Overview of the NLPCC 2022 Shared Task on Multimodal Product Summarization

Haoran Li, Peng Yuan, Haoning Zhang, Weikang Li, Song Xu, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He

Abstract: We introduce the NLPCC 2022 shared task on multimodal product summarization. This task aims at generating a condensed textual summary for a given product. The input contains a detailed product description, a product knowledge base, and a product image. 29 teams register the task, among which 5 teams submit the results. In this paper, we present the task definition, the dataset, and the evaluation results for this shared task.