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PanImages - A Great Lexical Translation Technology

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Recently, I came across a Lexical Translation technology developed at University of Washington in Seattle. It is based on the paper Lexical Translation with Application to Image Search on the Web.

"This paper presents a novel approach to lexical translation based on the translation graph. A node in the graph represents a word in a particular language, and an edge denotes a word sense shared between words in a pair of languages."

The groundwork for this paper was lead by Oren Etzioni who also happened to be the brain behind the recent acquisition by Microsoft called Farecast. Univeristy of Washington Tech Transfer has also created a demonstration site PanImages.org. Would this technology revolutionize who the web is consumed?