Inferring depictions in natural-language captions for efficient access to picture data
By: Neil C. Rowe
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of Computer Science
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: DATA DISPLAYS; PICTURES; NATURAL LANGUAGE
Other titles: NPS-CS-93-007.
Description: Multimedia data can require significant examination time to find desired features      ('content analysis'). An alternative is using natural-language captions to describe the      data, and matching captions to English queries. But it is hard to include everything in the      caption of a complicated datum, so significant content analysis may still seem required.      We discuss linguistic clues in captions, both syntactic and semantic, than can simplify or      eliminate content analysis. We introduce the notion of concept depiction and rules for      depiction inference. Our approach is implemented in an expert system which      demonstrated significant increases in recall in experiments. Caption, Multimedia,      Information retrieval, Natural language, Parsing, Reference, Prolog
Notes: Title from cover.

"NPS-CS-93-007."

"July 1993."

"Technical report October 1, 1992 to July 1993."

AD A271 396.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-18).

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