Evaluating the WordsEye Text-to-Scene System: Imaginative and Realistic Sentences (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | WordsEye is a system for automatically converting natural language text into 3D scenes representing the meaning of that text. |
| Approach: | They evaluate WordsEye's output vs. simple search methods to find a picture to illustrate a sentence. |
| Outcome: | The WordsEye system produced imaginative sentences and realistic sentences . the results show that wordsEyed produced better results than standard image search engines . |
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