Procedural Reasoning Networks for Understanding Multimodal Procedures

Mustafa Sercan Amac, Semih Yagcioglu, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem


Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of comprehending procedural commonsense knowledge. This is a challenging task as it requires identifying key entities, keeping track of their state changes, and understanding temporal and causal relations. Contrary to most of the previous work, in this study, we do not rely on strong inductive bias and explore the question of how multimodality can be exploited to provide a complementary semantic signal. Towards this end, we introduce a new entity-aware neural comprehension model augmented with external relational memory units. Our model learns to dynamically update entity states in relation to each other while reading the text instructions. Our experimental analysis on the visual reasoning tasks in the recently proposed RecipeQA dataset reveals that our approach improves the accuracy of the previously reported models by a large margin. Moreover, we find that our model learns effective dynamic representations of entities even though we do not use any supervision at the level of entity states.
Anthology ID:
K19-1041
Volume:
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Mohit Bansal, Aline Villavicencio
Venue:
CoNLL
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SIGNLL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
441–451
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/K19-1041
DOI:
10.18653/v1/K19-1041
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Cite (ACL):
Mustafa Sercan Amac, Semih Yagcioglu, Aykut Erdem, and Erkut Erdem. 2019. Procedural Reasoning Networks for Understanding Multimodal Procedures. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 441–451, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Procedural Reasoning Networks for Understanding Multimodal Procedures (Amac et al., CoNLL 2019)
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https://aclanthology.org/K19-1041.pdf
Data
RecipeQA