Leverage Points in Modality Shifts: Comparing Language-only and Multimodal Word Representations (2023.starsem-1)
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| Challenge: | a recent study of the effect of visual grounding on language representations has given a new life to the debate around extractability and quality of semantic information in representations trained solely on textual input. |
| Approach: | They compare word embeddings from vision-and-language models to text-only models . they identify meaning properties and relations that characterize words whose embeddements are most affected by visual grounding . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model differs from text-only models on semantic representations of language . the study is the first large-scale study of the effect of visual grounding on language representations . |
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