Million Book Project Partners Meeting 2010

该提案要求为“百万图书计划”合作伙伴的研究和协调会议提供资金。自2000年启动以来，百万图书工程已在中国、印度、埃及和澳大利亚扫描了160多万册图书，在大规模、多语言数据库存储和检索等相关研究领域取得了重大进展。项目合作伙伴打算继续在人机交互、可用性、使用人工智能的自动元数据检测和校正、知识产权、机器翻译和摘要、改进和提供元数据集中访问、长期数据存储和访问问题、多样性和教育等相关问题上共同努力。美国国家科学基金会提供的资金吸引了超过1亿美元的国际合作伙伴和配套资金。

This proposal requests funds for a "Million Book Project" partners research and coordination meeting. Begun in 2000, the Million Book Project has scanned over 1.6 million books in China, India, Egypt and Australia and made great strides in research areas relevant to large-scale, multi-lingual database storage and retrieval. Project partners intend to continue to work together on issues related to human computer interactions, usability, automatic metadata detection and correction using artificial intelligence, intellectual property, machine translation and summarization, improving and providing centralized access to metadata, long term data storage and access issues, diversity and education. Funding provided by the National Science Foundation has attracted international partners and matching funds exceeding $100 million U.S. dollars.