Read the Room, Read the Image: Understanding Indirect Speech Acts in Multimodal Visual Contexts

arXiv:2608.30270 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/jaeheehui/ISA-data

Terminology

• Indirect Speech Act — 31× in this paper
• Benchmark — 27× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pragmatics — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Visual Question Answering — 3× in this paper
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project — 2× in this paper
• ACT Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multimodal Integration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Analyzing the Behavior of Visual Question Answering Models
• Evaluating Large language models on Understanding Korean indirect Speech acts

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