多媒体对象的组织与结构化检索

多媒体的结构化检索具有广泛的应用前景，但多媒体的检索技术尚不成熟。多媒体数据模型的复杂性，连续媒体基于内容检索的低效，以及缺乏适用的查询语言，都使得多媒体检索困难重重。英国肯特大学新近研制的多媒体检索系统在多媒体检索的相关领域取得了一定的突破。这个系统把用户视图中的多媒体对象组织成具有层次结构的虚拟数据库，使用属性来标识数据库中多媒体对象索引的特征；查询代理机允许用户直观地构造查询过程－包括一个结     

多媒体数据基于内容的查询

分析了多媒体数据与传统数据之间的异同。将多媒体数据的属性分成“内容无关”、“导出”、“用户定义”３种类型,研究了多媒体对象之间的相似特点,最后给出了４种基本查询类型。     

构建查询需求形式分类体系

查询歧义作为查询分类的子问题在信息检索领域已经得到了很多的关注,现有的研究主要是对查询内容上的歧义进行分类,而忽略了用户查询需求形式上的歧义。该文针对查询需求歧义问题进行了研究,提出了相应的查询需求分类模型。该文利用网页目录构建用户需求形式分类体系及站点列表,在大规模商业搜索引擎日志上进行用户点击覆盖检测,从而得到对查询需求形式的描述。该文的贡献在于提供了一种实际可行的查询需求分类方法,搜索引擎可以根据用户需求的区别调整排序方式,从而改善搜索性能。     

一种基于用户查询行为模型的案例查询算法

传统的案例查询算法通过被动响应用户的查询请求为用户返回与查询请求相关的案例,忽略了用户查询行为能够对案例查询过程进行指导。提出了一个基于用户查询行为模型的案例查询算法,通过收集用户的查询请求,利用用户查询行为之间的相似度建立用户查询行为的分类模型;分析了用户查询行为的分类算法,重点论述了用户查询行为模型对案例查询过程的指导过程。实验结果表明,该方法能够有效地提高查询结果召回率以及查询成功率。     

一种针对反向空间偏好top-k查询的高效处理方法

随着地理位置定位技术的蓬勃发展,基于在线位置服务技术的应用也越来越多.提出一种查询类型——反向空间偏好top-k查询.类似于传统的反向空间top-k查询,对于给定的空间查询对象,该查询返回使该对象满足top-k属性得分的那些用户.但不同的是,该对象的属性不是自身具有的特性,而是通过计算该对象与其他偏好对象之间的空间关系（如距离）而确定.这种查询在市场分析等许多重要领域具有需求,例如,根据查询结果,分析出某个地区中某个设施受欢迎的程度.但是,由于大量空间对象的存在导致对象之间空间关系的计算代价非常高,如何实时地计算出对象的空间属性得分,给查询处理带来很大的挑战.针对该问题提出优化的查询处理算法包括：数据集剪枝、数据集批量处理、基于权重的用户分组等策略.通过理论分析和充分的实验验证,证明了所提出方法的有效性.与普通方法相比,这些方法能够大幅度提高查询处理的执行时间和I/O效率.     

智能检索系统的间接查询

本文论述了有关智能数据库中的信息检索方面的间接查询问题。提出了推测用户意图、确定用户信息需求、以及能够自动地将间接查询转化为直接查询的方法。通过对智能检索系统的知识库表示、用户行为知识分析、用户行为意图推测等方面的研究，给出一个基于知识的智能检索系统的理论框架，以产生智能应答     

基于语义相似度的数据库自适应查询松弛方法

为了解决数据库空查询结果问题,提出了一种基于语义相似度的数据库自适应查询松弛方法.首先,基于初始查询条件和数据分布推测用户对查询指定属性的重视程度,据此提出了一种属性权重评估方法;然后,通过考察属性值的特征信息,分别提出了分类型属性值之间和数值型属性值之间的语义相似度评估方法;在此基础上,根据松弛阈值、属性权重和属性值...     

