Before revision: Existing question answering datasets mostly contain homogeneous contexts, based on either textual or visual information alone. On the other hand, digitalization has evolved the nature of reading which often includes integrating information across multiple heterogeneous sources. To bridge the gap between two, we compile a Diverse Visuo-Lingustic Question Answering (DVLQA) challenge corpus, where the task is to derive joint inference about the given image-text modality  in a question answering setting.
After revision: Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however joint reasoning is still a challenge for state-of-the-art computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) systems. We propose a novel task to derive joint inference about the given image-text modality in a question answering setting.