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  <Title>MultilingualinteractiveexperimentswithFlickr PaulClough Departmentof InformationStudies UniversityofSheffield</Title>
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FLICKR forfree,althoughlimitedtotheuploadof
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    <Paragraph position="0"> ternative to fullcopyright). Imagesfroma wide varietyoftopicscanbeaccessedthroughFLICKR,  includingpeople,places,landscapes,objects,animalsandevents. Thismakesthecollectiona rich resourceforimageretrievalresearch.</Paragraph>
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2.2 Annotations
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      <Paragraph position="0"> In FLICKR, photosareannotatedbyauthorswith freelychosenkeywordsinanaturallymultilingual manner:mostauthorsusekeywordsintheirnative language;somecombinemorethanonelanguage.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="1"> In addition,photographshave titles,descriptions, collaborative annotations, andcommentsinmany languages. Figure5 providesan examplephoto with multilingualannotations;Figure 5 shows whatthequery&amp;quot;cats&amp;quot;retrievesfromthedatabase, comparedwithwhatthequery&amp;quot;chats&amp;quot;retrieves. Annotationsareusedbytheauthorstoorganize theirimages,andbyany userto searchon. Key-words assignedto the imagescan includeplace namesand subjectmatter, and photoscan also be submitted to online discussiongroups. This providesadditionalmetadatato the imagewhich can also be used for retrieval. An exploreutility providedby FLICKR makes use of this usergenerateddata (plus other informationsuch as  retrieval and its evaluation(M&amp;quot;uller et al., 2006, seee.g.). Imagesarenaturallylanguageindependent and oftensuccessfullyretrieved with associatedtexts. This has been exploredas part of ImageCLEF(Cloughet al., 2005)for areassuch as informationaccessto medicalimagesandhistoricphotographs.Thewayinwhichuserssearch null  Given the multilingualnatureof the FLICKR annotations,translatingthe user's searchrequest would provide the opportunityof increasingthe numberof imagesfoundand make moreof the collectionaccessibleto a wider range of users regardlessof their languageskills. The aim of iCLEFusingFLICKR will be to determinehow cross-languagetechnologiescould enhanceaccess, and explore the user interactionresulting fromthis.</Paragraph>
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