Annotate Wikipedia with Flickr images: concepts and case study

  • Authors:
  • Jie Xiao;Qi Tian

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX;University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

  • Venue:
  • ICIMCS '10 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Wikipedia, as an open editable resource, provides reliable knowledge and taxonomy. Contrast to the rich literal information, Wikipedia is lack of visual illustrations, like images and animations. Can we visually annotate Wikipedia concept and provide representative images according to its taxonomy? The huge amount of online social media, such as the tagged images in Flickr, is a good visual resource. Nevertheless, the noisy nature of the tags hinders itself. Based on the observation that images are often collected by the groups with common interest or topic, we propose a framework to visually annotate Wikipedia via social community. The contribution of our work is two-fold: (i) we diversely enrich Wikipedia with images based on its taxonomy; (ii) we introduce community effort to overcome the noisy nature of tags in harvesting images. This work shows our concept and community data collection of the proposed system.