An online Chinese-English academic dictionary based on bilingual literature abstracts

With the development of science and technology, many new academic terms emerge every day. But current available online or offline dictionaries can´t translate some Chinese academic terms into English correctly. In this paper, we introduce our online Chinese-English academic dictionary that extracts the proper English term according to Chinese term from the bilingual literature abstracts. The abstracts are retrieved using the Chinese term as keyword from the Chinese literature database cnki on demand. We present a new method to align the Chinese sentences with the corresponding English sentences with the help of the specific words, position and length relationship. After sentences alignment, all the corresponding English sentences of Chinese sentences that contain the Chinese term are picked up. The words that occur most frequently in these English sentences are chosen as the English term..