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Are you frustrated with searching for images? Would you like to find them faster and more precisely? Would you like to be able to share digital content with friends or colleagues?

Using beingmeta's MetaKeys technology, individuals can describe images or other digital content using concepts rather than keywords. This means that you can find each other's content regardless of the particular way you label it, without having to guess at the terms or keywords that might have been used.

BabelVision guides the user in narrowing their keywords to a small set of unambiguous concepts drawn from a vast vocabulary of hundreds of thousands of concepts in multiple languages. These concepts are connected to one another, so searching automatically and intelligently bridges different but related concepts. The MetaKeys technology is fundamentally interlingual, so you are able to find an image even if someone labelled it using a different language!

You can read more about BabelVision in "BabelVision: better image searching through shared annotations" in the March/April of ACM Interactions. It is based in work on interlingual knowledge bases done at the MIT Media Laboratory. You can read about this original work in the IBM Systems Journal (Vol. 39, Nos. 3&4, 2000).

To learn more, contact us at babelvision@beingmeta.com where we can send you a demonstration account and password for the live demonstration.