Automatic Illustration of Short Texts via Web Images

Sandro Aldo Aramini, Edoardo Ardizzone, Giuseppe Mazzola

2015

Abstract

In this paper we propose a totally unsupervised and automatic illustration method, which aims to find onto the Web a set of images to illustrate the content of an input short text. The text is modelled as a semantic space and a set of relevant keywords is extracted. We compare and discuss different methods to create semantic representations by keyword extraction. Keywords are used to query Google Image Search engine for a list of relevant images. We also extract information from the Web pages that include the retrieved images, to create an Image Semantic Space, which is compared to the Text Semantic Space in order to rank the list of retrieved images. Tests showed that our method achieves very good results, which overcome those obtained by using a state-of-the-art application. Furthermore we developed a Web tool to test our system and evaluate results within the Internet community.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aramini S., Ardizzone E. and Mazzola G. (2015). Automatic Illustration of Short Texts via Web Images . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-088-8, pages 139-148. DOI: 10.5220/0005307301390148

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp15,
author={Sandro Aldo Aramini and Edoardo Ardizzone and Giuseppe Mazzola},
title={Automatic Illustration of Short Texts via Web Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={139-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005307301390148},
isbn={978-989-758-088-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Automatic Illustration of Short Texts via Web Images
SN - 978-989-758-088-8
AU - Aramini S.
AU - Ardizzone E.
AU - Mazzola G.
PY - 2015
SP - 139
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0005307301390148