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This paper explores the integration of textual and visual information for cross-language image retrieval. An approach which automatically transforms textual queries into visual representations is proposed. First, we mine the relationships between text and images and employ the mined relationships to construct visual queries from textual ones. Then, the retrieval results of textual and visual queries are combined. To evaluate the proposed approach, we conduct English monolingual and Chinese–English cross-language retrieval experiments. The selection of suitable textual query terms to construct visual queries is the major issue. Experimental results show that the proposed approach improves retrieval performance, and use of nouns is appropriate to generate visual queries. 相似文献
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综合运用基于文本与基于内容技术检索Web图像 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文介绍了基于文本和基于内容的图像检索技术，并归纳分析了Web图像的特点，指出综合运用文本和内容信息共同检索Web图像，最后对建立Web图像搜索引擎提出了建议。 相似文献
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《Information processing & management》2005,41(2):177-194
In this paper, we propose a re-ranking algorithm using post-retrieval clustering for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). In conventional CBIR systems, it is often observed that images visually dissimilar to a query image are ranked high in retrieval results. To remedy this problem, we utilize the similarity relationship of the retrieved results via post-retrieval clustering. In the first step of our method, images are retrieved using visual features such as color histogram. Next, the retrieved images are analyzed using hierarchical agglomerative clustering methods (HACM) and the rank of the results is adjusted according to the distance of a cluster from a query. In addition, we analyze the effects of clustering methods, query-cluster similarity functions, and weighting factors in the proposed method. We conducted a number of experiments using several clustering methods and cluster parameters. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an improvement of retrieval effectiveness of over 10% on average in the average normalized modified retrieval rank (ANMRR) measure. 相似文献
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基于内容的图像信息检索综述 总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13
基于内容的图像检索技术，即从大量的静止或活动视频图像库中检索包含目标物体的图像（或视频片段），在高度信息化的今天，已成为内容图像库中图像信息组织和管理不可缺少的技术，本文介绍了基于内容检索技术的进展，并对其主要方法如基于颜色、形状、纹理等静止图像检索技术以及视频检索技术进行了讨论。 相似文献
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Avi Arampatzis Konstantinos Zagoris Savvas A. Chatzichristofis 《Information processing & management》2013
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) with global features is notoriously noisy, especially for image queries with low percentages of relevant images in a collection. Moreover, CBIR typically ranks the whole collection, which is inefficient for large databases. We experiment with a method for image retrieval from multimedia databases, which improves both the effectiveness and efficiency of traditional CBIR by exploring secondary media. We perform retrieval in a two-stage fashion: first rank by a secondary medium, and then perform CBIR only on the top-K items. Thus, effectiveness is improved by performing CBIR on a ‘better’ subset. Using a relatively ‘cheap’ first stage, efficiency is also improved via the fewer CBIR operations performed. Our main novelty is that K is dynamic, i.e. estimated per query to optimize a predefined effectiveness measure. We show that our dynamic two-stage method can be significantly more effective and robust than similar setups with static thresholds previously proposed. In additional experiments using local feature derivatives in the visual stage instead of global, such as the emerging visual codebook approach, we find that two-stage does not work very well. We attribute the weaker performance of the visual codebook to the enhanced visual diversity produced by the textual stage which diminishes codebook’s advantage over global features. Furthermore, we compare dynamic two-stage retrieval to traditional score-based fusion of results retrieved visually and textually. We find that fusion is also significantly more effective than single-medium baselines. Although, there is no clear winner between two-stage and fusion, the methods exhibit different robustness features; nevertheless, two-stage retrieval provides efficiency benefits over fusion. 相似文献
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Fidel Cacheda Victor Carneiro Vassilis Plachouras Iadh Ounis 《Information processing & management》2007
The increasing number of documents that have to be indexed in different environments, particularly on the Web, and the lack of scalability of a single centralised index lead to the use of distributed information retrieval systems to effectively search for and locate the required information. In this study, we present several improvements over the two main bottlenecks in a distributed information retrieval system (the network and the brokers). We extend a simulation network model in order to represent a switched network. The new simulation model is validated by comparing the estimated response times with those obtained using a real system. We show that the use of a switched network reduces the saturation of the interconnection network, especially in a replicated system, and some improvements may be achieved using multicast messages and faster connections with the brokers. We also demonstrate that reducing the partial results sets will improve the response time of a distributed system by 53%, with a negligible probability of changing the system’s precision and recall values. Finally, we present a simple hierarchical distributed broker model that will reduce the response times for a distributed system by 55%. 相似文献
