***YesBut***: A High-Quality Annotated Multimodal Dataset for evaluating Satire Comprehension capability of Vision-Language Models

Abhilash Nandy, Yash Agarwal, Ashish Patwa, Millon Das, Aman Bansal, Ankit Raj, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly


Abstract
Understanding satire and humor is a challenging task for even current Vision-Language models. In this paper, we propose the challenging tasks of Satirical Image Detection (detecting whether an image is satirical), Understanding (generating the reason behind the image being satirical), and Completion (given one half of the image, selecting the other half from 2 given options, such that the complete image is satirical) and release a high-quality dataset ***YesBut***, consisting of 2547 images, 1084 satirical and 1463 non-satirical, containing different artistic styles, to evaluate those tasks. Each satirical image in the dataset depicts a normal scenario, along with a conflicting scenario which is funny or ironic. Despite the success of current Vision-Language Models on multimodal tasks such as Visual QA and Image Captioning, our benchmarking experiments show that such models perform poorly on the proposed tasks on the ***YesBut*** Dataset in Zero-Shot Settings w.r.t both automated as well as human evaluation. Additionally, we release a dataset of 119 real, satirical photographs for further research.
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2024.emnlp-main.937
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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Abhilash Nandy, Yash Agarwal, Ashish Patwa, Millon Das, Aman Bansal, Ankit Raj, Pawan Goyal, and Niloy Ganguly. 2024. ***YesBut***: A High-Quality Annotated Multimodal Dataset for evaluating Satire Comprehension capability of Vision-Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 16878–16895, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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YesBut: A High-Quality Annotated Multimodal Dataset for evaluating Satire Comprehension capability of Vision-Language Models (Nandy et al., EMNLP 2024)
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