Study on Unknown Term Translation Mining from Google Snippets

Abstract

Bilingual web pages are widely used to mine translations of unknown terms. This study focused on an effective solution for obtaining relevant web pages, extracting translations with correct lexical boundaries, and ranking the translation candidates. This research adopted co-occurrence information to obtain the subject terms and then expanded the source query with the translation of the subject terms to collect effective bilingual search engine snippets. Afterwards, valid candidates were extracted from small-sized, noisy bilingual corpora using an improved frequency change measurement that combines adjacent information. This research developed a method that considers surface patterns, frequency–distance, and phonetic features to elect an appropriate translation. The experimental results revealed that the proposed method performed remarkably well for mining translations of unknown terms.

Direct Answers in Google Search Results

“…Recent research has been conducted on different age groups to see how normal snippets are perceived by younger and older search engine users [26]. Regular snippets are also a source of data for explaining unknown terms trough automatic translation [32]. Normal snippets are also able to influence users; for example, political partisanship snippets can amplify partisanship and influence undecided voters [28].…”