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Combining the evidence of different relevance feedback methods for information retrieval 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Joon Ho Lee 《Information processing & management》1998,34(6):681-691
It has been known that retrieval effectiveness can be significantly improved by combining multiple evidence from different query or document representations, or multiple retrieval techniques. In this paper, we combine multiple evidence from different relevance feedback methods, and investigate various aspects of the combination. We first generate multiple query vectors for a given information problem in a fully automatic way by expanding an initial query vector with various relevance feedback methods. We then perform retrieval runs for the multiple query vectors, and combine the retrieval results. Experimental results show that combining the evidence of different relevance feedback methods can lead to substantial improvements of retrieval effectiveness. 相似文献
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Yu Zhang Ye Yuan Fangda Guo Yishu Wang Guoren Wang 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2018,355(4):1967-1990
The multi-modal retrieval is considered as performing information retrieval among different modalities of multimedia information. Nowadays, it becomes increasingly important in the information science field. However, it is so difficult to bridge the meanings of different multimedia modalities that the performance of multimodal retrieval is deteriorated now. In this paper, we propose a new mechanism to build the relationship between visual and textual modalities and to verify the multimodal retrieval. Specifically, this mechanism depends on the multimodal binary classifiers based on the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) to verify whether the answers are related to the query examples. Firstly, we propose the multimodal probabilistic semantic model to rank the answers according to their generative probabilities. Furthermore, we build the multimodal binary classifiers to filter out unrelated answers. The multimodal binary classifiers are called the word classifiers. It can improve the performance of the multimodal probabilistic semantic model. The experimental results show that the multimodal probabilistic semantic model and the word classifiers are effective and efficient. Also they demonstrate that the word classifiers based on ELM not only can improve the performance of the probabilistic semantic model but also can be easily applied to other probabilistic semantic models. 相似文献
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As the volume and breadth of online information is rapidly increasing, ad hoc search systems become less and less efficient to answer information needs of modern users. To support the growing complexity of search tasks, researchers in the field of information developed and explored a range of approaches that extend the traditional ad hoc retrieval paradigm. Among these approaches, personalized search systems and exploratory search systems attracted many followers. Personalized search explored the power of artificial intelligence techniques to provide tailored search results according to different user interests, contexts, and tasks. In contrast, exploratory search capitalized on the power of human intelligence by providing users with more powerful interfaces to support the search process. As these approaches are not contradictory, we believe that they can re-enforce each other. We argue that the effectiveness of personalized search systems may be increased by allowing users to interact with the system and learn/investigate the problem in order to reach the final goal. We also suggest that an interactive visualization approach could offer a good ground to combine the strong sides of personalized and exploratory search approaches. This paper proposes a specific way to integrate interactive visualization and personalized search and introduces an adaptive visualization based search system Adaptive VIBE that implements it. We tested the effectiveness of Adaptive VIBE and investigated its strengths and weaknesses by conducting a full-scale user study. The results show that Adaptive VIBE can improve the precision and the productivity of the personalized search system while helping users to discover more diverse sets of information. 相似文献
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Measuring effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems is essential for research and development and for monitoring search quality in dynamic environments. In this study, we employ new methods for automatic ranking of retrieval systems. In these methods, we merge the retrieval results of multiple systems using various data fusion algorithms, use the top-ranked documents in the merged result as the “(pseudo) relevant documents,” and employ these documents to evaluate and rank the systems. Experiments using Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) data provide statistically significant strong correlations with human-based assessments of the same systems. We hypothesize that the selection of systems that would return documents different from the majority could eliminate the ordinary systems from data fusion and provide better discrimination among the documents and systems. This could improve the effectiveness of automatic ranking. Based on this intuition, we introduce a new method for the selection of systems to be used for data fusion. For this purpose, we use the bias concept that measures the deviation of a system from the norm or majority and employ the systems with higher bias in the data fusion process. This approach provides even higher correlations with the human-based results. We demonstrate that our approach outperforms the previously proposed automatic ranking methods. 相似文献
