Using the web as a bilingual dictionary

Authors:
Masaaki Nagata;Teruka Saito;Kenji Suzuki
Affiliations:
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Hikarinooka, Yokoshuka-shi, Kanagawa, Japan;Chiba University, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan;Toyohashi University of Technology, Hibarigaoka, Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi-shi, Aichi, Japan
Venue:
DMMT '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Data-driven methods in machine translation - Volume 14
Year:
2001

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Abstract

We present a system for extracting an English translation of a given Japanese technical term by collecting and scoring translation candidates from the web. We first show that there are a lot of partially bilingual documents in the web that could be useful for term translation, discovered by using a commercial technical term dictionary and an Internet search engine. We then present an algorithm for obtaining translation candidates based on the distance of Japanese and English terms in web documents, and report the results of a preliminary experiment.