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Using Coherent Semantic Subpaths to Derive Emergent Semantics

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We contend that the author of a Web page cannot completely define that document’s semantics and that semantics emerge through use. Semantics is context-sensitive. User browsing paths over a multimedia collection provide, we believe, the necessary context to derive semantics. We attempt to use information from several modalities to improve retrieval using a single modality. We have developed and tested several algorithms to detect breakpoints and cluster Web pages into groups that exhibit uniform semantics. We have also used visual-keywords to improve textual-keyword based searches.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA

    D. V. Sreenath & F. Fotouhi

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI, 48128, USA

    W. I. Grosky

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  1. KES International, 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, United Kingdom

    Mircea Gh. Negoita

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Sreenath, D.V., Grosky, W.I., Fotouhi, F. (2004). Using Coherent Semantic Subpaths to Derive Emergent Semantics. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3215. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30134-9_25

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