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User Behaviour and Lexical Ambiguity in Cross-Language Image Retrieval

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Multilingual Information Access Evaluation II. Multimedia Experiments (CLEF 2009)

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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.

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  1. Natural Language Processing Research Group (GPLSI) , Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante,  

    Borja Navarro-Colorado, Marcel Puchol-Blasco, Rafael M. Terol, Sonia Vázquez & Elena Lloret

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  1. ISTI-CNR, Area Ricerca CNR, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. Idiap Research Institute, Rue Marconi 19, 1920, Martigny, Switzerland

    Barbara Caputo

  3. LSI-UNED, Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo

  4. Centre for Digital Video Processing, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  5. Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, 97239-3098, Portland, OR, USA

    Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

  6. University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, TechnoArk 3, 3960, Sierre, Switzerland

    Henning Müller

  7. Centrum Wiskunde and Infoormatica, Science Park 123, 1098, Amsterdam, XG, The Netherlands

    Theodora Tsikrika

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Navarro-Colorado, B., Puchol-Blasco, M., Terol, R.M., Vázquez, S., Lloret, E. (2010). User Behaviour and Lexical Ambiguity in Cross-Language Image Retrieval. In: Peters, C., et al. Multilingual Information Access Evaluation II. Multimedia Experiments. CLEF 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15751-6_4

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