Utilizing Indirect Associations in Multimedia Semantic Retrieval Technological developments have lead to the propagation of massive amounts of data in the form of text, image, audio, and video. The unstoppable trend draws researchers’ attention to develop approaches to efficiently retrieve and manage multimedia data. The inadequacy of keyword-based search in multimedia data retrieval due to non-existent or incomplete text annotations has called for the development of a contentbased multimedia data management framework. Specifically, detecting high-level semantic concepts is one of the rapidly growing topics in this regard. In order to thoroughly identify semantic concepts in data which have different representations and are derived from different modalities, both positive and negative inter-concept correlations have been recently studied and explored to enhance the re-ranking performance. In this paper, an indirect association rule mining(IARM) approach is introduced to reveal the hidden correlation among semantic concepts. The effectiveness of IARM is evaluated by Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA). Furthermore, normalization and score integration are performed to achieve the optimal classification results. The TRECVID 2011 benchmark dataset is used to show the effectiveness of the proposed IARM factor in the re-ranking process.