TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the visual annotatability of query concepts for interactive cross-language information retrieval
AU - Hayashi, Yoshihiko
AU - Nagata, Masaaki
AU - Savas, Bora
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In interactive CLIR (Cross-Language Information Retrieval), it is crucial to provide users with useful clues for signifying the word senses that a translated query term can have. Among the possible means, visual clues can be effectively employed, as they are intuitive and language-neutral to some extent. This paper therefore examined the possibility of Web images as an intuitive and effective clue for the purpose of signifying word senses. We designed an experiment to collect human assessments of the relevance of Web images. Through statistical analyses applied to the assessment data, this paper shows: (1) the semantic class of a word sense together with familiarity is a good indicator for predicting the applicability of Web images as a word sense clue; (2) Web biases should be considered when gathering Web images, particularly for terms used as entity names.
AB - In interactive CLIR (Cross-Language Information Retrieval), it is crucial to provide users with useful clues for signifying the word senses that a translated query term can have. Among the possible means, visual clues can be effectively employed, as they are intuitive and language-neutral to some extent. This paper therefore examined the possibility of Web images as an intuitive and effective clue for the purpose of signifying word senses. We designed an experiment to collect human assessments of the relevance of Web images. Through statistical analyses applied to the assessment data, this paper shows: (1) the semantic class of a word sense together with familiarity is a good indicator for predicting the applicability of Web images as a word sense clue; (2) Web biases should be considered when gathering Web images, particularly for terms used as entity names.
KW - cross-language information retrieval
KW - interactive interface
KW - query translation
KW - visual annotation
KW - word sense
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-17187-1_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-17187-1_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650853618
SN - 3642171869
SN - 9783642171864
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 379
EP - 388
BT - Information Retrieval Technology - 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010
Y2 - 1 December 2010 through 3 December 2010
ER -