Title :
Fuzzy multilinkage thesaurus builder in multimedia information systems
Author :
Gao, Y.J. ; Lim, J.J. ; Narasimhalu, A.D.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
The thesaurus is widely used in information indexing and retrieval for vocabulary control and concept search. Conceptual relationships are usually reciprocal and many-to-many, and can hardly be described precisely. To comply with the imprecise nature of the thesaurus, we have proposed and developed a fuzzy multilinkage thesaurus builder. The builder maintains a fuzzy membership degree for each relationship. The relationships are extensible and have an inheritance capability. The applications of the fuzzy multilinkage thesaurus builder to expand the query terms for multimedia information retrieval are presented
Keywords :
fuzzy logic; indexing; information retrieval; multimedia computing; query processing; thesauri; vocabulary; concept search; fuzzy membership degree; fuzzy multilinkage thesaurus builder; information indexing; information retrieval; inheritance; multimedia information systems; query terms; vocabulary control; Explosions; Fuzzy reasoning; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy systems; Information retrieval; Information systems; Marine vehicles; Multimedia systems; Spatial databases; Thesauri;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1995., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7128-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1995.598962
