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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Varying image description tasks: spoken versus written descriptions
%A van Miltenburg, Emiel
%A Koolen, Ruud
%A Krahmer, Emiel
%Y Zampieri, Marcos
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Ljubešić, Nikola
%Y Tiedemann, Jörg
%Y Malmasi, Shervin
%Y Ali, Ahmed
%S Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018)
%D 2018
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
%F van-miltenburg-etal-2018-varying
%X Automatic image description systems are commonly trained and evaluated on written image descriptions. At the same time, these systems are often used to provide spoken descriptions (e.g. for visually impaired users) through apps like TapTapSee or Seeing AI. This is not a problem, as long as spoken and written descriptions are very similar. However, linguistic research suggests that spoken language often differs from written language. These differences are not regular, and vary from context to context. Therefore, this paper investigates whether there are differences between written and spoken image descriptions, even if they are elicited through similar tasks. We compare descriptions produced in two languages (English and Dutch), and in both languages observe substantial differences between spoken and written descriptions. Future research should see if users prefer the spoken over the written style and, if so, aim to emulate spoken descriptions.
%U https://aclanthology.org/W18-3910/
%P 88-100

Markdown (Informal)

[Varying image description tasks: spoken versus written descriptions](https://aclanthology.org/W18-3910/) (van Miltenburg et al., VarDial 2018)

• Varying image description tasks: spoken versus written descriptions (van Miltenburg et al., VarDial 2018)

ACL

• Emiel van Miltenburg, Ruud Koolen, and Emiel Krahmer. 2018. Varying image description tasks: spoken versus written descriptions. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018), pages 88–100, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.