Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the effectiveness of employing visual clues in interactive cross-language information retrieval o assist users in selecting appropriate translation candidates for a query term. Experimental results show that by associating images collected by a Web image search, for each translation candidate, the selection of correct translations was considerably improved (by 29.3%) and the efficiency of the selection was enhanced, i.e., the elapsed time in selection was substantially reduced (by 16.7%) compared to the cases where only back-translated terms were presented. The results suggest that visual items, even if simply collected by a Web image search without any image sense disambiguation, can be superior to verbal information as clues for query term selection in target languages that the user is not familiar with.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009 |
| Pages | 100-103 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Volume | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009 - Milano, Italy Duration: 2009 Sep 15 → 2009 Sep 18 |
Other
| Other | 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009 |
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| Country | Italy |
| City | Milano |
| Period | 09/9/15 → 09/9/18 |
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Utilizing images for assisting cross-language information retrieval on the Web. / Hayashi, Yoshihiko; Bora, Savas Ali; Nagata, Masaaki.
Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009. Vol. 3 2009. p. 100-103 5286004.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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