TY - GEN
T1 - Web-imageability of the behavioral features of basic-level concepts
AU - Hayashi, Yoshihiko
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24650123.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The recent research direction toward multimodal semantic representation would be further advanced, if we could have a machinery to collect adequate images from the Web, given a target concept. With this motivation, this paper particularly investigates into the Webimageabilities of the behavioral features (e.g. "beaver builds dams") of a basic-level concept (beaver). The term Web-imageability denotes how adequately the images acquired from the Web deliver the intended meaning of a complex concept. The primary contributions made in this paper are twofold: (1) "beaver building dams"-type queries can better yield relevant Web images, suggesting that the present participle form ("ing" form) of a verb ("building"), as a query component, is more effective than the base form; (2) the behaviors taken by animate beings are likely to be more depicted on the Web, particularly if the behaviors are, in a sense, inherent to animate beings (e.g., motion, consumption), while the creation-type behaviors of inanimate beings are not. The paper further analyzes linguistic annotations that were independently given to some of the images, and discusses an aspect of the semantic gap between image and language.
AB - The recent research direction toward multimodal semantic representation would be further advanced, if we could have a machinery to collect adequate images from the Web, given a target concept. With this motivation, this paper particularly investigates into the Webimageabilities of the behavioral features (e.g. "beaver builds dams") of a basic-level concept (beaver). The term Web-imageability denotes how adequately the images acquired from the Web deliver the intended meaning of a complex concept. The primary contributions made in this paper are twofold: (1) "beaver building dams"-type queries can better yield relevant Web images, suggesting that the present participle form ("ing" form) of a verb ("building"), as a query component, is more effective than the base form; (2) the behaviors taken by animate beings are likely to be more depicted on the Web, particularly if the behaviors are, in a sense, inherent to animate beings (e.g., motion, consumption), while the creation-type behaviors of inanimate beings are not. The paper further analyzes linguistic annotations that were independently given to some of the images, and discusses an aspect of the semantic gap between image and language.
KW - Imageability of complex concept
KW - Semantic feature norm
KW - Semantic gap
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
SP - 3609
EP - 3614
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Loftsson, Hrafn
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014
Y2 - 26 May 2014 through 31 May 2014
ER -