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Burcu Karagol Ayan

3 accepted papers

2024

ImageInWords: Unlocking Hyper-Detailed Image Descriptions

EMNLP 2024main

Despite the longstanding adage ”an image is worth a thousand words,” generating accurate hyper-detailed image descriptions remains unsolved. Trained on short web-scraped image-text, vision-language models often generate incomplete descriptions with visual inconsistencies. We address this via a novel…

2023

PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model

ICLR 2023top-5%

Effective scaling and a flexible task interface enable large language models to excel at many tasks. We present PaLI, a model that extends this approach to the joint modeling of language and vision. PaLI generates text based on visual and textual inputs, and with this interface performs many vision,…

2021

Which Linguist Invented the Lightbulb? Presupposition Verification for Question-Answering

ACL 2021long

Many Question-Answering (QA) datasets contain unanswerable questions, but their treatment in QA systems remains primitive. Our analysis of the Natural Questions (Kwiatkowski et al. 2019) dataset reveals that a substantial portion of unanswerable questions (~21%) can be explained based on the presenc…