Multimodal Contextualized Semantic Parsing from Speech

Jordan Voas, David Harwath, Ray Mooney


Abstract
We introduce Semantic Parsing in Contextual Environments (SPICE), a task designed to enhance artificial agents’ contextual awareness by integrating multimodal inputs with prior contexts. SPICE goes beyond traditional semantic parsing by offering a structured, interpretable framework for dynamically updating an agent’s knowledge with new information, mirroring the complexity of human communication. We develop the VG-SPICE dataset, crafted to challenge agents with visual scene graph construction from spoken conversational exchanges, highlighting speech and visual data integration. We also present the Audio-Vision Dialogue Scene Parser (AViD-SP) developed for use on VG-SPICE. These innovations aim to improve multimodal information processing and integration. Both the VG-SPICE dataset and the AViD-SP model are publicly available.
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2024.acl-long.398
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Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7354–7369
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Jordan Voas, David Harwath, and Ray Mooney. 2024. Multimodal Contextualized Semantic Parsing from Speech. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7354–7369, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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