A review of multimedia annotation techniques, in particular image annotation, is presented. The annotation requirements for the Benchmarking workpackage of the MUSCLE EU Network of Excellence are also presented and discussed. A significant contribution is the creation of a keyword vocabulary based on an analysis of keywords used in experiments for testing automated image annotation algorithms a...

This paper reviews the role of multimedia vocabulary annotation (MVA) in facilitating second language (L2) reading and listening activities. It examines the multimedia learning and multimedia language learning theories that underlie the MVA research, synthesizes the findings on MVA in the last decade, and identifies three underresearched areas on the subject.

WEB SERVICES BASED SEMI-AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES Supervisory Committee: Milena Radenkovic, PhD Department of Computer Science & IT Nowadays, multimedia resources are everywhere, surrounding us on different platforms, devices, media and technologies. More resources are created, processed and stored every day. Since people in developed coun...

This study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on the reading comprehension of Iranian intermediate level EFL learners. The two experimental groups under study received treatment on 10 academic L2 reading passages under one of two conditions: One group received treatment on key words in the reading passages through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. The second...

Practices in communities can be supported through a wide use of standard multimedia and web technologies. Lately, several research domains, especially cultural heritage management, have discovered the power of collaboration with amateurs in multimedia documentation work. Amateurs often carry knowledge they would be willing to contribute with small effort. Thus, there is a need for intuitive mul...

In spite of the development of content-based data management, text-based searching remains the primary means of multimedia retrieval in many areas. Automatic creation of text metadata is thus a crucial tool for increasing the findability of multimedia objects. Search-based annotation tools try to provide content-descriptive keywords by exploiting web data, which are easily available but unstruc...

Practices in communities can be supported through a wide use of standard multimedia and web technologies. Lately, several research domains, especially cultural heritage management, have discovered the power of collaboration with amateurs in multimedia documentation work. Amateurs often carry knowledge they would be willing to contribute with small effort. Thus, there is a need for intuitive mul...

The immense growth of mobile technologies permitted user to capture and store the multimedia files on mobile devices. It has become the hectic work for user to find a particular file of interest from huge file system of low end mobile device. In this paper we have introduced semantic file annotation technique for automatic annotation of files in mobile device. The searching and retrieval of a f...

Inside Chapter There is an increasing interest and effort in preserving and documenting endangered languages. Language data are valuable only when they are well-cataloged, indexed and searchable. Many language data, particularly those of lesser-spoken languages, are collected as audio and video recordings. While multimedia data provide more channels and dimensions to describe a language's funct...

The demand for fast access of multimedia content is growing exponentially, but unfortunately the advancement in technology is not so fast. A variety of annotation techniques are proposed by the researcher in literature, but still the demand for general annotation mechanism is exists. Among different techniques available for annotation the text analysis is the first hand technique that allows th...