Yi-Jun Chen
2026
Read the Room, Read the Image: Understanding Indirect Speech Acts in Multimodal Visual Contexts
Jaehee Kim | Ji Hoon Chung | Seoyoon Park | Unsol Kim | Kyungwon Park | JiHak Kim | Yi-Jun Chen | Hansaem Kim
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Jaehee Kim | Ji Hoon Chung | Seoyoon Park | Unsol Kim | Kyungwon Park | JiHak Kim | Yi-Jun Chen | Hansaem Kim
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Indirect speech acts (ISAs) require pragmatic reasoning over context, as directive intent cannot be inferred from surface form alone. Prior text-based studies and existing multimodal benchmarks largely overlook this requirement, focusing instead on explicitly encoded context or perceptual recognition, and thus underexplore context-dependent pragmatic understanding—particularly in high-context languages such as Korean. We introduce READI, a multimodal benchmark for evaluating ISA understanding through integrated reasoning over visual context and dialogue. READI models graded indirectness grounded in pragmatic theory and formulates the task as vision-based pragmatic question answering (V-PQA), supporting cross-lingual evaluation in English and Korean. Experiments show that even state-of-the-art multimodal models struggle with visually grounded indirect speech acts, with performance declining as indirectness increases, underscoring the need for benchmarks that explicitly target contextual pragmatic reasoning.
2005
Extended-HowNet: A Representational Framework for Concepts
Keh-Jiann Chen | Shu-Ling Huang | Yueh-Yin Shih | Yi-Jun Chen
Proceedings of OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources
Keh-Jiann Chen | Shu-Ling Huang | Yueh-Yin Shih | Yi-Jun Chen
Proceedings of OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources