Clough, P., Al-Maskari, A. and Darwish, K. (2006) Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic Users. In: Peters, C., Clough, P., Gey, F.C., Karlgren, J., Magnini, B., Oard, D.W., Rijke, M.D. and Stempfhuber, M., (eds.) Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, 20-22 Sep 2006, Alicante, Spain. Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 205 - 216. ISBN 978-3-540-74998-1
Abstract
In this paper we describe our submission for iCLEF2006: an interface that allows users to search FLICKR in Arabic for images with captions in a range of languages. We report and discuss the results gained from a user experiment in accordance with directives given by iCLEF, including an analysis of the success of search tasks. To enable the searching of multilingual image annotations we use English as an interlingua. An Arabic-English dictionary is used for initial query translation, and then Babelfish is used to translate between English and French, German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish. Users are able to modify the English version of the query if they have the necessary language skills to do so. We have chosen to experiment with Arabic retrieval from FLICKR due to the growing numbers of online Middle Eastern users, the limited numbers of interactive Arabic user studies for cross-language IR to date, and the availability of resources to undertake a user study.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2007 Springer Berlin Heidelberg. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | CLEF; iCLEF; Flickr; Multilingual image search; User studies; Arabic retrieval. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2014 09:48 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:26 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_29 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78567 |