Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Information

Sunjae Kwon, Rishabh Garodia, Minhwa Lee, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu


Abstract
Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a task to find the image that most accurately depicts the correct sense of the target word for the given context. Previously, image-text matching models often suffered from recognizing polysemous words. This paper introduces an unsupervised VWSD approach that uses gloss information of an external lexical knowledge-base, especially the sense definitions. Specifically, we suggest employing Bayesian inference to incorporate the sense definitions when sense information of the answer is not provided. In addition, to ameliorate the out-of-dictionary (OOD) issue, we propose a context-aware definition generation with GPT-3. Experimental results show that the VWSD performance significantly increased with our Bayesian inference-based approach. In addition, our context-aware definition generation achieved prominent performance improvement in OOD examples exhibiting better performance than the existing definition generation method.
Anthology ID:
2023.acl-long.88
Volume:
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1583–1598
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.88
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.88
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Sunjae Kwon, Rishabh Garodia, Minhwa Lee, Zhichao Yang, and Hong Yu. 2023. Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Information. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1583–1598, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Information (Kwon et al., ACL 2023)
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