about
Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper) (arxiv.org)
2 points by jonbaer on Jun 14, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A new dataset collects sarcastic and non-sarcastic lines from TV shows, pairing each clip's words, tone and face with the earlier dialogue so computers can learn sarcasm from several cues at once. Using all cues together cut the error rate by up to 12.9% in F-score versus any single cue alone.

Abstract

Sarcasm is often expressed through several verbal and non-verbal cues, e.g., a change of tone, overemphasis in a word, a drawn-out syllable, or a straight looking face. Most of the recent work in sarcasm detection has been carried out on textual data. In this paper, we argue that incorporating multimodal cues can improve the automatic classification of sarcasm. As a first step towards enabling the development of multimodal approaches for sarcasm detection, we propose a new sarcasm dataset, Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Dataset (MUStARD), compiled from popular TV shows. MUStARD consists of audiovisual utterances annotated with sarcasm labels. Each utterance is accompanied by its context of historical utterances in the dialogue, which provides additional information on the scenario where the utterance occurs. Our initial results show that the use of multimodal information can reduce the relative error rate of sarcasm detection by up to 12.9% in F-score when compared to the use of individual modalities. The full dataset is publicly available for use at https://github.com/soujanyaporia/MUStARD

Santiago Castro, Devamanyu Hazarika, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
arXiv:1906.01815 · cs.CL, cs.CV · submitted Jun 5, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted at ACL 2019

add comment on HN