CompGuessWhat?!: A Multi-task Evaluation Framework for Grounded Language Learning (2020.acl-main)
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Alessandro Suglia, Ioannis Konstas, Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli, Desmond Elliott, Stella Frank, Oliver Lemon
| Challenge: | Approaches to Grounded Language Learning focus on a single task-based final performance measure which may not depend on desirable properties of the learned hidden representations. |
| Approach: | They propose an evaluation framework for Grounded Language Learning with Attributes based on three sub-tasks: 1) Goal-oriented evaluation; 2) Object attribute prediction evaluation; and 3) Zero-shot evaluation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates the quality of learned representations with respect to attribute grounding. |
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