LiveTrans

Abstract

Enabling users to find effective translations automatically for query terms not included in dictionary is one of the major goals of a practical cross-language Web search service. This paper presents a cross-language Web search system called LiveTrans, which is an experimental metasearch engine that provides English-Chinese cross-lingual retrieval of both Web pages and images. The system has been implemented based on a novel integration of Web mining approaches, including anchor-text-based and search-result-based approaches, to extract bilingual translations of real English and Chinese queries through the mining of Web resources. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the system for providing a practical cross-language search service.