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Author: Ewerth, Ralph × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2021 × DDC: 020 × WGL Institute: TIB ×

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    A Multimodal Approach for Semantic Patent Image Retrieval
    (Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen, 2021) Pustu-Iren, Kader; Bruns, Gerrit; Ewerth, Ralph
    Patent images such as technical drawings contain valuable information and are frequently used by experts to compare patents. However, current approaches to patent information retrieval are largely focused on textual information. Consequently, we review previous work on patent retrieval with a focus on illustrations in figures. In this paper, we report on work in progress for a novel approach for patent image retrieval that uses deep multimodal features. Scene text spotting and optical character recognition are employed to extract numerals from an image to subsequently identify references to corresponding sentences in the patent document. Furthermore, we use a neural state-of-the-art CLIP model to extract structural features from illustrations and additionally derive textual features from the related patent text using a sentence transformer model. To fuse our multimodal features for similarity search we apply re-ranking according to averaged or maximum scores. In our experiments, we compare the impact of different modalities on the task of similarity search for patent images. The experimental results suggest that patent image retrieval can be successfully performed using the proposed feature sets, while the best results are achieved when combining the features of both modalities.
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    Multimodal news analytics using measures of cross-modal entity and context consistency
    (London : Springer, 2021) Müller-Budack, Eric; Theiner, Jonas; Diering, Sebastian; Idahl, Maximilian; Hakimov, Sherzod; Ewerth, Ralph
    The World Wide Web has become a popular source to gather information and news. Multimodal information, e.g., supplement text with photographs, is typically used to convey the news more effectively or to attract attention. The photographs can be decorative, depict additional details, but might also contain misleading information. The quantification of the cross-modal consistency of entity representations can assist human assessors’ evaluation of the overall multimodal message. In some cases such measures might give hints to detect fake news, which is an increasingly important topic in today’s society. In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to quantify the entity coherence between image and text in real-world news. Named entity linking is applied to extract persons, locations, and events from news texts. Several measures are suggested to calculate the cross-modal similarity of the entities in text and photograph by exploiting state-of-the-art computer vision approaches. In contrast to previous work, our system automatically acquires example data from the Web and is applicable to real-world news. Moreover, an approach that quantifies contextual image-text relations is introduced. The feasibility is demonstrated on two datasets that cover different languages, topics, and domains.
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    A Fair and Comprehensive Comparison of Multimodal Tweet Sentiment Analysis Methods
    (Ithaka : Cornell University, 2021) Cheema, Gullal S.; Hakimov, Sherzod; Müller-Budack, Eric; Ewerth, Ralph
    Opinion and sentiment analysis is a vital task to characterize subjective information in social media posts. In this paper, we present a comprehensive experimental evaluation and comparison with six state-of-the-art methods, from which we have re-implemented one of them. In addition, we investigate different textual and visual feature embeddings that cover different aspects of the content, as well as the recently introduced multimodal CLIP embeddings. Experimental results are presented for two different publicly available benchmark datasets of tweets and corresponding images. In contrast to the evaluation methodology of previous work, we introduce a reproducible and fair evaluation scheme to make results comparable. Finally, we conduct an error analysis to outline the limitations of the methods and possibilities for the future work.