Chicken or egg theory: do we truly know how they search?

Many factors hinder image searching on the web, including an overabundance of available images, along with an indexing vocabulary that is incomprehensible or too specialized to be useful. In addition, users do not necessarily seek the same image with the same concepts or with the same terms. This ar...

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Published in:Indexer 2011-12, Vol.29 (4), p.150-156
Main Author: MENARD, Elaine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Exact sciences and technology
Information and communication sciences
Information and document structure and analysis
Information processing and retrieval
Information science. Documentation
Sciences and techniques of general use
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Summary:Many factors hinder image searching on the web, including an overabundance of available images, along with an indexing vocabulary that is incomprehensible or too specialized to be useful. In addition, users do not necessarily seek the same image with the same concepts or with the same terms. This article presents the preliminary results of a study proposing to explore the behaviours of image searchers in order to extract relevant knowledge for the eventual development of a bilingual taxonomy (French and English) dedicated to indexing ordinary digital images that could be used in both monolingual and multilingual retrieval contexts.
ISSN:0019-4131
1756-0632
DOI:10.3828/indexer.2011.42