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Synchronous collaborative information retrieval (SCIR) is concerned with supporting two or more users who search together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. SCIR systems represent a paradigmatic shift in the way we view information retrieval, moving from an individual to a group process and as such the development of novel IR techniques is needed to support this. In this article we present what we believe are two key concepts for the development of effective SCIR namely division of labour (DoL) and sharing of knowledge (SoK). Together these concepts enable coordinated SCIR such that redundancy across group members is reduced whilst enabling each group member to benefit from the discoveries of their collaborators. In this article we outline techniques from state-of-the-art SCIR systems which support these two concepts, primarily through the provision of awareness widgets. We then outline some of our own work into system-mediated techniques for division of labour and sharing of knowledge in SCIR. Finally we conclude with a discussion on some possible future trends for these two coordination techniques. 相似文献
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《Information processing & management》2001,37(1):15-38
Vocabulary mining in information retrieval refers to the utilization of the domain vocabulary towards improving the user’s query. Most often queries posed to information retrieval systems are not optimal for retrieval purposes. Vocabulary mining allows one to generalize, specialize or perform other kinds of vocabulary-based transformations on the query in order to improve retrieval performance. This paper investigates a new framework for vocabulary mining that derives from the combination of rough sets and fuzzy sets. The framework allows one to use rough set-based approximations even when the documents and queries are described using weighted, i.e., fuzzy representations. The paper also explores the application of generalized rough sets and the variable precision models. The problem of coordination between multiple vocabulary views is also examined. Finally, a preliminary analysis of issues that arise when applying the proposed vocabulary mining framework to the Unified Medical Language System (a state-of-the-art vocabulary system) is presented. The proposed framework supports the systematic study and application of different vocabulary views in information retrieval. 相似文献
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A new concept of a bipolar query against collections of textual documents, i.e. in the context of information retrieval (IR), is introduced using recent developments in bipolar information modeling and bipolar database queries. Specifically, a particular approach to bipolar queries with an explicit “and possibly” type of an aggregation operator is used. An effective and efficient processing of such bipolar queries using standard IR data structures is briefly discussed. The bipolar queries proposed combine a flexibility provided by fuzzy logic with a more sophisticated representation of user preferences and intentions. This combination can make the search of vast resources of textual document, notably those available via the Internet, more intelligent. 相似文献
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《Information processing & management》2001,37(1):119-145
This study attempted to use semantic relations expressed in text, in particular cause-effect relations, to improve information retrieval effectiveness. The study investigated whether the information obtained by matching cause-effect relations expressed in documents with the cause-effect relations expressed in users’ queries can be used to improve document retrieval results, in comparison to using just keyword matching without considering relations.An automatic method for identifying and extracting cause-effect information in Wall Street Journal text was developed. Causal relation matching was found to yield a small but significant improvement in retrieval results when the weights used for combining the scores from different types of matching were customized for each query. Causal relation matching did not perform better than word proximity matching (i.e. matching pairs of causally related words in the query with pairs of words that co-occur within document sentences), but the best results were obtained when causal relation matching was combined with word proximity matching. The best kind of causal relation matching was found to be one in which one member of the causal relation (either the cause or the effect) was represented as a wildcard that could match with any word. 相似文献
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《Information processing & management》2019,56(4):1260-1279
