PanImages是新的搜寻计划计划出来从华盛顿州大学。它允许使用者搜寻图片通过本国的语言，和接受更多结果比以传统查寻。
今天，数据分析在图片旁边引导搜寻图片。比如说，搜寻“flowers"在Google回答11.4百万结果，但是如果你只说西班牙语，搜寻“flores"就回答2.2百万结果。
搜寻机械慢慢地开始允许跨语言搜索，为了归还更多的结果为人不会说普通的语言。Google就运用是二个多语言和它不允许跨语言搜索。
比较，PanImages，支撑三百多语言。使用者写问题和选择他的语言，然后可以看结果包括翻译在Google Image和Flickr。
Cross-Lingual Image Search
PanImages is a new search project coming out of the University of Washington that allows users to search for images in their native language and receive far more results than with traditional search.
Emerging search engines such as Like.com allow searches via image queries, but are far from becoming mainstream. Most image search today is conducted by an analysis of the metadata around the image. So an image search on Google for “flower” returns11.4 million results results that have the tag “flower” in the photo metadata - . But if you only speak Spanish, a search for “flores” returns just 2.2 million results.
Search engines are slowly beginning to allow cross-language queries to return more results to people who speak less popular languages. Google’s effort launched earlier this year, handles just a dozen major languages and does not address image search.
PanImages, by contrast, supports over 300 languages. Users simply type in the query and the language they are speaking and see a result set that includes translations. Clicking on a result returns Google Image and Flickr search results for that term.
The data itself is still somewhat thin, and users are asked to add translations when the site doesn’t already know what you mean. But the early results are useful, particularly if you speak a fairly obscure language. An images search for the Zulu word for refrigerator returns just two results. A similar search on PanImages returns 472,000 results.
Vocabulary - 词汇:
搜寻 = sōu xún = search
机械 = jī xiè = machine
搜寻机械 = sōu xún jī xiè = search engine
允许 = yǔnxǔ = to allow
数据 = shùjù = data
分析 = 分析 = analysis, to analyse
结果 = jiéguǒ = result
Sources - 来源:
PanImages.org (English)
PanImages.org (中文)
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