Quaero (
Latin: I seek) is a European research and development program which has the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications (such as search engines).This program is supported by the
French Agency for Industrial Innovation (AII). It is a French project with the participation of several German partners. The consortium is led by
Thomson. Other companies involved in the consortium are:
France Télécom,
Exalead, Bertin Technologies, Jouve, Grass Valley GmbH, Vecsys,
LTU Technologies,
Siemens A.G. and Synapse Développement. Many public research institutes are also involved, including
LIMSI-
CNRS,
INRIA,
RWTH Aachen,
University of Karlsruhe, IRIT, Clips Imag,
GET,
INRA; as well as other public organisations such as
INA,
BNF, LIPN and
DGA.
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