PoliTo at SemEval-2023 Task 1: CLIP-based Visual-Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Back-Translation

Lorenzo Vaiani, Luca Cagliero, Paolo Garza

The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023) Task-1 - visual word sense disambiguation (visual-wsd) Paper

TLDR: Visual-Word Sense Disambiguation (V-WSD) entails resolving the linguistic ambiguity in a text by selecting a clarifying image from a set of (potentially misleading) candidates. In this paper, we address V-WSD using a state-of-the-art Image-Text Retrieval system, namely CLIP. We propose to alleviate
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Abstract: Visual-Word Sense Disambiguation (V-WSD) entails resolving the linguistic ambiguity in a text by selecting a clarifying image from a set of (potentially misleading) candidates. In this paper, we address V-WSD using a state-of-the-art Image-Text Retrieval system, namely CLIP. We propose to alleviate the linguistic ambiguity across multiple domains and languages via text and image augmentation. To augment the textual content we rely on back-translation with the aid of a variety of auxiliary languages. The approach based on finetuning CLIP on the full phrases is effective in accurately disambiguating words and incorporating back-translation enhance the system's robustness and performance on the test samples written in Indo-European languages.