Can Visual Dialogue Models Do Scorekeeping? Exploring How Dialogue Representations Incrementally Encode Shared Knowledge

Brielen Madureira, David Schlangen


Abstract
Cognitively plausible visual dialogue models should keep a mental scoreboard of shared established facts in the dialogue context. We propose a theory-based evaluation method for investigating to what degree models pretrained on the VisDial dataset incrementally build representations that appropriately do scorekeeping. Our conclusion is that the ability to make the distinction between shared and privately known statements along the dialogue is moderately present in the analysed models, but not always incrementally consistent, which may partially be due to the limited need for grounding interactions in the original task.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-short.73
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
651–664
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-short.73
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-short.73
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Cite (ACL):
Brielen Madureira and David Schlangen. 2022. Can Visual Dialogue Models Do Scorekeeping? Exploring How Dialogue Representations Incrementally Encode Shared Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 651–664, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Can Visual Dialogue Models Do Scorekeeping? Exploring How Dialogue Representations Incrementally Encode Shared Knowledge (Madureira & Schlangen, ACL 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-short.73.pdf
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Code
 briemadu/scorekeeping
Data
MS COCOVisDial