Information retrieval: search algorithms, information extraction, question answering, cross-lingual retrieval and multimedia retrieval.

信息获取：搜索算法、信息抽取、自动应答、跨语言获取、多媒体获取。

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Within a few years, the lab built up five core areas of expertise, in speech recognition, multimedia, graphics, wireless, and search, and began pumping out world-class papers and patents.

数年之内，该实验室建立了五项核心专业领域，各为语音辨识、多媒体、绘图、无线和搜寻，且开始发表世界级的论文和专利。

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Fast search of the multimedia data.

多媒体数据的快速检索。

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The project is part of a European-funded initiative, known as Smart ("search engine for multimedia environment-generated content"), which aims to create a system for internet users to search and analyse data from sensors.

BBC: Researchers work on smart city search engine

The answer to the first question is certainly leadership and innovation in the fastest growing areas of search engines, multimedia, and smartphones.

FORBES: Google's Two Secrets of Success

That is the way most of today's Web-search sites look for multimedia files--by scanning "metadata" associated with Web content.

FORBES: co-founder Sergey Brin