Cited by 246Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsTopic ModelingHandwritten Text Recognition Techniques

Are You Smarter Than a Sixth Grader? Textbook Question Answering for Multimodal Machine Comprehension

Kembhavi, Aniruddha, Seo, Minjoon, Schwenk, Dustin, Choi, Jonghyun, Farhadi, Ali, Hajishirzi, Hannaneh·2017·2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

We introduce the task of Multi-Modal Machine Comprehension (M3C), which aims at answering multimodal questions given a context of text, diagrams and images. We present the Textbook Question Answering (TQA) dataset that includes 1,076 lessons and 26,260 multi-modal questions, taken from middle school science curricula. Our analysis shows that a significant portion of questions require complex parsing of the text and the diagrams and reasoning, indicating that our dataset is more complex compared to previous machine comprehension and visual question answering datasets. We extend state-of-the-art methods for textual machine comprehension and visual question answering to the TQA dataset. Our experiments show that these models do not perform well on TQA. The presented dataset opens new challenges for research in question answering and reasoning across multiple modalities.

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Authors
Kembhavi, A., Seo, M., Schwenk, D., Choi, J., Farhadi, A., & Hajishirzi, H.
Affiliations
  • Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
Venue
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Pages
5376-5384
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2746097825
Cited by
244
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 1
FWCI
5.59
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • Seoul National University Open Repository (Seoul National University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
Keywords
junior high school science, text parsing, visual question answering, question answering dataset

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