Supporting content retrieval from WWW via “basic level categories” (poster abstract)

Much bandwidth on the Internet is spent on multimel Language: Many more attributes are listed for dia feeds for a rather limited range of entertainment. words at the basic level than for the superordiHowever, as IR matures, researchers are becoming more nate, and few additional for the subordinate [5]. aware of the professional possibilities of multimedia, For physical objects and organisms, parts notably and hence in effective techniques to find such inforproliferate at the basic level [6]. Also, when people mation [l]. On WWW, systems as ‘Visual Seek’ and have to name a picture of an object at the suborQBIC perform with limited success on closed databases dinate level, they choose the word for the basic in small domains. level.