DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue

Abstract

A video-grounded dialogue system is required to understand both dialogue, which contains semantic dependencies from turn to turn, and video, which contains visual cues of spatial and temporal scene variations. Building such dialogue systems is a challenging problem, involving various reasoning types on both visual and language inputs. Existing benchmarks do not have enough annotations to thoroughly analyze dialogue systems and understand their capabilities and limitations in isolation. These benchmarks are also not explicitly designed to minimise biases that models can exploit without actual reasoning. To address these limitations, in this presentation, we present DVD, a Diagnostic Dataset for Video-grounded Dialogues. The dataset is designed to contain minimal biases and has detailed annotations for the different types of reasoning over the spatio-temporal space of video. Dialogues are synthesized over multiple question turns, each of which is injected with a set of cross-turn semantic relationships. We use DVD to analyze existing approaches, providing interesting insights into their abilities and limitations. In total, DVD is built from 11k CATER synthetic videos and contains 10 instances of 10-round dialogues for each video, resulting in more than 100k dialogues and 1M question-answer pairs.

Date
Event
NTU-NLP: Monthly NLP Talks
Location
Teams Meeting

Speaker:


Henry Hung Le
Ph.D. Candidate, SMU
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Research topic: Conversational AI, Video Understanding, Task-oriented Dialogues

Bio: Hung Le is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Singapore Management University, advised by Prof. Steven Hoi and Dr. Nancy Chen. His research interest lies in natural language processing and machine learning, including research in non-autoregressive dialogue state tracking, task-oriented dialogues, and video-grounded dialogues. His research work has been published in ACL, ICLR, EMNLP, and AAAI. Hung is awarded the Computer and Information Science Scholarship by A*STAR Singapore and is a recipient of the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship from 2019 to 2021.