We investigate grounded sentence representations, where we train a sentence encoder to predict the image features of a given captioni.e., we try to "imagine" how a sentence would be depicted visually-and use the resultant features as sentence representations. We examine the quality of the learned representations on a variety of standard sentence representation quality benchmarks, showing improved performance for grounded models over non-grounded ones. In addition, we thoroughly analyze the

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... t to which grounding contributes to improved performance, and show that the system also learns improved word embeddings.