Multilingual finder of images in Internet
The University of Washington has created the new software that has allowed the elaboration of a finder of images that uses hundreds of different languages. The powerful finder, PanImages call, scan more than 350 dictionaries in the Network and use an algorithm to find the results suitable. The new finder will favor coverall to the users who speak languages with little presence in Internet.
“The images are universal, but the finders of images not”, explained Pray Etzoni, professor of computer science in the university of Washington that is been to the front of this project. “a person who keys in her search in English, evidently, is not going to find photographies classified in Chinese and a German will not be able to find images labeled in English. What we have done is to create a colaborativa tool to solve this problem “.
PanImages can translate to 300 languages a term search, giving agreed results to the intention of the user. The finder uses the photographic bases of Google and Flickr. PanImages is able to find 57 times more results than Google in a search made in a minority language.
“We want to serve the great number of internauts whom a majority language does not speak”, Etzioni comments. “Internet is more and more accessible in many countries that do not comprise of the industrialized nations, for that reason is more and more important to give this type of services to people who do not speak English, French or Chinese”.
Source: OjoBuscador