• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1252-1271
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• 2013

Automatic image annotation has become an increasingly important research topic owing to its key role in image retrieval. Simultaneously, it is highly challenging when facing to large-scale dataset with large variance. Practical approaches generally rely on similarity measures defined over images and multi-label prediction methods. More specifically, those approaches usually 1) leverage similarity measures predefined or learned by optimizing for ranking or annotation, which might be not adaptive enough to datasets; and 2) predict labels separately without taking the correlation of labels into account. In this paper, we propose a method for image annotation through collaborative similarity metric learning from dataset and modeling the label correlation of the dataset. The similarity metric is learned by simultaneously optimizing the 1) image ranking using structural SVM (SSVM), and 2) image annotation using correlated label propagation, with respect to the similarity metric. The learned similarity metric, fully exploiting the available information of datasets, would improve the two collaborative components, ranking and annotation, and sequentially the retrieval system itself. We evaluated the proposed method on Corel5k, Corel30k and EspGame databases. The results for annotation and retrieval show the competitive performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.366-373
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a similarity search algorithm for image databases. One of the central problems regarding content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is the semantic gap between the low-level features computed automatically from images and the human interpretation of image content. Many search algorithms used in CBIR have used the Minkowski metric (or $L_p$-norm) to measure similarity between image pairs. However those functions cannot adequately capture the aspects of the characteristics of the human visual system as well as the nonlinear relationships in contextual information. Our new search algorithm tackles this problem by employing new similarity measures and ranking strategies that reflect the nonlinearity of human perception and contextual information. Our search algorithm yields superior experimental results on a real handwritten digit image database and demonstrates its effectiveness.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1305-1314
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• 2013

The existing tag based system deducts a retrieval result with low accuracy through the usage of a single tag matching by using tags tagged in contents. And the system doesn't provide effectively contents related information which the tags have, as the users place tags on contents without considering the priority and associative relation between tags. For a solve of above problems, this paper suggests a tag ranking system which extracts semantic similarity between tags and re-ranks the tags tagged in contents. In order to evaluate the performance of suggested system, this paper experiments and compares the ranking result of this paper's tag ranking system with the result of baseline method using tags tagged in images and frequency method adapting tag co-appearance frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.94-95
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• 2006

A great deal of research has been made to model the vagueness and uncertainty in information retrieval. One such research is fuzzy ranking models, which have been showing their superior performance in handling the uncertainty involved in the retrieval process. In this study we develop a new fuzzy ranking model based on the user preference. Through the experiments on the TREC-2 collection of Wall Street Journal documents, we show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional fuzzy ranking models.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.326-331
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• 2006

A great deal of research has been made to model the vagueness and uncertainty in information retrieval. One such research is fuzzy ranking models, which have been showing their superior performance in handling the uncertainty involved in the retrieval process. In this study we develop a new fuzzy ranking model based on the user preference. Through the experiments on the TREC-2 collection of Wall Street Journal documents, we show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional fuzzy ranking models.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.1519-1533
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• 2004

When Web-based special retrieval systems for scientific field extremely restrict the expression of user's information request, the process of the information content analysis and that of the information acquisition become inconsistent. In this paper, we apply the fuzzy retrieval model to solve the high time complexity of the retrieval system by constructing a reduced term set for the term's relatively importance degree. Furthermore, we perform a cluster retrieval to reflect the user's Query exactly through the similarity relation matrix satisfying the characteristics of the fuzzy compatibility relation. We have proven the performance of a proposed re-ranking model based on the similarity union of the fuzzy retrieval model and the document cluster retrieval model.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.95-116
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• 2009

Ontologies have provided supports in integrating heterogeneous and distributed information. More and more ontologies and tools have been developed in various domains. However, building ontologies requires much time and effort. Therefore, ontologies need to be shared and reused among users. Specifically, finding the desired ontology from an ontology repository will benefit users. In the past, most of the studies on retrieving and ranking ontologies have mainly focused on lexical level supports. In those cases, it is impossible to find an ontology that includes concepts that users want to use at the semantic level. Most ontology libraries and ontology search engines have not provided semantic matching capability. Retrieving an ontology that users want to use requires a new ontology selection and ranking mechanism based on semantic similarity matching. We propose an ontology selection and ranking model consisting of selection criteria and metrics which are enhanced in semantic matching capabilities. The model we propose presents two novel features different from the previous research models. First, it enhances the ontology selection and ranking method practically and effectively by enabling semantic matching of taxonomy or relational linkage between concepts. Second, it identifies what measures should be used to rank ontologies in the given context and what weight should be assigned to each selection measure.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.1059-1068
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• 2022

Recently, research using image-based deep learning is being conducted to determine similar fonts or recommend fonts. In order to increase the accuracy in judging the similarity of Hangul fonts, a previous study was conducted to calculate the similarity according to the combination of stroke elements. In this study, we tried to solve this problem by designing an integrated model that reflects the weights for each stroke element. By comparing the results of the user's font similarity calculation conducted in the previous study and the weighted model, it was confirmed that there was no difference in the ranking of the influence of the stroke elements. However, as a result of comparison by letter sizes, it was confirmed that there was a difference in the ranking of the influence of stroke elements. Accordingly, we proposed a weighted model set separately for each font size.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.323-332
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• 2000

인터넷을 등장으로, 끊임없이 늘어나는 정보의 양은 오히려 사용자의 정보 습득을 어렵게 만들었다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 검색된 정보에 우선 순위를 부여함으로써 사용자가 원하는 정보를 선별할 수 있는 방법이 등장하였다. 하지만, 이는 사용자의 일시적인 질의만을 가지고 정보의 우선 순위를 결정하기 때문에 사용자가 다시 판단해야 하는 부담을 안게 되었다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 내용 기반의 정보 검색(Content-Based Information Retrieval) 방법과 더불어 사용자의 기호를 반영하는 사용자 선호도 기반의 정보 여과(Information Filtering) 방법, 그룹 선호도 기반의 협동적 정보 여과(Collaborative Filtering) 방법을 사용하여 사용자의 요구에 선결조건으로 하며, 구축된 선호도는 벡터로써 표현되어 정보와의 유사도(degree of similarity) 계산에 사용된다. 제안된 방법을 실험하기 위해 MFC(Microsoft Foundation Class) 관련 학습 사이트를 구현하여 사용자 등록을 받았다. 이 과정에서 사용자에게 여러 가지 프로파일을 요구하였으며, 변화하는 사용자의 기호를 반영하기 위해 지속적으로 사용자의 행동을 관찰하였다. 이렇게 구축된 사용자 선호도를 바탕으로 제안된 방법을 실험하고 사용자의 feedback을 통해 결과에 대한 평가를 받아, 논문에서 제안된 방법의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.124-129
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• 2006

This parer presents a method of ranking translation word selection for Korean verbs based on lexical knowledge contained in a bilingual Korean-English dictionary and WordNet that are easily obtainable knowledge resources. We focus on deciding which translation of the target word is the most appropriate using the measure of semantic relatedness through the 45 extended relations between possible translations of target word and some indicative clue words that play a role of predicate-arguments in source language text. In order to reduce the weight of application of possibly unwanted senses, we rank the possible word senses for each translation word by measuring semantic similarity between the translation word and its near synonyms. We report an average accuracy of $51\%$ with ten Korean ambiguous verbs. The evaluation suggests that our approach outperforms the default baseline performance and previous works.