The Turing Center at the University of Washington, U.S., is a "multidisciplinary research center ... investigating problems at the crossroads of natural language processing, data mining, Web search, and the Semantic Web.
"The Center was established in May 2005 with a multi-million dollar gift from the Utilika Foundation, which is augmented by [U.S.] federal research grants from the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Office of Naval Research as well as support from Google." (from the Turing Center website)
Website: http://turing.cs.washington.edu/
Among its projects is "Panlingual Lexical Translation" http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/panlingual/ which has created "PanImages" http://panimages.org/ , which is "a cross-lingual image search system that enables users to issue queries in over 1,000 languages using more than 2,500,000 words, and translates the queries automatically."
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