Natural-Language Retrieval of Images Based on Descriptive Captions

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 237-267

  Guglielmo, Eugene J ^a,c   Rowe, Neil C ^b,d  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Naval Postgraduate School

^c NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

H.3.1 Information Storage and Retrieval : Content Analysis and Indexing indexing methods; H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval query formulation; Linguistic processing; Search process; Selection process

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COARSE GRAIN MATCH; DESCRIPTIVE CAPTIONS; FINE GRAIN MATCH; INTELLIGENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; MULTIMEDIA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030194177     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/230538.230539     Document Type: Article

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