Papers with multimodal summarization
MLASK: Multimodal Summarization of Video-based News Articles (2023.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies on multimodal summarization have shown that the benefits of pre-training and using additional modalities in the input are not orthogonal. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to train a multimodal article summarization model by automatically crawling several news websites. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset can be used to model multimodal summarization by training a Transformer-based neural model. |
MSMO: Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that multimodal summarization can improve user satisfaction for informativeness of summaries by using information in visual modality. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to generate text and select the most relevant image from the multimodal input and a novel multimodal automatic evaluation method to evaluate multimodal outputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves user satisfaction by 12.4% compared to the current system . |
Assist Non-native Viewers: Multimodal Cross-Lingual Summarization for How2 Videos (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing multimodal summarization methods are limited to monolingual videos . a proposed task aims to generate cross-lingual summaries from multimodal inputs . |
| Approach: | They propose a task to generate cross-lingual summaries from multimodal inputs of videos . they propose fusion network that integrates multimodal and cross-linguistic information . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task outperforms existing methods on a reorganized How2 dataset on the reorganized How2 data set. |
MM-AVS: A Full-Scale Dataset for Multi-modal Summarization (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal summarization materials lacking a holistic organization by integrating resources from various modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal article and video summarization dataset that integrates resources from different modalities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset validates the important assistance role of external information for multimodal summarization. |
Pay More Attention to Images: Numerous Images-Oriented Multimodal Summarization (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing multimodal summarization approaches struggle with scenarios involving multiple images as input. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to generate multimodal summaries by integrating multiple images as input . they propose 'multimodal information evaluation' method that measures differences between generated summary and input based on multimodal input - and compares various methods . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method correlates more closely with human judgments than five widely used metrics . |
Video Discourse Parsing and Its Application to Multimodal Summarization: A Dataset and Baseline Approaches (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Fig. 1 shows the video's story structure and event relationships in discourse parsing. |
| Approach: | They propose to construct an RST tree for a video to represent its storyline and illustrate the event relationships between events. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms two existing approaches to video RST parsing: the ‘parsing after captioning’ framework and parser using visual features. |
M3Retrieve: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval for Medicine (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Strong retrieval models are increasingly important in knowledge-intensive domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate multimodal retrieval models in medical settings . they examine 1.2 million text documents and 164K multimodal queries . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model spans 5 domains,16 medical fields, and 4 distinct tasks with over 1.2 Million text documents and 164K multimodal queries. |
Towards Visually Grounded Multimodal Summarization via Cross-Modal Transformer and Gated Attention (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for multimodal summarization often inject shallow visual features into deep models, leading to representational mismatches and weak cross-modal grounding. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that performs text summarization and representative image selection . a deep visual processor aligns the visual encoder with the language model at corresponding depths . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework produces more accurate, visually grounded summaries and selects more representative images. |