Journalistic Guidelines Aware News Image Captioning

Xuewen Yang, Svebor Karaman, Joel Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes


Abstract
The task of news article image captioning aims to generate descriptive and informative captions for news article images. Unlike conventional image captions that simply describe the content of the image in general terms, news image captions follow journalistic guidelines and rely heavily on named entities to describe the image content, often drawing context from the whole article they are associated with. In this work, we propose a new approach to this task, motivated by caption guidelines that journalists follow. Our approach, Journalistic Guidelines Aware News Image Captioning (JoGANIC), leverages the structure of captions to improve the generation quality and guide our representation design. Experimental results, including detailed ablation studies, on two large-scale publicly available datasets show that JoGANIC substantially outperforms state-of-the-art methods both on caption generation and named entity related metrics.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.419
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
5162–5175
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.419
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.419
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Cite (ACL):
Xuewen Yang, Svebor Karaman, Joel Tetreault, and Alejandro Jaimes. 2021. Journalistic Guidelines Aware News Image Captioning. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5162–5175, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Journalistic Guidelines Aware News Image Captioning (Yang et al., EMNLP 2021)
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Code
 dataminr-ai/joganic