Meta Platforms, Inc.
Multimodal Entity and Coreference Resolution for Assistant Systems

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing visual data from a client system associated with a user, wherein the visual data comprises images portraying one or more objects, receiving, from the client system, a user request, wherein the user request comprises a coreference to a target object, resolving the coreference to the target object from among the one or more objects, resolving the target object to a specific entity, and sending, to the client system, instructions for providing a response to the user request, wherein the response comprises attribute information about the specific entity.