This paper presents a robust and comprehensive graph-based rank aggregation approach, used to combine results of isolated ranker models in retrieval tasks. The method follows an unsupervised scheme, which is independent of how the isolated ranks are formulated. Our approach is able to combine arbitrary models, defined in terms of different ranking criteria, such as those based on textual, image or hybrid content representations.We reformulate the ad-hoc retrieval problem as a document retrieval based on fusion graphs, which we propose as a new unified representation model capable of merging multiple ranks and expressing inter-relationships of retrieval results automatically. By doing so, we claim that the retrieval system can benefit from learning the manifold structure of datasets, thus leading to more effective results. Another contribution is that our graph-based aggregation formulation, unlike existing approaches, allows for encapsulating contextual information encoded from multiple ranks, which can be directly used for ranking, without further computations and post-processing steps over the graphs. Based on the graphs, a novel similarity retrieval score is formulated using an efficient computation of minimum common subgraphs. Finally, another benefit over existing approaches is the absence of hyperparameters.A comprehensive experimental evaluation was conducted considering diverse well-known public datasets, composed of textual, image, and multimodal documents. Performed experiments demonstrate that our method reaches top performance, yielding better effectiveness scores than state-of-the-art baseline methods and promoting large gains over the rankers being fused, thus demonstrating the successful capability of the proposal in representing queries based on a unified graph-based model of rank fusions. 相似文献
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T. de Heer 《Information processing & management》1979,15(2):89-98
Good information storage and retrieval systems should not only meet the looseness of human memory but also the looseness of natural language. Our information trace method allows for the creation of mechanical systems that combine looseness with indulgence. In accordance with this method, information records consisting of pieces of natural language are attached to each other, leaving fuzzy semantic traces behind in the form of sets of three-letter-strings which have been derived from the original texts. The system calculates an “importance value” for each possible answer to a user query. Queries also may be given in the form of a simple piece of natural language. Answers are communicated to the user, if he so wishes, in descending order of “importance value” as calculated by the system. 相似文献
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《Information processing & management》2022,59(1):102743
Multi-modal hashing can encode the large-scale social geo-media multimedia data from multiple sources into a common discrete hash space, in which the heterogeneous correlations from multiple modalities could be well explored and preserved into the objective semantic-consistent hash codes. The current researches on multi-modal hashing mainly focus on performing common data reconstruction, but they fail to effectively distill the intrinsic and consensus structures of multi-modal data and fully exploit the inherent semantic knowledge to capture semantic-consistent information across multiple modalities, leading to unsatisfactory retrieval performance. To facilitate this problem and develop an efficient multi-modal geographical retrieval method, in this article, we propose a discriminative multi-modal hashing framework named Cognitive Multi-modal Consistent Hashing (CMCH), which can progressively pursue the structure consensus over heterogeneous multi-modal data and simultaneously explore the informative transformed semantics. Specifically, we construct a parameter-free collaborative multi-modal fusion module to incorporate and excavate the underlying common components from multi-source data. Particularly, our formulation seeks for a joint multi-modal compatibility among multiple modalities under a self-adaptive weighting manner, which can take full advantages of their complementary properties. Moreover, a cognitive self-paced learning policy is further leveraged to conduct progressive feature aggregation, which can coalesce multi-modal data onto the established common latent space in a curriculum learning mode. Furthermore, deep semantic transform learning is elaborated to generate flexible semantics for interactively guiding collaborative hash codes learning. An efficient discrete learning algorithm is devised to address the resulting optimization problem, which obtains stable solutions when dealing with large-scale multi-modal retrieval tasks. Sufficient experiments performed on four large-scale multi-modal datasets demonstrate the encouraging performance of the proposed CMCH method in comparison with the state-of-the-arts over multi-modal information retrieval and computational efficiency. The source codes of this work could be available at https://github.com/JunfengAn1998a/CMCH . 相似文献
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Current citation-based document retrieval systems generally offer only limited search facilities, such as author search. In order to facilitate more advanced search functions, we have developed a significantly improved system that employs two novel techniques: Context-based Cluster Analysis (CCA) and Context-based Ontology Generation frAmework (COGA). CCA aims to extract relevant information from clusters originally obtained from disparate clustering methods by building relationships between them. The built relationships are then represented as formal context using the Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) technique. COGA aims to generate ontology from clusters relationship built by CCA. By combining these two techniques, we are able to perform ontology learning from a citation database using clustering results. We have implemented the improved system and have demonstrated its use for finding research domain expertise. We have also conducted performance evaluation on the system and the results are encouraging. 相似文献