Computational linguistics for metadata building (CLiMB): Using text mining for the automatic identification, categorization, and disambiguation of subject terms for image metadata

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-138

  Klavans, Judith L ^a   Sheffield, Carolyn ^a   Abels, Eileen ^b   Lin, Jimmy ^a   Passonneau, Rebecca ^c   Sidhu, Tandeep ^a   Soergel, Dagobert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Image access; Lexical disambiguation; Metadata extraction; Natural language processing (NLP); Subject cataloging; Word sense disambiguation (WSD)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE COMPONENTS; METADATA; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; THESAURI;

IMAGE ACCESS; LEXICAL DISAMBIGUATION; METADATA EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP); SUBJECT CATALOGING; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION (WSD);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 59849109123     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-008-0253-9     Document Type: Article

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