Title
BVideoQA: Online English-Chinese bilingual video question answering
Abstract
This article presents a bilingual video question answering (QA) system, namely BVideoQA, which allows users to retrieve Chinese videos through English or Chinese natural language questions. Our method first extracts an optimal one-to-one string pattern matching according to the proposed dense and long N-gram match. On the basis of the matched string patterns, it gives a passage score based on our term-weighting scheme. The main contributions of this approach to multimedia information retrieval literatures include: (a) development of a truly bilingual video QA system, (b) presentation of a robust bilingual passage retrieval algorithm to handle no-word-boundary languages such as Chinese and Japanese, (c) development of a large-scale bilingual video QA corpus for system evaluation, and (d) comparisons of seven top-performing retrieval methods under the fair conditions. The experimental studies indicate that our method is superior to other existing approaches in terms of precision and main rank reciprocal rates. When ported to English, encouraging empirical results also are obtained. Our method is very important to Asian-like languages since the development of a word tokenizer is optional. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1002/asi.v60:3
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
question answering,pattern matching,natural language
Information system,Reciprocal,Data mining,Computer science,Multimedia information retrieval,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Lexical analysis,Question answering,Information retrieval,Natural language,Porting,Pattern matching
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
60
3
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
26
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yue-Shi Lee154341.14
Yu-Chieh Wu224723.16
Jie-Chi Yang335043.91