Japanese-English Technical Terms

Approximately one million entries

20 domains of science and technology

Used by world’s leading IT companies

Overview

The Japanese-English Database of Technical Terms (JETERM) is a comprehensive database of nearly one million entries covering a broad spectrum of fields in the major domains of science and technology, including computers/IT, mechanical engineering, life sciences, chemistry, and medicine.

JETERM is available either as a full package including all domains or as domain-specific modules of your choice. Available also is the English-Japanese module, so that the total number of entries is nearly two million.

Principal Domains

Chemistry

125,000 headwords

Computer/IT

125,000 headwords

Mechanical

100,000 headwords

Medical

200,000 headwords

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JapaneseEnglishEntries
情報処理Computer, IT125,772
電気・電子Electricity, Electronics56,584
物理・原子力Physics, Nuclear Engineering30,044
機械Mechanical Engineering103,446
化学・工業化学Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry119,719
数学Mathematics7,700
土木・建築Civil Engineering32,019
金属Metallurgy23,327
地学・天文Geology, Astronomy43,803
輸送Transport21,311
自動車Automobile12,206
軍事Military31,893
農林水産Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries21,582
医学・薬学・生命科学Medical, Pharmaceutics, Life Sciences198,613
食品Food1,621
ビジネス・経済Business, Economics, Law61,864
環境Environment28,886
Total920,390

Practical Applications

JETERM is used by some of the world’s leading IT companies such applications as:

Machine translation dictionaries

Handheld electronic dictionaries

Casio’s EX-word series and Sharp’s Brain series

Mobile dictionary apps

Such as our own apps for Android and iOS

In CD-ROM format

Natural language processing tools

Like morphological analyzers and tokenizers

Reference Documents

Very Large-scale Lexical Resources to Enhance Chinese and Japanese Machine Translation

Academic paper

The Challenges of Intelligent Japanese Searching

Academic paper

JETERM Related Resources

CJTERM

Chinese-Japanese Technical Terms

Chinese-Japanese technical terms covering 20 domains

KJTERM

Korean-Japanese Technical Terms

Korean-Japanese technical terms covering 20 domains

JLD

Japanese Lexical Database

Monolingual general vocabulary for NLP applications