智能检索系统的间接查询

有关智能数据库中的信息检索方面的间接查询问题。提出推测用户意图、确定用户信息需求、以及能够自动地将间接查询转化为直接查询的方法。通过对智能检索系统的知识库表示、用户行为知识分析、用户行为意图推测等方面的研究，给出１个基于知识的智能检索系统的理论框架，以产生智能应答     

信息检索自然语言查询问句处理框架

以自然语言形式提出的查询问句不同于通常的关键词或主题词查询，需要提取用户真正要检索的信息内容。该文提出一个自然语言查询语句的处理框架，由3个部分构成：（1）离析查询问句的操作表述和信息内容；（2）凸显真正的信息需求内容；（3）对不同信息内容采取不同的词语实现方法。这一处理可望为自然语言信息检索提供准确的用户需永分析。     

智能教学系统NKI-Tutor的知识查询设计

NKI-Tutor是国家知识基础设施面向应用的智能教学系统，其功能是将NKI丰富的知识传授给用户。知识查询是NKI-Tulor给用户提供的一种查询式学习模式。该文研究如何通过NKI-Tutor的知识查询界面实现用户与智能教学系统的交互而获得所需知识，提出了基于自然语言理解的知识查询方法，用于构造和实现NKI-Tutor中用户查询知识的交互界面。该方法包括3方面内容：(1)分析用户的知识查询形式，采集用户查询句型模板；(2)根据用户查询的知识特征，把知识查询映射到概念．关系模型上；(3)通过智能分词和模糊匹配构造查询结果。     

Fuzzy query processing for document retrieval based on extendedfuzzy concept networks

In this paper, we present a new method for fuzzy query processing for document retrieval based on extended fuzzy concept networks. In an extended fuzzy concept network, there are four kinds of fuzzy relationships between concepts, i.e., fuzzy positive association, fuzzy negative association, fuzzy generalization, and fuzzy specialization. An extended fuzzy concept network can be modeled by a relation matrix and a relevance matrix, where the elements in a relation matrix represent the fuzzy relationships between concepts, and the elements in a relevance matrix indicate the degrees of relevance between concepts. The implicit fuzzy relationships between concepts can be inferred by the transitive closure of the relation matrix. The implicit degrees of relevance between concepts also can be inferred by the transitive closure of the relevance matrix. The proposed method allows the users to perform positive queries, negative queries, generalization queries, and specialization queries. The proposed method allows the users to perform fuzzy queries in a more flexible and more intelligent manner.     

面向用户的多媒体检索中的多模态界面框架设计

本文提出并设计了一种面向用户的多媒体信息检索中的多模态界面框架。该框架将知识指导、语义概念学习、自然语言处理及用户特性分析等技术于一体，从而为设计通用多媒体信息检索系统奠定了基础。     

Mapping queries to the Linking Open Data cloud: A case study using DBpedia

We introduce the task of mapping search engine queries to DBpedia, a major linking hub in the Linking Open Data cloud. We propose and compare various methods for addressing this task, using a mixture of information retrieval and machine learning techniques. Specifically, we present a supervised machine learning-based method to determine which concepts are intended by a user issuing a query. The concepts are obtained from an ontology and may be used to provide contextual information, related concepts, or navigational suggestions to the user submitting the query. Our approach first ranks candidate concepts using a language modeling for information retrieval framework. We then extract query, concept, and search-history feature vectors for these concepts. Using manual annotations we inform a machine learning algorithm that learns how to select concepts from the candidates given an input query. Simply performing a lexical match between the queries and concepts is found to perform poorly and so does using retrieval alone, i.e., omitting the concept selection stage. Our proposed method significantly improves upon these baselines and we find that support vector machines are able to achieve the best performance out of the machine learning algorithms evaluated.     

An integrated semantic-based approach in concept based video retrieval

Multimedia content has been growing quickly and video retrieval is regarded as one of the most famous issues in multimedia research. In order to retrieve a desirable video, users express their needs in terms of queries. Queries can be on object, motion, texture, color, audio, etc. Low-level representations of video are different from the higher level concepts which a user associates with video. Therefore, query based on semantics is more realistic and tangible for end user. Comprehending the semantics of query has opened a new insight in video retrieval and bridging the semantic gap. However, the problem is that the video needs to be manually annotated in order to support queries expressed in terms of semantic concepts. Annotating semantic concepts which appear in video shots is a challenging and time-consuming task. Moreover, it is not possible to provide annotation for every concept in the real world. In this study, an integrated semantic-based approach for similarity computation is proposed with respect to enhance the retrieval effectiveness in concept-based video retrieval. The proposed method is based on the integration of knowledge-based and corpus-based semantic word similarity measures in order to retrieve video shots for concepts whose annotations are not available for the system. The TRECVID 2005 dataset is used for evaluation purpose, and the results of applying proposed method are then compared against the individual knowledge-based and corpus-based semantic word similarity measures which were utilized in previous studies in the same domain. The superiority of integrated similarity method is shown and evaluated in terms of Mean Average Precision (MAP).     

