Construction of Corpus for Hydraulic Purpose: Supporting Industry Research, Education, and Development

Abstract

Corpus-based approaches and tools are effectively and widely used in language studies for specific purposes. A developed corpus with a large collection of specialized textual examples can help users find language characteristics and patterns of the industry. Building a Chinese-English bilingual hydraulic industrial corpus allows practitioners and students to get access to definitions, terminology usage, relevant academic research findings, and ongoing projects, so as to support industry research, education, and development. NHRICorpus is a platform that consists of a Chinese-English bilingual corpus and a term search engine. Terms in the corpus were retrieved from internal academic reports of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute. Users can launch into the platform to search for hydraulic engineering terms, information, and practices. To improve user experiences, eye-tracking technologies and theories are applied in web page design.