Google Inc.

Wencong Zhang

Amitabh Saikia

Kamal Tiwari

Jyoti Sood

Venkatesh Manickavasagam

Yilin Xiong

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium determining image relevance responsive to a search query. A method includes, for each resource in a plurality of resources, wherein each resource includes one or more images and text that is separate from each of the one or more images: determining, by a data processing apparatus, and from the text of the resource, resource topics described by the text of the resource. For each of the one or more images, processing the image to determine a set of image topics that describe topics to which content depicted in the image belongs. Determining, by the data process apparatus, one or more topic match scores, wherein each topic match score is a measure of relevance one or more of the image topics of the image to one or more of the resource topics of the resource.

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