Discourse Analysis for Evaluating Coherence in Video Paragraph Captions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06207v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 04:23:08 GMT
• Title: Discourse Analysis for Evaluating Coherence in Video Paragraph Captions
• Authors: Arjun R Akula, Song-Chun Zhu
• Abstract summary: We are exploring a novel discourse based framework to evaluate the coherence of video paragraphs. Central to our approach is the discourse representation of videos, which helps in modeling coherence of paragraphs conditioned on coherence of videos. Our experiment results have shown that the proposed framework evaluates coherence of video paragraphs significantly better than all the baseline methods.
• Score: 99.37090317971312
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Video paragraph captioning is the task of automatically generating a coherent paragraph description of the actions in a video. Previous linguistic studies have demonstrated that coherence of a natural language text is reflected by its discourse structure and relations. However, existing video captioning methods evaluate the coherence of generated paragraphs by comparing them merely against human paragraph annotations and fail to reason about the underlying discourse structure. At UCLA, we are currently exploring a novel discourse based framework to evaluate the coherence of video paragraphs. Central to our approach is the discourse representation of videos, which helps in modeling coherence of paragraphs conditioned on coherence of videos. We also introduce DisNet, a novel dataset containing the proposed visual discourse annotations of 3000 videos and their paragraphs. Our experiment results have shown that the proposed framework evaluates coherence of video paragraphs significantly better than all the baseline methods. We believe that many other multi-discipline Artificial Intelligence problems such as Visual Dialog and Visual Storytelling would also greatly benefit from the proposed visual discourse framework and the DisNet dataset.

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