Title
User behaviour and lexical ambiguity in cross-language image retrieval
Abstract
Our objective in this paper is to determine the necessity of Word Sense Disambiguation in Information Retrieval tasks, according to user behaviour. We estimate and analyse the lexical ambiguity of queries in Cross-Language Image Retrieval (using search logs from a multilingual search interface for Flickr) and measure its correlation with search effectiveness. We show to what extent the lexical ambiguity of a query can influence the successful retrieval of an image in a multilingual framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-15751-6_4
CLEF (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
search log,successful retrieval,information retrieval task,cross-language image,multilingual search interface,lexical ambiguity,user behaviour,word sense disambiguation,multilingual framework,search effectiveness,cross-language image retrieval,information retrieval,image retrieval
Cognitive models of information retrieval,Human–computer information retrieval,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Computer science,Image retrieval,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Ambiguity,Concept search,Word-sense disambiguation,Visual Word
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6242
0302-9743
3-642-15750-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Borja Navarro-Colorado1438.35
Marcel Puchol-Blasco2163.85
rafael m terol3296.89
Sonia Vázquez4173.40
Elena Lloret522929.82