基于领域本体的贝叶斯网络检索模型研究

针对传统的信息检索方法无法实现用户查询的语义理解、检索效率低等问题,本文提出基于领域本体进行查询扩展的贝叶斯网络检索模型。该模型首先将用户查询通过领域本体进行语义扩展,然后将扩展后的查询作为证据在贝叶斯网络检索模型中进行传播,进而得到查询结果,实验表明本文提出的贝叶斯网络检索模型能提高检索效率。     

Automatic content based image retrieval using semantic analysis

We present a new text-to-image re-ranking approach for improving the relevancy rate in searches. In particular, we focus on the fundamental semantic gap that exists between the low-level visual features of the image and high-level textual queries by dynamically maintaining a connected hierarchy in the form of a concept database. For each textual query, we take the results from popular search engines as an initial retrieval, followed by a semantic analysis to map the textual query to higher level concepts. In order to do this, we design a two-layer scoring system which can identify the relationship between the query and the concepts automatically. We then calculate the image feature vectors and compare them with the classifier for each related concept. An image is relevant only when it is related to the query both semantically and content-wise. The second feature of this work is that we loosen the requirement for query accuracy from the user, which makes it possible to perform well on users’ queries containing less relevant information. Thirdly, the concept database can be dynamically maintained to satisfy the variations in user queries, which eliminates the need for human labor in building a sophisticated initial concept database. We designed our experiment using complex queries (based on five scenarios) to demonstrate how our retrieval results are a significant improvement over those obtained from current state-of-the-art image search engines.     

一种基于内容相关性的跨媒体检索方法

针对传统基于内容的多媒体检索对单一模态的限制,提出一种新的跨媒体检索方法.分析了不同模态的内容特征之间在统计意义上的典型相关性,并通过子空间映射解决了特征向量的异构性问题,同时结合相关反馈中的先验知识,修正不同模态多媒体数据集在子空间中的拓扑结构,实现跨媒体相关性的准确度量.实验以图像和音频数据为例验证了基于相关性学习的跨媒体检索方法的有效性.     

基于内容的多媒体数据库系统引擎CDB

CDB(Content-based DataBase)是一种基于内容的多媒体数据库引擎，可以嵌入到通用的对象一关系数据库中，使数据库系统综合支持对多媒体数据的常规和基于内容的壹询．本文首先阐述CDB的体系结构，它把信息检索和数据检索结合到数据库中，支持多媒体数据库的基于内容的建立、操纵和维护；然后给出其层次型内容模型，描述多媒体内容的时空结构特征以及信息线索；最后描述用于CDB的基于内容信息检索技术及其设计和实现的用户壹询和操纵接口，包括示例壹询、主观颜色壹询、视频概要和浏览、扩展SQL内容壹询等．     

Fuzzy reasoning framework to improve semantic video interpretation

A video retrieval system user hopes to find relevant information when the proposed queries are ambiguous. The retrieval process based on detecting concepts remains ineffective in such a situation. Potential relationships between concepts have been shown as a valuable knowledge resource that can enhance the retrieval effectiveness, even for ambiguous queries. Recent researches in multimedia retrieval have focused on ontology modeling as a common framework to manage knowledge. Handling these ontologies has to cope with issues related to generic knowledge management and processing scalability. Considering these issues, we suggest a context-based fuzzy ontology framework for video content analysis and indexing. In this paper, we focused on the way in which we modeled our fuzzy ontology: First, we populate automatically the generated ontology by gathering various available video annotation datasets. Then, the ontology content was used to infer enhanced video semantic interpretation. Finally, considering user feedback, the content of the ontology was improved. Experimental results showed that our approach achieves the goal of scalability while at the same time allowing better video content semantic interpretation.