Quaero (Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. With the Roman conquest, Latin was spread to countries around the Mediterranean, including a large part of Europe. Romance languages such as Aragonese, Corsican, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, Spanish and others, are descended from Latin, while for I seek) is a European Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus region (Specification of borders) and the Black Sea to the southeast. Europe is bordered by the research and development program with the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications (such as search engines)[1]. The European Commission approved the aid granted by France France (pronounced /ˈfrænts/ frantss or /ˈfrɑːnts/ frahnts; French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a state in Western Europe with several of its overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, on 11 March 2008.[2]
This program is supported by the OSEO. It is a French project with the participation of several German A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, has been known and documented before AD 100. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. During the 16th century, northern Germany became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. As a modern nation-state, partners. The consortium is led by Thomson Thomson SA , formerly known as Thomson Multimedia is an French international provider of solutions for the creation, management, delivery and access of video, for the Communication, Media and Entertainment industries. Thomson’s headquarters are located in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Other main office locations include Rennes (France),. Other companies involved in the consortium are: France Télécom France Télécom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people (half outside of France) and has 192.7 million customers worldwide (2010). In 2008 the group had revenue of €53.5 billion. Its headquarters are in Place d'Alleray in, Exalead Exalead is a software company that provides search platforms and search-based applications (SBA) for consumer and business users. The company is headquartered in Paris, France, and is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (French pronunciation: [daˈso], Euronext: DSY), Bertin Technologies, Jouve, Grass Valley GmbH, Vecsys, Vecsys Research Vecsys Research is a high tech research and development company , developing technologies for multilingual, unconstrained speech-to-text transcription systems, automatic segmentation of audio data, as well as language and speaker recognition. Vecsys Research has developed speech recognition engines for conversational speech and broadcast data in, LTU Technologies, and Synapse Développement. Many public research institutes are also involved, including LIMSI-CNRS The National Center of Scientific Research is the largest governmental research organization in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe, INRIA The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. It was created in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris, part of Plan Calcul. Its first site was the historical premises of SHAPE (central command of NATO military forces), IRCAM IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The extension of the building has been designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University is a renowned research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With roughly 31.000 students enrolled in 101 courses, RWTH Aachen ranks among the three largest technical universities in Germany, University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is an academic research and education institution resulting from a merger of the university (Universität Karlsruhe (TH)) and the research center (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe). It is located in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. The university was also known as Fridericiana and was founded in 1825. It recently, IRIT, Clips Imag, GET, INRA; as well as other public organisations such as INA, BNF The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine, LIPN, and DGA.
According to the AII press release the main targeted applications can be divided in three broad classes: multimedia indexing and search tools for professional and general public use, including mobile environments; professional solutions for production, post-production, management and distribution of multimedia documents; and facilitation of access to cultural heritage such as audiovisual archives and digital libraries.
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Announcements and history
Quaero was announced by Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. Chirac was the second-longest serving President of France (two full terms, first seven years and second five), behind François Mitterrand and Gerhard Schröder Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder (German pronunciation: [ˌɡeɐ̯haɐ̯t fʁɪts kʊɐ̯t ˈʃʁøːdɐ] ; 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he during the French-German ministerial conference in April 2005. It was put forward again by Jacques Chirac in August 2005 at the inauguration of the new agency created to fund such programs, the Agence de l'innovation industrielle (AII), and in January 2006 in his New Year addresses, which substantially rose interest in the general public. Quaero was part of the first programs selected by the AII in April 2006. In December 2006 the new German government announced that it will devote its share of the funding to a slightly modified program geared toward knowledge management and semantic web, under the name of Theseus. Quaero received the approval of the European Commission in March 2008. €99m from the French government will go towards development of the program.[3]
The search engine
The search engine application has been the focus of the attention of many news articles. As a consequence, Quaero is often cited as a European competitor to Google Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the ", as well as other commercial search engines such as Yahoo Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), Microsoft's Bing Bing , is the current web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego. It went fully online on June 3, 2009, with a preview version released on June 1, 2009 and Ask.com Ask is a search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original search engine software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners,.
Quaero is not intended to be a text-based search engine but is mainly meant for multimedia search. The search engine will use techniques for recognizing, transcribing, indexing, and automatic translation of audiovisual documents and it will operate in several languages. There is also mention of automatic recognition and indexing of images.
According to an article in The Economist The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy[4], Quaero will allow users to search using a "query image", not just a group of keywords. In a process known as "image mining", software that recognises shapes and colours will be used to look for and retrieve still images and video clips that contain images similar to the query image. (The software is supplied by LTU Technologies.) A technique called "keyword propagation" will be used so that when Quaero finds a descriptionless image which contains elements of or completely matches a properly labelled image, it will append the description from the labelled image to the unlabelled one. This will ensure faster searches and a definite enrichment of the web, also linguistically, as the primary interface and query terms were supposed to be in French and German.
As France will be researching image-searching, Germany was supposed to be advancing voice clip and sound media searches, with the intention of transcribing their content to text, and translating it to other languages, before they pulled out of the project. This would also allow for "query sound clips" following the paradigm of the "query image" mentioned above.
Criticism
The French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné pointed out that the funding behind the project is dwarfed by both Microsoft or Google. Search experts Autonomy, (Financial Times) called the plan "a blatant case of misguided and unnecessary nationalism". The main issues being that: by the time of Quaero's launch, the search engine market will be a generation ahead of Quaero in media and device capabilities; some argue that Mr Chirac was more interested in defending French pride than global advancement of the Internet.[5]
According to the print edition of The Economist The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy, January 6, 2007 (pp. 5), Quaero "was reportedly scrapped" since the German part "grumbled about the cost and have indicated they will produce their own, scaled-down search engine".
German departure
On December 18, 2006, Hartmut Schauerte, a state secretary within the Ministry for Economics and Labour The Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour was a Ministry of German Federal Government between 2002 and 2005. It was created through the merger of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and one part of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs - the other part being merged with the old Federal Ministry for Health. Because the, announced during the IT-summit in Potsdam that a German consortium has put together a semantic search project called Theseus that would be distinct from Quaero[6].
The main source of disagreement was the format of the search engine, with German engineers favoring a text-based search engine and the French engineers favoring a multimedia search engine. Many German engineers also balked at what they thought was becoming too much of an anti-Google project, rather than a project driven by its own ideals[7].
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References
- ^ Les premiers programmes soutenus par l'Agence de l'innovation industrielle (AII)PDF (1.70 MiB The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for quantities of digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is 1048576bytes. The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major standards organizations. It), Press release from AII, 26-APR-06.
- ^ "europe.au". http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/418&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ "eetimes.de". http://www.eetimes.de/bus/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700854. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ Attack of the Eurogoogle, The Economist Technology Quarterly, 2006-03-11, page 8-9.
- ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (2006-04-26). "guardian.co.uk". The Guardian (London). http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1761482,00.html. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ IT-Gipfel: Quaero heißt jetzt Theseus, IT-summit: Quaero is called now Theseus
- ^ IHT Jan 2007
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