Premise-based Multimodal Reasoning: Conditional Inference on Joint Textual and Visual Clues
Qingxiu Dong, Ziwei Qin, Heming Xia, Tian Feng, Shoujie Tong, Haoran Meng, Lin Xu, Zhongyu Wei
Abstract
It is a common practice for recent works in vision language cross-modal reasoning to adopt a binary or multi-choice classification formulation taking as input a set of source image(s) and textual query. In this work, we take a sober look at such an “unconditional” formulation in the sense that no prior knowledge is specified with respect to the source image(s). Inspired by the designs of both visual commonsense reasoning and natural language inference tasks, we propose a new task termed “Premise-based Multi-modal Reasoning” (PMR) where a textual premise is the background presumption on each source image. The PMR dataset contains 15,360 manually annotated samples which are created by a multi-phase crowd-sourcing process. With selected high-quality movie screenshots and human-curated premise templates from 6 pre-defined categories, we ask crowd-source workers to write one true hypothesis and three distractors (4 choices) given the premise and image through a cross-check procedure.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{dong-etal-2022-premise,
title = "Premise-based Multimodal Reasoning: Conditional Inference on Joint Textual and Visual Clues",
author = "Dong, Qingxiu and
Qin, Ziwei and
Xia, Heming and
Feng, Tian and
Tong, Shoujie and
Meng, Haoran and
Xu, Lin and
Wei, Zhongyu and
Zhan, Weidong and
Chang, Baobao and
Li, Sujian and
Liu, Tianyu and
Sui, Zhifang",
editor = "Muresan, Smaranda and
Nakov, Preslav and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.66/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.66",
pages = "932--946"
}