Papers by Weidong Zhan
Premise-based Multimodal Reasoning: Conditional Inference on Joint Textual and Visual Clues (2022.acl-long)
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Qingxiu Dong, Ziwei Qin, Heming Xia, Tian Feng, Shoujie Tong, Haoran Meng, Lin Xu, Zhongyu Wei, Weidong Zhan, Baobao Chang, Sujian Li, Tianyu Liu, Zhifang Sui
| Challenge: | Existing work in vision language cross-modal reasoning uses binary or multi-choice classification based on source image and textual query. |
| Approach: | They propose a task where a textual premise is the background presumption on each source image. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task is based on a dataset of 15,360 movie screenshots and human-curated premise templates from 6 pre-defined categories. |
Building an Ellipsis-aware Chinese Dependency Treebank for Web Text (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | ellipsis is a common linguistic phenomenon that some words are left out as they are understood from the context, especially in oral utterance. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Chinese dependency treebank to facilitate the parsing of web text . they propose to restore omissions and reserve contexts in the web text to improve dependency parsers . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enables the parsing of web text from online microblogs. |