Abstract: Extracting translation of Chinese term and oov words is an important problem in many applications such as machine translation and cross-language information retrieval. However, these translations are difficult to access from traditional dictionary. hhis paper proposed a method to automatically extract English translation of Chinese term from Web by search engine. It constructs three ctuery modes using the partial translation of terms, proposes multi-featured extraction method. Aim at the problem of low accuracy and unrelated translations, it verifies the candidate translations by three verification modes: side analog alignment verification, Bilingual alignment degree verification and word-building verification. Experimental results show that TOPl accuracy arrives 97. 4 %and TOP3 98. 3%.

Key words: Chinese term, Web mining, Term translation, Information retrieval