Mining the Web for Domain-Specific Translations

Jian-Cheng Wu, Peter Wei-Huai Hsu, Chiung-Hui Tseng, Jason S. Chang


Abstract
We introduce a method for learning to find domain-specific translations for a given term on the Web. In our approach, the source term is transformed into an expanded query aimed at maximizing the probability of retrieving translations from a very large collection of mixed-code documents. The method involves automatically generating sets of target-language words from training data in specific domains, automatically selecting target words for effectiveness in retrieving documents containing the sought-after translations. At run time, the given term is transformed into an expanded query and submitted to a search engine, and ranked translations are extracted from the document snippets returned by the search engine. We present a prototype, TermMine, which applies the method to a Web search engine. Evaluations over a set of domains and terms show that TermMine outperforms state-of-the-art machine translation systems.
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2008.amta-papers.20
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Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers
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October 21-25
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2008
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Waikiki, USA
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212–221
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Jian-Cheng Wu, Peter Wei-Huai Hsu, Chiung-Hui Tseng, and Jason S. Chang. 2008. Mining the Web for Domain-Specific Translations. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers, pages 212–221, Waikiki, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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