Towards Multimodal Prediction of Spontaneous Humour: A Novel Dataset and First Results

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Hauptverfasser: Christ, Lukas, Amiriparian, Shahin, Kathan, Alexander, Müller, Niklas, König, Andreas, Schuller, Björn W.
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author Christ, Lukas
Amiriparian, Shahin
Kathan, Alexander
Müller, Niklas
König, Andreas
Schuller, Björn W.
author_facet Christ, Lukas
Amiriparian, Shahin
Kathan, Alexander
Müller, Niklas
König, Andreas
Schuller, Björn W.
contents Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of humor detection have been exclusively based on staged data, making them inadequate for "real-world" applications. We contribute to addressing this deficiency by introducing the novel Passau-Spontaneous Football Coach Humor (Passau-SFCH) dataset, comprising about 11 hours of recordings. The Passau-SFCH dataset is annotated for the presence of humor and its dimensions (sentiment and direction) as proposed in Martin's Humor Style Questionnaire. We conduct a series of experiments employing pretrained Transformers, convolutional neural networks, and expert-designed features. The performance of each modality (text, audio, video) for spontaneous humor recognition is analyzed and their complementarity is investigated. Our findings suggest that for the automatic analysis of humor and its sentiment, facial expressions are most promising, while humor direction can be best modeled via text-based features. Further, we experiment with different multimodal approaches to humor recognition, including decision-level fusion and MulT, a multimodal Transformer approach. In this context, we propose a novel multimodal architecture that yields the best overall results. Finally, we make our code publicly available at https://www.github.com/lc0197/passau-sfch. The Passau-SFCH dataset is available upon request.
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spellingShingle Towards Multimodal Prediction of Spontaneous Humour: A Novel Dataset and First Results
Christ, Lukas
Amiriparian, Shahin
Kathan, Alexander
Müller, Niklas
König, Andreas
Schuller, Björn W.
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of humor detection have been exclusively based on staged data, making them inadequate for "real-world" applications. We contribute to addressing this deficiency by introducing the novel Passau-Spontaneous Football Coach Humor (Passau-SFCH) dataset, comprising about 11 hours of recordings. The Passau-SFCH dataset is annotated for the presence of humor and its dimensions (sentiment and direction) as proposed in Martin's Humor Style Questionnaire. We conduct a series of experiments employing pretrained Transformers, convolutional neural networks, and expert-designed features. The performance of each modality (text, audio, video) for spontaneous humor recognition is analyzed and their complementarity is investigated. Our findings suggest that for the automatic analysis of humor and its sentiment, facial expressions are most promising, while humor direction can be best modeled via text-based features. Further, we experiment with different multimodal approaches to humor recognition, including decision-level fusion and MulT, a multimodal Transformer approach. In this context, we propose a novel multimodal architecture that yields the best overall results. Finally, we make our code publicly available at https://www.github.com/lc0197/passau-sfch. The Passau-SFCH dataset is available upon request.
title Towards Multimodal Prediction of Spontaneous Humour: A Novel Dataset and First Results
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14272