Leveraging Entity Information for Cross-Modality Correlation Learning: The Entity-Guided Multimodal Summarization (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (MSMO) is a new approach to produce a multimodal summary that integrates both text and relevant images. |
| Approach: | They propose an Entity-Guided Multimodal Summarization model that integrates both text and relevant images to produce a multimodal summary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model integrates text-image and entity-image information and refines image selection through knowledge distillation from a pre-trained vision-language model. |
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