Motivation: Why data mining? What is data mining? A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining What Kinds of Data Can Be Mined? What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined? What Kinds of Technologies Are Used? What Kinds of Applications Are Targeted? Major Issues in Data Mining A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society Summary
Ⅴ.Tentative syllabus Chapter 1 An Introduction to Chinese-English Translation Chapter 2 Culture, Language and Translation Chapter 3 A Contrastive Study of Differences in Thought Patterns Between English and Chinese Chapter 4 A Contrastive Study between English and Chinese Chapter 5 Lexical Translation Chapter 6 Chinglish (or False Friend) in Chinese-English Translation Chapter 7 Ways to Translate Idioms Chapter 8 Sentence Translation Chapter 9 Paragraph Translation Chapter 10 Non-Literary Translation Chapter 11 Literary Translation