[asa] U.S. scientists have developed new technology

New search engine technology is developed
UPI ^ | 09/13/07
Posted on 09/13/2007 11:30:26 AM EDT by nypokerface
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SEATTLE, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have
developed a multilingual technology that allows
Internet users to successfully search for images
using search terms in any language.

"Images are universal but image search is not,"
said University of Washington Professor Oren
Etzioni, who led the research. "A person who
types his or her search in English won't find
images tagged in Chinese and a Dutch person won't
find images tagged in English. We've created a
collaborative tool that solves this problem."

Search engines such as Google look for images by
detecting the search term in captions and text.
But since the process looks for a string of
letters, the results are limited to the seeker's language.

The new PanImages technology automatically
translates the search term into about 300 languages.

"We want to serve the vast number of people who
don't speak one of the major languages," Etzioni
said. "As the Internet becomes more widely
available … it becomes increasingly important to
serve people who don't speak English, French or Chinese."

The new multilingual search tool developed at the
University of Washington's Turing Center was
presented in Denmark this week during the Machine Translation Summit meeting.

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