Suchbasierte automatische Bildannotation anhand geokodierter Community-Fotos

In the Web 2.0 era, platforms for sharing and collaboratively annotating images with keywords, called tags, became very popular. Tags are a powerful means for organizing and retrieving photos. However, manual tagging is time consuming. Recently, the sheer amount of user-tagged photos available on the Web encouraged researchers to explore new techniques for automatic image annotation. The idea is to annotate an unlabeled image by propagating the labels of community photos that are visually similar to it. Most recently, an ever increasing amount of community photos is also associated with location information, i.e., geotagged. In this thesis, we aim at exploiting the location context and propose an approach for automatically annotating geotagged photos. Our objective is to address the main limitations of state-of-the-art approaches in terms of the quality of the produced tags and the speed of the complete annotation process. To achieve these goals, we, first, deal with the problem of collecting images with the associated metadata from online repositories. Accordingly, we introduce a strategy for data crawling that takes advantage of location information and the social relationships among the contributors of the photos. To improve the quality of the collected user-tags, we present a method for resolving their ambiguity based on tag relatedness information. In this respect, we propose an approach for representing tags as probability distributions based on the algorithm of Laplacian score feature selection. Furthermore, we propose a new metric for calculating the distance between tag probability distributions by extending Jensen-Shannon Divergence to account for statistical fluctuations. To efficiently identify the visual neighbors, the thesis introduces two extensions to the state-of-the-art image matching algorithm, known as Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF). To speed up the matching, we present a solution for reducing the number of compared SURF descriptors based on classification techniques, while the accuracy of SURF is improved through an efficient method for iterative image matching. Furthermore, we propose a statistical model for ranking the mined annotations according to their relevance to the target image. This is achieved by combining multi-modal information in a statistical framework based on Bayes' rule. Finally, the effectiveness of each of mentioned contributions as well as the complete automatic annotation process are evaluated experimentally.Seit der Einführung von Web 2.0 steigt die Popularität von Plattformen, auf denen Bilder geteilt und durch die Gemeinschaft mit Schlagwörtern, sogenannten Tags, annotiert werden. Mit Tags lassen sich Fotos leichter organisieren und auffinden. Manuelles Taggen ist allerdings sehr zeitintensiv. Animiert von der schieren Menge an im Web zugänglichen, von Usern getaggten Fotos, erforschen Wissenschaftler derzeit neue Techniken der automatischen Bildannotation. Dahinter steht die Idee, ein noch nicht beschriftetes Bild auf der Grundlage visuell ähnlicher, bereits beschrifteter Community-Fotos zu annotieren. Unlängst wurde eine immer größere Menge an Community-Fotos mit geographischen Koordinaten versehen (geottagged). Die Arbeit macht sich diesen geographischen Kontext zunutze und präsentiert einen Ansatz zur automatischen Annotation geogetaggter Fotos. Ziel ist es, die wesentlichen Grenzen der bisher bekannten Ansätze in Hinsicht auf die Qualität der produzierten Tags und die Geschwindigkeit des gesamten Annotationsprozesses aufzuzeigen. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, wurden zunächst Bilder mit entsprechenden Metadaten aus den Online-Quellen gesammelt. Darauf basierend, wird eine Strategie zur Datensammlung eingeführt, die sich sowohl der geographischen Informationen als auch der sozialen Verbindungen zwischen denjenigen, die die Fotos zur Verfügung stellen, bedient. Um die Qualität der gesammelten User-Tags zu verbessern, wird eine Methode zur Auflösung ihrer Ambiguität vorgestellt, die auf der Information der Tag-Ähnlichkeiten basiert. In diesem Zusammenhang wird ein Ansatz zur Darstellung von Tags als Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen vorgeschlagen, der auf den Algorithmus der sogenannten Laplacian Score (LS) aufbaut. Des Weiteren wird eine Erweiterung der Jensen-Shannon-Divergence (JSD) vorgestellt, die statistische Fluktuationen berücksichtigt. Zur effizienten Identifikation der visuellen Nachbarn werden in der Arbeit zwei Erweiterungen des Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF)-Algorithmus vorgestellt. Zur Beschleunigung des Abgleichs wird eine Lösung auf der Basis von Klassifikationstechniken präsentiert, die die Anzahl der miteinander verglichenen SURF-Deskriptoren minimiert, während die SURF-Genauigkeit durch eine effiziente Methode des schrittweisen Bildabgleichs verbessert wird. Des Weiteren wird ein statistisches Modell basierend auf der Baye'schen Regel vorgeschlagen, um die erlangten Annotationen entsprechend ihrer Relevanz in Bezug auf das Zielbild zu ranken. Schließlich wird die Effizienz jedes einzelnen, erwähnten Beitrags experimentell evaluiert. Darüber hinaus wird die Performanz des vorgeschlagenen automatischen Annotationsansatzes durch umfassende experimentelle Studien als Ganzes demonstriert

