Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Information
Sunjae Kwon, Rishabh Garodia, Minhwa Lee, Zhichao Yang, Hong Zhi Yu · 2023
Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a task to find the image that most accurately depicts the correct sense of the target word for the given context.Previously, image-text matching models often suffered from recognizing polysemous words.This paper introduces an unsupervised VWSD approach that uses gloss information of an external lexical knowledge-base, especially the sense definitions.Specifically, we suggest employing Bayesian inference to incorporate the sense definitions when sense information of the answer is not provided.In addition, to ameliorate the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) issue, we propose a context-aware definition generation with GPT-3.Experimental results show that VWSD performance increased significantly with our Bayesian inference-based approach.In addition, our context-aware definition generation achieved prominent performance improvement in OOV examples exhibiting better performance than the existing definition generation method.