@inproceedings{larsson-etal-2026-visual,
    title = "Visual Question Answering and the relation between language, perception and the world",
    author = "Larsson, Staffan  and
      Noble, Bill  and
      Cooper, Robin",
    editor = "Yanaka, Hitomi  and
      Abzianidze, Lasha",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning ({NALOMA})",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Prague, Czechia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-naloma/2026.naloma-1.8/",
    pages = "60--70",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-389-0",
    abstract = "We outline a general account of VQA using a perception-oriented formal semantic framework. We believe that it is instructive to describe VQA not only in terms of an engineering challenge, but also as a linguistically and philosophically relevant task that can help us better understand the relation between language, perception and the world. Specifically, we will argue that linguistic meaning helps us structure our takes on visual scenes, enabling us to classify situations so that we e.g. can answer questions and determine whether a sentence correctly describes a scene."
}