Construction of a Japanese-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary Using English as an Intermediary

摘要

We present a method for constructing a Japanese-Chinese bilingual dictionary from a Japanese-English dictionary and an English-Chinese dictionary using English as an intermediate language. To select correct translations from among a large number of candidates, we have developed a method of ranking candidate translations by utilizing three sources of information, i.e. the number of English translations in common, the part of speech and Japanese kanji information. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is a feasible way to construct a bilingual dictionary of any two languages.