Abstract

SummaryThis article presents a knowledge‐based solution for retrieving English descriptions of images. We analyse the errors made by a baseline system that relies on term frequency, and we find that the task requires deeper semantic representation. Our solution is to perform incremental, task‐driven development of an ontology. Ontological features are then applied in a machine‐learning algorithm for ranking candidate image descriptions. This work demonstrates the advantage of combining knowledge‐based and statistical approaches for text retrieval, and it establishes the important result that an empirically tuned task‐specific ontology performs better than a domain‐general resource like WordNet, even on previously unseen examples. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call

Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.