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We present a general method using kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis to learn a semantic representation to web images and their associated text. The semantic space provides a common representation and enables a comparison between the text and images. In the experiments we look at two approaches of retrieving images based only on their content from a text query. We compare the approaches against a standard cross-representation retrieval technique known as the Generalised Vector Space Model.