10. A method as recited in claim 9 , the method further comprising: identifying the contextual distribution of the visual word, the contextual distribution containing an additional visual word; and creating an inverted list entry from which to build an inverted list, the creating including recording in the inverted list entry information for the additional visual word including an identity of the additional visual word and a weight of the visual word in a contextual distribution of the additional visual word.
9. A method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising describing the image with a weighted combination of the visual contextual synonyms.