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ACL ID | P09-2049 |
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Title | A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search |
Venue | Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics |
Session | Short Paper |
Year | 2009 |
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We query Web Image search engines with words (e.g., spring) but need images that correspond to particular senses of the word (e.g., flexible coil). Querying with poly- semous words often yields unsatisfactory results from engines such as Google Im- ages. We build an image search engine, IDIOM, which improves the quality of re- turned images by focusing search on the desired sense. Our algorithm, instead of searching for the original query, searches for multiple, automatically chosen trans- lations of the sense in several languages. Experimental results show that IDIOM out- performs Google Images and other com- peting algorithms returning 22% more rel- evant images.