Belief Revision Based Caption Re-ranker with Visual Semantic Information

Ahmed Sabir, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Pranava Madhyastha, Lluís Padró


Abstract
In this work, we focus on improving the captions generated by image-caption generation systems. We propose a novel re-ranking approach that leverages visual-semantic measures to identify the ideal caption that maximally captures the visual information in the image. Our re-ranker utilizes the Belief Revision framework (Blok et al., 2003) to calibrate the original likelihood of the top-n captions by explicitly exploiting semantic relatedness between the depicted caption and the visual context. Our experiments demonstrate the utility of our approach, where we observe that our re-ranker can enhance the performance of a typical image-captioning system without necessity of any additional training or fine-tuning.
Anthology ID:
2022.coling-1.487
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
Year:
2022
Address:
Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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5488–5506
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.487
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Ahmed Sabir, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Pranava Madhyastha, and Lluís Padró. 2022. Belief Revision Based Caption Re-ranker with Visual Semantic Information. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5488–5506, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Belief Revision Based Caption Re-ranker with Visual Semantic Information (Sabir et al., COLING 2022)
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Code
 ahmedssabir/belief-revision-score