PanImages Image Search Tool Speaks Hundreds Of Languages http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/news/2007/09/12/panimages-image-search-tool...
quote: PanImages' powerful brains were created by scanning more than 350 machine-readable online dictionaries. Some of these were "wiktionaries," online multilingual dictionaries written by volunteers. The PanImages software scans these dictionaries and uses an algorithm to check the accuracy of the results. It then assembles the results in a matrix that allows translation in combinations that may never have been attempted — for instance, from Gujarati to Lithuanian.
The actual search engine is here: http://www.panimages.org/index.jsp?displang=eng
And the research paper detailing the algorithm and method is here: http://turing.cs.washington.edu/papers/EtzioniMTSummit07.pdf
An idea to use Wiktionary or interwiki links to improve image search for Commons has long been kicked around. Maybe we could collaborate with them to improve the Mayflower search engine for Commons? (Or else ask them to index upload.wikimedia.org and pay attention to license metadata :)) After all, we supplied them with all this useful data for free.
cheers, Brianna
On 9/13/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
An idea to use Wiktionary or interwiki links to improve image search for Commons has long been kicked around. Maybe we could collaborate with them to improve the Mayflower search engine for Commons? (Or else ask them to index upload.wikimedia.org and pay attention to license metadata :)) After all, we supplied them with all this useful data for free.
As you may know I'm also working on a project called OmegaWiki (omegawiki.org), which is a free content dictionary built with a structured wiki. We already have 274282 expressions in many languages of the world, and another three million or so in specialized thesauri in the biomedical domain.
OmegaWiki has language-independent meaning IDs that could be used for media tagging & search as well. We've put in a request for funding a while ago for a project that would connect OmegaWiki IDs and media in Commons. In any case, we'll talk with the PanImage folks about hooking up their DB into OmegaWiki.
Erk
On 14/09/2007, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/13/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
An idea to use Wiktionary or interwiki links to improve image search for Commons has long been kicked around. Maybe we could collaborate with them to improve the Mayflower search engine for Commons? (Or else ask them to index upload.wikimedia.org and pay attention to license metadata :)) After all, we supplied them with all this useful data for free.
As you may know I'm also working on a project called OmegaWiki (omegawiki.org), which is a free content dictionary built with a structured wiki. We already have 274282 expressions in many languages of the world, and another three million or so in specialized thesauri in the biomedical domain.
OmegaWiki has language-independent meaning IDs that could be used for media tagging & search as well. We've put in a request for funding a while ago for a project that would connect OmegaWiki IDs and media in Commons. In any case, we'll talk with the PanImage folks about hooking up their DB into OmegaWiki.
"We" being OmegaWiki I presume.
Don't you think "we" WMF should also talk to them?
cheers, Brianna
On 9/14/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
"We" being OmegaWiki I presume.
Don't you think "we" WMF should also talk to them?
Putting on my WMF hat again for a minute ..
Getting paid to work on OmegaWiki, I have a declared conflict of interest with regard to any WMF decisions on this matter. But you're free to lobby other Board & staff members. ;-)