中英对照读新闻》Railway firms turn to AI to shake up lost property search 铁路公司靠人工智慧将失物招领改头换面
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日本各铁路公司利用人工智慧来改善失物招领的效率。图为去年8月旅客在东京车站月台排队，等候搭乘新干线列车。（彭博社）(photo:LTN)◎ 张沛元
Gone are the days when a laborious search by hand is required to locate a missing item at the lost and found office.
得在失物招领处用手费尽找出遗失物的日子，已成为往事。
In May, Tokyo-based private railroad operator Keio Corp. introduced a service that relies on artificial intelligence to sort things out quickly.
（2023年）5月，总部位于（日本）东京的私铁业者京王，推出仰赖人工智慧来快速挑选出东西的服务。
Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu), based in Fukuoka, followed suit by starting to provide a similar service in August.
总部位于福冈的九州旅客铁道公司（JR九州）依样画葫芦，8月开始提供类似服务。
Claimants simply need a smartphone to make an inquiry.
失主只需要1支智慧型手机，即可查询（遗失物）。
First, they need to enter a description of the lost article, including any defining features, along with a photo, and date and place of loss, via an official account of the lost property search service on the Line free messaging app.
首先，失主得在免费通讯应用程式Line的失物搜寻服务官方帐号，输入有关遗失物的描述，包括任何明确特征，以及（附上）1张照片、遗失日期与地点。
The AI system taps into a database to compare the inputted information and selects candidate articles that best match the description.
人工智慧系统利用资料库来比对（失主）输入的资料，挑出与（失主的）描述最匹配的备选失物。
新闻辞典
turn to someone or something：片语，开始做某事：求助于。例句：He turned to his family for financial support.（他向家人寻求经援。）
shake up：片语，（通常为做出改进）对…进行大改组（或大调整）。
sort out：片语，整理；挑出；解决；整治某人。例句：He tried to sort out his problems.（他试图解决他的问题。）
