Semi-supervised multimodal coreference resolution in image narrations

Arushi Goel, Basura Fernando, Frank Keller, Hakan Bilen


Abstract
In this paper, we study multimodal coreference resolution, specifically where a longer descriptive text, i.e., a narration is paired with an image. This poses significant challenges due to fine-grained image-text alignment, inherent ambiguity present in narrative language, and unavailability of large annotated training sets. To tackle these challenges, we present a data efficient semi-supervised approach that utilizes image-narration pairs to resolve coreferences and narrative grounding in a multimodal context. Our approach incorporates losses for both labeled and unlabeled data within a cross-modal framework. Our evaluation shows that the proposed approach outperforms strong baselines both quantitatively and qualitatively, for the tasks of coreference resolution and narrative grounding.
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2023.emnlp-main.682
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Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11067–11081
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.682
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.682
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Arushi Goel, Basura Fernando, Frank Keller, and Hakan Bilen. 2023. Semi-supervised multimodal coreference resolution in image narrations. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 11067–11081, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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