Automatic Annotation of Text with Pictures
Aim: a novel application has emerged that automatically adds pictures to text. Objectives: Is to reduce a reader’s cognitive information processing load1 by showing relevant pictures along with input text. A reader can quickly and easily decide if the text information deserves a closer look. Existing System: Here, provides a detailed comparison of eight well-known picturing systems. 1. WordsEye,17 a text-to-3D-scene rendering system, parses text into a semantic representation and creates a 3D rendering (a scene). 2. Story Picturing Engine9 extracts keywords and matches words to a labeled image database as part of the process of story illustration. 3. ROC-MMS for Complex Sentences12 produces a multimodal (text and pictures) summary of sentences. 4. Simple Sentence Picturing18 is an effort to investigate the idea that pictures can convey simple sentences across language barriers. 5. Enriching Textbooks19 matches sections of a textbook to Internet images