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Multi-VQG: Generating Engaging Questions for Multiple Images

Computation and Language 2022-11-21 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

Generating engaging content has drawn much recent attention in the NLP community. Asking questions is a natural way to respond to photos and promote awareness. However, most answers to questions in traditional question-answering (QA) datasets are factoids, which reduce individuals' willingness to answer. Furthermore, traditional visual question generation (VQG) confines the source data for question generation to single images, resulting in a limited ability to comprehend time-series information of the underlying event. In this paper, we propose generating engaging questions from multiple images. We present MVQG, a new dataset, and establish a series of baselines, including both end-to-end and dual-stage architectures. Results show that building stories behind the image sequence enables models to generate engaging questions, which confirms our assumption that people typically construct a picture of the event in their minds before asking questions. These results open up an exciting challenge for visual-and-language models to implicitly construct a story behind a series of photos to allow for creativity and experience sharing and hence draw attention to downstream applications.

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@article{arxiv.2211.07441,
  title  = {Multi-VQG: Generating Engaging Questions for Multiple Images},
  author = {Min-Hsuan Yeh and Vicent Chen and Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Haung and Lun-Wei Ku},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.07441},
  year   = {2022}
}

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In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022)

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