Building Japanese-Chinese Translation Dictionary Based on EDR Japanese-English Bilingual Dictionary

We launched a 5-year-project in 2006 to develop a Japanese-Chinese machine translation system for translating scientific and technical papers. As part of that project, we are currently building a Japanese-Chinese translation dictionary based on the EDR Japanese-English bilingual dictionary. This paper presents the design and construction of the Japanese-Chinese translation dictionary, including specifications for translating Japanese information into Chinese and annotating related information, tools developed for assisting manual annotation, and some result that have already been achieved.