Understanding image needs in daily life by analyzing questions in a social Q&A site

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2201-2213

  Yoon, Jungwon ^a   Chung, Eunkyung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; DAILY LIVES; DESCRIPTIVE METADATA; IMAGE ATTRIBUTES; INFORMATION NEED; KEYWORD SEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; ORDINARY PEOPLE; SEARCH QUERIES; SEMANTIC ATTRIBUTE;

METADATA; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 80054715356     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21637     Document Type: Article

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