Current Applied Research in Natural Language Processing is a session sponsored by SIG ALP at the ASIS 1995 Annual Meeting in Chicago. A compositional semantics procedure unifies the connected propositions into a final meaning representation. The simplicity and preciseness of the propositional structure facilitates its representation within the abstract framework of the SSL, and as a result it can be applied to a wide range of conversational English. A large image database is of little practical value without an effective indexing and retrieval mechanism.
Traditional approaches attach human generated textual tags to images.
This is often both costly and ineffective and does not address the fundamental gap between the visual and verbal modalities. Yet, in natural language conversation people are able to describe physical objects in a manner that allows listeners to accurately recognize the object of the description. The difficulty of the indexing task is indicative of our lack of understanding of how humans integrate visual and verbal information. VerbalImage is a demonstration computer system for image indexing and retrieval that integrates theories of human visual object recognition and theories of natural language processing. This system allows the user to give natural language and iconic descriptions of an object of interest.