EGOlink: Supporting Editors of Online Historical Sources through Automatic Link Discovery

We propose a tool for analyzing EGO (European History Online) document collection according to the link structure. The analysis tool is pre-step towards building a (semi-)automatic approach for linking EGO articles to each other as well as to other external resources. Our aim is to assist the editorial office in performing the linking task and to increase the inter-connectivity of EGO articles

Search-based Automatic Image Annotation Using Geotagged Community Photos

In the Web 2.0 era, platforms for sharing and collaboratively annotating images with keywords, called tags, became very popular. Tags are a powerful means for organizing and retrieving photos. However, manual tagging is time consuming. Recently, the sheer amount of user-tagged photos available on the Web encouraged researchers to explore new techniques for automatic image annotation. The idea is to annotate an unlabeled image by propagating the labels of community photos that are visually similar to it. Most recently, an ever increasing amount of community photos is also associated with location information, i.e., geotagged. In this thesis, we aim at exploiting the location context and propose an approach for automatically annotating geotagged photos. Our objective is to address the main limitations of state-of-the-art approaches in terms of the quality of the produced tags and the speed of the complete annotation process. To achieve these goals, we, first, deal with the problem of collecting images with the associated metadata from online repositories. Accordingly, we introduce a strategy for data crawling that takes advantage of location information and the social relationships among the contributors of the photos. To improve the quality of the collected user-tags, we present a method for resolving their ambiguity based on tag relatedness information. In this respect, we propose an approach for representing tags as probability distributions based on the algorithm of Laplacian score feature selection. Furthermore, we propose a new metric for calculating the distance between tag probability distributions by extending Jensen-Shannon Divergence to account for statistical fluctuations. To efficiently identify the visual neighbors, the thesis introduces two extensions to the state-of-the-art image matching algorithm, known as Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF). To speed up the matching, we present a solution for reducing the number of compared SURF descriptors based on classification techniques, while the accuracy of SURF is improved through an efficient method for iterative image matching. Furthermore, we propose a statistical model for ranking the mined annotations according to their relevance to the target image. This is achieved by combining multi-modal information in a statistical framework based on Bayes' rule. Finally, the effectiveness of each of mentioned contributions as well as the complete automatic annotation process are evaluated experimentally

Recherche basée sur l’annotation automatique des images à l'aide de photos collaboratives géolocalisées

In the Web 2.0 era, platforms for sharing and collaboratively annotating images with keywords, called tags, became very popular. Tags are a powerful means for organizing and retrieving photos. However, manual tagging is time consuming. Recently, the sheer amount of user-tagged photos available on the Web encouraged researchers to explore new techniques for automatic image annotation. The idea is to annotate an unlabeled image by propagating the labels of community photos that are visually similar to it. Most recently, an ever increasing amount of community photos is also associated with location information, i.e., geotagged. In this thesis, we aim at exploiting the location context and propose an approach for automatically annotating geotagged photos. Our objective is to address the main limitations of state-of-the-art approaches in terms of the quality of the produced tags and the speed of the complete annotation process. To achieve these goals, we, first, deal with the problem of collecting images with the associated metadata from online repositories. Accordingly, we introduce a strategy for data crawling that takes advantage of location information and the social relationships among the contributors of the photos. To improve the quality of the collected user-tags, we present a method for resolving their ambiguity based on tag relatedness information. In this respect, we propose an approach for representing tags as probability distributions based on the algorithm of Laplacian Score feature selection. Furthermore, we propose a new metric for calculating the distance between tag probability distributions by extending Jensen-Shannon Divergence to account for statistical fluctuations. To efficiently identify the visual neighbors, the thesis introduces two extensions to the state-of-the-art image matching algorithm, known as Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF). To speed up the matching, we present a solution for reducing the number of compared SURF descriptors based on classification techniques, while the accuracy of SURF is improved through an efficient method for iterative image matching. Furthermore, we propose a statistical model for ranking the mined annotations according to their relevance to the target image. This is achieved by combining multi-modal information in a statistical framework based on Bayes' Rule. Finally, the effectiveness of each of mentioned contributions as well as the complete automatic annotation process are evaluated experimentally.La technologie Web 2.0 a donné lieu à un large éventail de plates-formes de partage de photos. Il est désormais possible d’annoter des images de manière collaborative, au moyen de mots-clés; ce qui permet une gestion et une recherche efficace de ces images. Toutefois, l’annotation manuelle est laborieuse et chronophage. Au cours des dernières années, le nombre grandissant de photos annotées accessibles sur le Web a permis d'expérimenter de nouvelles méthodes d'annotation automatique d'images. L'idée est d’identifier, dans le cas d’une photo non annotée, un ensemble d'images visuellement similaires et, a fortiori, leurs mots-clés, fournis par la communauté. Il existe actuellement un nombre considérable de photos associées à des informations de localisation, c'est-à-dire géo-localisées. Nous exploiterons, dans le cadre de cette thèse, ces informations et proposerons une nouvelle approche pour l'annotation automatique d'images géo-localisées. Notre objectif est de répondre aux principales limites des approches de l'état de l'art, particulièrement concernant la qualité des annotations produites ainsi que la rapidité du processus d'annotation. Tout d'abord, nous présenterons une méthode de collecte de données annotées à partir du Web, en se basant sur la localisation des photos et les liens sociaux entre leurs auteurs. Par la suite, nous proposerons une nouvelle approche afin de résoudre l’ambiguïté propre aux tags d’utilisateurs, le tout afin d’assurer la qualité des annotations. L'approche démontre l'efficacité de l'algorithme de recherche de caractéristiques discriminantes, dit de Laplace, dans le but d’améliorer la représentation de l'annotation. En outre, une nouvelle mesure de distance entre mots-clés sera présentée, qui étend la divergence de Jensen-Shannon en tenant compte des fluctuations statistiques. Dans le but d'identifier efficacement les images visuellement proches, la thèse étend sur deux point l'algorithme d'état de l'art en comparaison d'images, appelé SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features). Premièrement, nous présenterons une solution pour filtrer les points-clés SURF les plus significatifs, au moyen de techniques de classification, ce qui accélère l'exécution de l'algorithme. Deuxièmement, la précision du SURF sera améliorée, grâce à une comparaison itérative des images. Nous proposerons une un modèle statistique pour classer les annotations récupérées selon leur pertinence du point de vue de l'image-cible. Ce modèle combine différents critères, il est centré sur la règle de Bayes. Enfin, l'efficacité de l'approche d'annotation ainsi que celle des contributions individuelles sera démontrée expérimentalement

