A Comparative Investigation of Compositional Syntax and Semantics in DALL-E 2

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Hauptverfasser: Murphy, Elliot, de Villiers, Jill, Morales, Sofia Lucero
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author Murphy, Elliot
de Villiers, Jill
Morales, Sofia Lucero
author_facet Murphy, Elliot
de Villiers, Jill
Morales, Sofia Lucero
contents In this study we compared how well DALL-E 2 visually represented the meaning of linguistic prompts also given to young children in comprehension tests. Sentences representing fundamental components of grammatical knowledge were selected from assessment tests used with several hundred English-speaking children aged 2-7 years for whom we had collected original item-level data. DALL-E 2 was given these prompts five times to generate 20 cartoons per item, for 9 adult judges to score. Results revealed no conditions in which DALL-E 2-generated images that matched the semantic accuracy of children, even at the youngest age (2 years). DALL-E 2 failed to assign the appropriate roles in reversible forms; it failed on negation despite an easier contrastive prompt than the children received; it often assigned the adjective to the wrong noun; it ignored implicit agents in passives. This work points to a clear absence of compositional sentence representations for DALL-E 2.
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spellingShingle A Comparative Investigation of Compositional Syntax and Semantics in DALL-E 2
Murphy, Elliot
de Villiers, Jill
Morales, Sofia Lucero
Computation and Language
In this study we compared how well DALL-E 2 visually represented the meaning of linguistic prompts also given to young children in comprehension tests. Sentences representing fundamental components of grammatical knowledge were selected from assessment tests used with several hundred English-speaking children aged 2-7 years for whom we had collected original item-level data. DALL-E 2 was given these prompts five times to generate 20 cartoons per item, for 9 adult judges to score. Results revealed no conditions in which DALL-E 2-generated images that matched the semantic accuracy of children, even at the youngest age (2 years). DALL-E 2 failed to assign the appropriate roles in reversible forms; it failed on negation despite an easier contrastive prompt than the children received; it often assigned the adjective to the wrong noun; it ignored implicit agents in passives. This work points to a clear absence of compositional sentence representations for DALL-E 2.
title A Comparative Investigation of Compositional Syntax and Semantics in DALL-E 2
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12294