We provide a qualitative analysis of the descriptions containing negations (no, not, n't, nobody, etc) in the Flickr30K corpus, and a categorization of negation uses. Based on this analysis, we provide a set of requirements that an image description system should have in order to generate negation sentences. As a pilot experiment, we used our categorization to manually annotate sentences containing negations in the Flickr30K corpus, with an agreement score of K=0.67. With this paper, we hope to open up a broader discussion of subjective language in image descriptions.
@article{arxiv.1606.06164,
title = {Pragmatic factors in image description: the case of negations},
author = {Emiel van Miltenburg and Roser Morante and Desmond Elliott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06164},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Accepted as a short paper for the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language, collocated with ACL 2016, Berlin