User-generated descriptions of individual images versus labels of groups of images: A comparison using basic level theory

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1741-1753

  Rorissa, Abebe ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic level theory; Browsing; Image indexing; Image retrieval; Sorting; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; LABELING; LABELS; LIBRARIES; SEARCH ENGINES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

(E ,2E) THEORY; COGNITIVE MODELLING; ELSEVIER (CO); GENERAL (CO); IMAGE BROWSING; IMAGE BROWSING INTERFACES; IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS; INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; RETRIEVAL (MIR); SEMANTIC CONTENTS; TEXT ANNOTATIONS; TEXT QUERY; VISUAL INFORMATIONS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS; INDEXING; LABELING; LABELS; LIBRARIES; SORTING; TAXONOMY;

EID: 47349091779     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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