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Rorvig, Mark E.; Wilcox, Mark E. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1997
Discusses some of the theory underlying visual access tools for special collections, introduces a specific World Wide Web application using the technology, and indicates some of the potential of the tool for visual access to images as well as text documents. Appendices include texts of courses used for proximity calculations as well as NASA…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Sources

Rowe, Neil C.; Frew, Brian – Information Processing & Management, 1998
Explores the indirect method of locating for indexing the likely explicit and implicit captions of photographs, using multimodal clues including the specific words used, syntax, surrounding layout of the Web page, and general appearance of the associated image. The MARIE-3 system thus avoids full image processing and full natural-language…
Descriptors: Captions, Computer System Design, Indexing, Information Processing