Listener Model for the PhotoBook Referential Game with CLIPScores as Implicit Reference Chain

Shih-Lun Wu, Yi-Hui Chou, Liangze Li


Abstract
PhotoBook is a collaborative dialogue game where two players receive private, partially-overlapping sets of images and resolve which images they have in common. It presents machines with a great challenge to learn how people build common ground around multimodal context to communicate effectively. Methods developed in the literature, however, cannot be deployed to real gameplaysince they only tackle some subtasks of the game,and they require additional reference chains inputs, whose extraction process is imperfect. Therefore, we propose a reference chain-free listener modelthat directly addresses the game’s predictive task, i.e., deciding whether an image is shared with partner. Our DeBERTa-based listener model reads the full dialogue, and utilizesCLIPScore features to assess utterance-image relevance. We achieve >77% accuracy on unseen sets of images/game themes, outperforming baseline by >17 points.
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2023.acl-short.121
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1420–1432
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.121
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.121
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Shih-Lun Wu, Yi-Hui Chou, and Liangze Li. 2023. Listener Model for the PhotoBook Referential Game with CLIPScores as Implicit Reference Chain. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 1420–1432, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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