IROM: Information Retrieval-Based Ontology Matching

A crucial piece of semantic web development is the creation of viable ontology matching approaches to ensure interoperability in a wide range of applications such as information integration and semantic multimedia. In this paper, a new approach for ontology matching called IROM (Information Retrieval-based Ontology Matching) is presented. This approach derives the different components of an information retrieval (IR) framework based on the information provided by the input ontologies and supported by ontology similarity measures. Subsequently, a retrieval algorithm is applied to determine the correspondences between the matched ontologies. IROM was tested with ontology pairs taken from two resources for reference ontologies, OAEI and FOAM. The evaluation shows that IROM is competitive with top-ranked matchers on the benchmark test at OAEI campaign of 2009

Enriching Wikidata with Frame Semantics

Wikidata is a large-scale, multilingual and freely available knowledge base. It contains more than 14 million facts, however, it is still missing linguistic information. In this paper, we aim to bridge this gap by aligning Wikidata with FrameNet lexicon. We propose an approach based on word embedding to identify a mapping between Wikidata relations, called properties, and FrameNet frames and to annotate the arguments of each relation with the semantic roles of the matching frames. Early empirical results show the advantage of our approach compared to other baseline methods

Prediction of Frame-to-Frame Relations in the FrameNet Hierarchy with Frame Embeddings

Automatic completion of frame-to-frame (F2F) relations in the FrameNet (FN) hierarchy has received little attention, although they incorporate meta-level commonsense knowledge and are used in downstream approaches. We address the problem of sparsely annotated F2F relations. First, we examine whether the manually defined F2F relations emerge from text by learning text-based frame embeddings. Our analysis reveals insights about the difficulty of reconstructing F2F relations purely from text. Second, we present different systems for predicting F2F relations; our best-performing one uses the FN hierarchy to train on and to ground embeddings in. A comparison of systems and embeddings exposes the crucial influence of knowledge-based embeddings to a system’s performance in predicting F2F relations

Experimental study of multimodal representations for Frame Identification - How to find the right multimodal representations for this task?

Frame Identification (FrameId) is the first step in FrameNet Semantic Role Labeling where the correct frame is assigned to the predicate of a sentence. An automatic FrameId system takes the sentence and the predicate as input and predicts the correct frame. Current state-of-the-art FrameId systems are based on pretrained distributed word representations. For a wide range of tasks multimodal approaches are reported to be superior to unimodal approaches when textual embeddings are enriched with information from other modalities, for instance images. Regarding the task of FrameId, to the best of our knowledge, multimodal approaches have not yet been investigated and we think it deserves investigation due to the success of pretrained multimodal representations as input representations for other tasks. We want to find out whether representations that are grounded in images can help to improve the performance of our FrameId system. We report about our preliminary investigations with pretrained multimodal embeddings for FrameId