Abstract
Images naturally appear alongside text in a wide variety of media, such as books, magazines, newspapers, and in online articles. This type of multi-modal data offers an interesting basis for vision and language research but most existing datasets use crowdsourced text, which removes the images from their original context. In this paper, we introduce the KBK-1M dataset of 1.6 million images in their original context, with co-occurring texts found in Dutch newspapers from 1922 - 1994. The images are digitally scanned photographs, cartoons, sketches, and weather forecasts; the text is generated from OCR scanned blocks. The dataset is suitable for experiments in automatic image captioning, image―article matching, object recognition, and data-to-text generation for weather forecasting. It can also be used by humanities scholars to analyse photographic style changes, the representation of people and societal issues, and new tools for exploring photograph reuse via image-similarity-based search.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016. |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
| Pages | 3054-3058 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-2-9517408-9-1 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2016 |
| Event | 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Portorož , Slovenia Duration: 23 May 2016 → 28 May 2016 http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/en/ http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/index.html |
Conference
| Conference | 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
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| Abbreviated title | LREC 2016 |
| Country/Territory | Slovenia |
| City | Portorož |
| Period | 23/05/16 → 28/05/16 |
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