Abstract: For this year our team participated in the medical image retrieval task. Most of our effort was invested in processing the collection using Metamap to assign Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts to each of the images that included some associated text. This process generated metadata that was added to each image and included the UMLS concept number as well as the primary te...

The increasing availability of networked access to multilingual text collections has generated increased interest in the development of e ective and e cient cross-language text retrieval technology. Examples of cross-language text retrieval applications are discussed and a classi cation of known approaches is introduced. This is used to structure a comprehensive discussion of published research...

DEFINITION Text retrieval is concerned with the retrieval of documents in response to user queries. This is achieved by (i) representing documents and queries with indexing features that provide a characterisation of their information content, and (ii) defining a function that uses these representations to perform retrieval. Structured text retrieval introduces a finer-grained retrieval paradig...

This article describes the use of medGIFT and easyIR for three of four ImageCLEF 2005 tasks. All results rely on two systems: the GNU Image Finding Tool (GIFT ) for visual retrieval, and easyIR for text. For ad–hoc retrieval, two visual runs were submitted. No textual retrieval was attempted, resulting in lower scores than those using text retrieval but the best visual run. For medical retrieva...

We describe the integration of a structured-text retrieval system (TextMachine) into an object-oriented database system (OpenODB). Our approach is a light-weight one, using the external function capability of the database system to encapsulate the text retrieval system as an external information source. Yet, we are able to provide a tight integration in the query language and processing; the us...

Because of recent advances in graphics hardand software, both the production and use of 3D models are increasing at a rapid pace. As a result, a large number of 3D models have become available on the web, and new research is being done on 3D model retrieval methods. Query and retrieval can be done solely based on associated text, as in image retrieval, for example (e.g. Google Image Search [1] ...

In a story telling authoring task, an author often wants to set up meaningful connections between different media, such as between a text and photographs. To facilitate this task, it is helpful to have a software agent dynamically adapt the presentation of a media database to the user's authoring activities, and look for opportunities for annotation and retrieval. Expecting the user to manually...