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New typology aids analysis of chart-image coherence in scientific papers

Researchers have developed a new typology, R1 through R5, to systematically analyze the coherence between charts, images, and text in scientific publications. This framework, derived from analyzing 79 traumatic brain injury papers, helps identify where the interpretation of multimodal units succeeds or fails. The typology was validated by predicting how experts and non-experts would judge descriptions from vision-language models, highlighting the role of contextual knowledge in understanding scientific claims. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Avina Nakarmi, Sohom Sen, Xun Song, Sreyashi Samaddar, Aritra Dasgupta ·

    A Multimodal Reasoning Typology for Grounding Chart-Image Coherence in Science Communication

    arXiv:2607.05222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Charts and images appear together throughout scientific publications, yet most computational work does not characterize their coherence. We argue that a chart, its accompanying image, and the caption that links them form a multimoda…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Aritra Dasgupta ·

    A Multimodal Reasoning Typology for Grounding Chart-Image Coherence in Science Communication

    Charts and images appear together throughout scientific publications, yet most computational work does not characterize their coherence. We argue that a chart, its accompanying image, and the caption that links them form a multimodal unit, and that the inferential work required t…