Pragmatic Factors in Image Description: The Case of Negations
Emiel van Miltenburg, Roser Morante, Desmond Elliott · 2016
We provide a qualitative analysis of the descriptions containing negations (no, not, n't, nobody, etc) in the Flickr30K corpus, and a categorization of negation uses.Based on this analysis, we provide a set of requirements that an image description system should have in order to generate negation sentences.As a pilot experiment, we used our categorization to manually annotate sentences containing negations in the Flickr30k corpus, with an agreement score of κ=0.67.With this paper, we hope to open up a broader discussion of subjective language in image descriptions.