cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use PlantInquiryVQA, please cite the paper."
title: "Thinking Like a Botanist: Challenging Multimodal Language Models with Intent-Driven Chain-of-Inquiry"
authors:
  - family-names: Sakib
    given-names: Syed Nazmus
    affiliation: "Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka"
  - family-names: Haque
    given-names: Nafiul
    affiliation: "Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka"
  - family-names: Amin
    given-names: Shahrear Bin
    affiliation: "Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka"
  - family-names: Abdullah
    given-names: Hasan Muhammad
    affiliation: "Department of Agronomy, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University"
  - family-names: Hasan
    given-names: Md Mehedi
    affiliation: "Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka"
  - family-names: Hossain
    given-names: Mohammad Zabed
    affiliation: "Department of Botany, University of Dhaka"
  - family-names: Arman
    given-names: Shifat E.
    affiliation: "Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka"
year: 2026
conference:
  name: "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026"
keywords:
  - "plant disease diagnosis"
  - "visual question answering"
  - "multi-turn VQA"
  - "chain-of-inquiry"
  - "multimodal benchmark"