Visual Goal-Step Inference using wikiHow

Yue Yang, Artemis Panagopoulou, Qing Lyu, Li Zhang, Mark Yatskar, Chris Callison-Burch

Abstract
Understanding what sequence of steps are needed to complete a goal can help artificial intelligence systems reason about human activities. Past work in NLP has examined the task of goal-step inference for text. We introduce the visual analogue. We propose the Visual Goal-Step Inference (VGSI) task, where a model is given a textual goal and must choose which of four images represents a plausible step towards that goal. With a new dataset harvested from wikiHow consisting of 772,277 images representing human actions, we show that our task is challenging for state-of-the-art multimodal models. Moreover, the multimodal representation learned from our data can be effectively transferred to other datasets like HowTo100m, increasing the VGSI accuracy by 15 - 20%. Our task will facilitate multimodal reasoning about procedural events.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.165
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2021.emnlp-main.165v1
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2021.emnlp-main.165v2
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2167–2179
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.165
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.165
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Yue Yang, Artemis Panagopoulou, Qing Lyu, Li Zhang, Mark Yatskar, and Chris Callison-Burch. 2021. Visual Goal-Step Inference using wikiHow. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2167–2179, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Visual Goal-Step Inference using wikiHow (Yang et al., EMNLP 2021)
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Code
 yueyang1996/wikihow-vgsi
Data
wikiHow-image, COIN, HowTo100M
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