Multimodal Grounding for Language Processing

Abstract

This survey discusses how recent developments in multimodal processing facilitate conceptual grounding of language. We categorize the information flow in multimodal processing with respect to cognitive models of human information processing and analyze different methods for combining multimodal representations. Based on this methodological inventory, we discuss the benefit of multimodal grounding for a variety of language processing tasks and the challenges that arise. We particularly focus on multimodal grounding of verbs which play a crucial role for the compositional power of language.

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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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Lisa Beinborn
Assistant Prof for Natural Language Processing