Beijing Tiyu Daxue xuebao · 2013
Questionnaire results showed that Chinese PE teachers and sport science researchers have difficulty in writing English abstracts and / or translating Chinese abstracts into English. Therefore,it is necessary and significant in establishing bilingual corpora of abstracts in sports science journals. We gathered the English abstracts from 6 international journals and both English and Chinese abstracts from 9 national journals in the field of sports medicine,and translated 1 222 English abstracts into Chinese. Using the software like PowerGREP and EditpadPro,we established corpora of one millions words. The bilingual corpora of abstracts in sports science journals can facilitate international communication for teachers and researchers by providing a search tool for sports-related terms or word clusters,and offering translation tips and term suggestions. It is our hope the corpora will be helpful in abstract writing and translation,language teaching and contrastive study of language,providing strong technical support for teachers and researchers in the sports field.