Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation

Spandana Gella; Desmond Elliott; Frank Keller

doi:10.18653/v1/N19-1200

Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation

Spandana Gella, Desmond Elliott, Frank Keller

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Abstract

Recent work has shown that visual context improves cross-lingual sense disambiguation for nouns. We extend this line of work to the more challenging task of cross-lingual verb sense disambiguation, introducing the MultiSense dataset of 9,504 images annotated with English, German, and Spanish verbs. Each image in MultiSense is annotated with an English verb and its translation in German or Spanish. We show that cross-lingual verb sense disambiguation models benefit from visual context, compared to unimodal baselines. We also show that the verb sense predicted by our best disambiguation model can improve the results of a text-only machine translation system when used for a multimodal translation task.

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Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
Number of pages	7
Place of Publication	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publication date	1 Jun 2019
Pages	1998-2004
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1200
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2019

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Gella, S., Elliott, D., & Keller, F. (2019). Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) (pp. 1998-2004). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1200

Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. / Gella, Spandana; Elliott, Desmond; Keller, Frank.

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Minneapolis, Minnesota : Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019. p. 1998-2004.

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Gella, S, Elliott, D & Keller, F 2019, Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 1998-2004. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1200

Gella S, Elliott D, Keller F. Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2019. p. 1998-2004 doi: 10.18653/v1/N19-1200

Gella, Spandana ; Elliott, Desmond ; Keller, Frank. / Cross-lingual Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). Minneapolis, Minnesota : Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019. pp. 1998-2004

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