Enabling users to find effective translations automatically for
query terms not included in dictionary is one of the major goals of a practical
cross-language Web search service. This paper presents a cross-language Web search system called LiveTrans, which is an experimental
meta-search engine that provides English-Chinese cross-lingual retrieval of
both Web pages and images. The system has been implemented based on a novel
integration of Web mining approaches, including anchor-text-based and search-result-based
approaches, to extract bilingual translations of real English and Chinese
queries through the mining of Web resources. Experimental
results demonstrate the feasibility of the system for providing a practical
cross-language search service.